Timeline for How to systematically find a place to go to for newbies
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| May 7, 2012 at 4:35 | comment | added | Rincewind42 | So what about Johannesburg, but hey that's not a country so it's irrelevant to the process described. South Africa might get cut for other reasons but many great places are going of the cutting room floor for trivial reasons because you only get to choose 1 at a time. Under "S" you also have Sweeden, Switzerland, Singapore, South Korea, etc. The game only allows you to choose on "S" so which is it going to be? Well well drop Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Syria straight off because they are not safe. | |
| May 5, 2012 at 21:08 | comment | added | Mark Mayo | I read what you wrote. I gave warzone as a single example of unsafe, I also mentioned Johannesburg which is often cited as the most crime-ridden city in the world. However, thousand of tourists fly into there every month in order to go to Kruger National Park - the biggest game reserve in the world. It's still 'safe', you just avoid the slums and squatter camps and don't go wandering around at night. And as a tourist, South Africa is one of the most enjoyable and beautiful places to visit and it'd be a shame to see it on the 'cutting room floor' merely because of a crime statistic. | |
| May 5, 2012 at 14:17 | comment | added | Rincewind42 | @Mark Mayo read what I wrote. I didn't say anything about war-zones. I said half are unsafe. Unsafe includes drugs, prostitution, crime, terrorists, poor sanitation, disease, famine/drought, natural disasters, wide animals, geographical obstacles, political instability and so on. Yes the best bits of Afghanistan may be better than the worst bits of New York but I really wouldn't recommend either of them given the concept of systematically finding the best places to visit. But NYC's bad parts, and Afghanistan are first on the cutting room floor as there are obviously better alternatives. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 10:22 | comment | added | Mark Mayo | On the other hand, I do like the darts approach, never tried that and actually done it. I use solar eclipses for that - let them dictate where I go. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 10:21 | comment | added | Mark Mayo | half are unsafe? I query that. Warzones, sure, but even parts of Afghanistan (the Wakhan corridor) are just fine to visit. Areas of New York or Johannesburg would be more dangerous. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 6:35 | history | answered | Rincewind42 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |