• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    Traveling to a foreign country.

    I haven’t done as much as a millionaire traveler but I have touched 30 countries and directly explored about 20 of them. I got to see wealthy first world Europe, as well as Morocco, Egypt, South America in Peru and a whole bunch of southeast Asia and India and Sri Lanka. Not to mention road trips in Canada and parts of the US west coast and east coast.

    I got to see a lot of dirt poor slums and really rough places.

    I don’t drink nor do I do drugs because I’m in recovery myself (30 years sober) … and what I discovered is that once you remove any and all illegal behavior, drugs and alcohol, the majority of people everywhere in the world are decent people like you and me who are just trying to get by. Sure they want your money and some people are desperate but touristic places usually attract seedy people anyway. Regular common people away from tourist places are just getting by and they really don’t care who you are.

    This is all within the realm of being realistic too … you don’t go wandering down a lonely alleyway on your own or go into a dark sleazy noisy bar. I’m just saying that as long as you are safe and others are safe, people the world over are no different than you and me.