Francis wrote:georgeob1 wrote:I have also travelled a lot as a civilian and haven't found the difference to be great.
Well, but you are not a homebody from the cozy suburbs of NYC, George...
I heard someone say NYC? The thing about being from NYC is in many cases, I believe, one's tastes may be jaded for many things that other people, from other places, find most interesting in urban environments.
The other people in the San Francisco tour bus were very impressed by the tour guide explaining the cost of the new condominiums. This was the early 1970's and the condominiums were $60,000. This does not impress most New Yorkers, but it did impress a number of people on the tour bus.
Some times only nature impresses many New Yorkers, in my opinion, since that is what is missing in NYC, other than Central Park, and that is all managed nature.
And then there is this thing about seeing other people, or meeting other people. As a New Yorker, I have too many people to see every day just to go shopping for food. And, from all over the world. I have this belief that the best and brightest from around the world make it to New York if they can. In effect, New Yorkers get to see the cream of humanity from around the world. And, I should want to travel?
I don't understand why some people have a wanderlust? I would have to be stupid, or an ingrate, to think that there are other parts of the world that are worth visiting, knowing my grandparents had to struggle to survive in the New World 125 years ago. My family therefore avoided the dementia of WWI, the dementia of WWII and both European post world war periods of unemployment. There were male family members in the military for both wars, but the women and children lived peacefully in the United States.
Actually, the entire United States is cozy, with a lot of elbow room to boot.