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[jajdude]

It didn't occur to me to mention it before as I hadn't realized it at the time of my earlier posts. But part of the reason I find it "freaky" is that I am really quite introverted. And now where I am living I spend all week in a quiet uncrowded place usually keeping to myself. So just getting out with the "cabin fever" into the crowds is enough to hit the senses a bit. My introverted- from -a- small -town -self gets hit with all that stimuli, crowds, females, noise, actual good places to eat, etc...

[Yaya]

[jajdude]

Well I have visited a few cities. Lived a year in Taipei, and a few months near Bangkok, and spent time in the 3 main Canadian cities. Have been to Hong Kong, big and a bit freaky. Been to Japan and Malaysia too. Maybe sometimes I'm just easily freaked out? It doesn't happen all the time, it was just a mood on that particular day that recurs sometimes. I lived for over 2 years in Seoul before. It didn't always seem "freaky" (overusing that word but anyway...) but often enough it did. I just wonder why I never seem to get entirely used to this place?

Anyway it also keeps things a bit interesting.... not necessarily a bad thing. If you can still find interest in familiar things I think that is good thing.

[Keepongoing]

We call them K mart women amd yes there are K mart men as well.

I am American and if you ever go to a bus station you must conclude that America is a bit weird toooo

[Cuatemoc]

I lived in rural West Kansas for two years, and I have to bear witness that Seoul is much less freaky than Kansas. Proportionate to the population, way fewer people here are in direct contact with aliens via shortwave radio. Less drugs here (for me and them), too.

[g-ese]

Weird is going back to America after being in Asia. I have been gone 2 years and could not begin to imagine the culture shock I will go through going back, especially since I left so soon after 9-11. A few years ago I left and came back and it was really shocking for me. I saw my own country from the perspective of an outsider for the first time in my life. Everything was shinier, bigger, wider, and the people... Eventually I settled down, but couldn't explain my experiences in Asia to people back home. It was like being stuck between two worlds.

[jajdude]

g-ese...

I think a lot of us know about that one. A year ago I visited my brother in Montreal. It was my first visit to Canada in 5 years. Though I had been to other countries in Asia, it was a good bit different. Number one was the lack of people! And this is the second biggest city in Canada. Just a few people, a few cars here and there, almost empty most places most of the time! Now my home province (NFLD.) is even emptier! That should be fun. I hope to get back in December for a visit. Not to mention food, language and just being an unnoticed white character, the lack of crowdedness is strange when you get used to the congestion of Korea and other parts of Asia. Unless perhaps you spend all your time in the sticks?

[metalhead]

I'd say Seoul is uniform, not freaky.

[Fallacy]

More thread resurrection is freaky. This made me laugh, though:

[chellovek]

Sheltered small-town boy in "the wider world isn't like back home" shocker

[sligo]

I think this is a response to the "This forum is dying" thread. Revival doen not equal resurrection!

[creeper1]

Not sure a white guy in Seoul is still stare worthy.

Probably the interest in English remains very strong.

[Weigookin74]