These people never answer this question, and if they do, they always swear they never felt danger at any point, whatsoever, in any location anywhere in the globe. It’s asinine. I can easily walk 5 miles in several directions and be in some incredibly dangerous / hostile neighborhoods and I live in a very safe immediate area in a nice town in the US.
I’ve had sketchy as hell scenarios just in general vacations in my life, going down a weird road in the Dominican Republic, or Nicaragua, etc. And that’s just from general wandering outside the beaten tourist path. And that’s ok. That’s life. Life’s pretty grim and volatile. It’s also great. And everything in between. That’s called reality.
But these travel-as-a-lifestyle promoters are individual businesses unto themselves, and part of that business is selling the mystique at all costs, and not upsetting locals from any area they passed through, because their target customer is ‘everyone’, and you can’t be a truly authentic and honest person while also being a business that needs to make money. You certainly can’t promote yourself onto 140 different speaking appearances by giving an honest account about something negative you experienced.
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These people never answer this question, and if they do, they always swear they never felt danger at any point, whatsoever, in any location anywhere in the globe. It’s asinine. I can easily walk 5 miles in several directions and be in some incredibly dangerous / hostile neighborhoods and I live in a very safe immediate area in a nice town in the US.
I’ve had sketchy as hell scenarios just in general vacations in my life, going down a weird road in the Dominican Republic, or Nicaragua, etc. And that’s just from general wandering outside the beaten tourist path. And that’s ok. That’s life. Life’s pretty grim and volatile. It’s also great. And everything in between. That’s called reality.
But these travel-as-a-lifestyle promoters are individual businesses unto themselves, and part of that business is selling the mystique at all costs, and not upsetting locals from any area they passed through, because their target customer is ‘everyone’, and you can’t be a truly authentic and honest person while also being a business that needs to make money. You certainly can’t promote yourself onto 140 different speaking appearances by giving an honest account about something negative you experienced.
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