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jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

I think before ever coming over here the whole deal seemed exotic. But after a while ya get used to a place, and it isn't so exotic anymore.

So perhaps it only the unmet places that seem exotic because one knows nothing of them.

What do you think would be an exotic place in Asia?

(other continents?)

posco's trumpet · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: Beneath the Underdog

There are thousands of exotic dancers in Pattaya. Neutral

Seriously -- exotica is in the mind. Even without pharmaceutical enhancement, a walk around the block can be an unparalleled adventure.

edgellskiuk · Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Location: Seoul

jajaude,

I think the point you made of getting used to a place is very valid. Whenever I travel to Vietnam it seems exotic, but if my company relocates me there I am sure it will lose something.

I feel it is because after a while normal life begins again and routine sets in. Korea is my third relocation and each place seemed exotic at first, then just became home.

Regards
S

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

When I first got here, I thought that Korea was a heck of a lot like the places I've lived in the States, just with the signs in a different language. What was really funny was that I got here in October and it didn't occur to me until someone mentioned to me in January, that I was living in Asia. For some reason, Asia does hold this mystical connotation in my mind, but Korea was so familiar to me, even the first week, that it didn't occur to me that Korea was in Asia.

Apple Scruff · Joined: 29 Oct 2003

Anyone else think "Everybody Loves Raymond" sucks?

The wife's boobs are fake, though, so that's cool.

Paji eh Wong · Joined: 03 Jun 2003

Exotic is shorthand for romantic.

kiwiboy_nz_99 · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...

Apple Scruff · Joined: 29 Oct 2003

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Perhaps some of the better travelled among us can speak of how exotic or not places in South/Central America or Africa might be?

Never having been, they do sound interesting from afar.

I don't know about Europe either, but somehow it doesn't sound exotic. Not the right word, perhaps because it's mostly more white people?
But it does sound interesting for a large mix of cultures in a small continent. Then again, many places in Europe may be quite exotic. I wouldn't really know.

I am ever curious though, for whoever likes to share their stories of time in far-off lands!