Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> andrel wrote:
> 
>>> Interesting. IME, "travel" involves sitting in a moving vehicle for 
>>> hours feeling bored and uncomfortable. And let's put it this way: I 
>>> can't interact with people who speak my own language. How am I 
>>> supposed to get anywhere with people who don't even know what I'm 
>>> saying?
>>>
>> One of the great things of being abroad is that they don't know you 
>> have problems interacting. They'll put it down to you being a 
>> foreigner and will be much more responsive than the people around you 
>> who know how a ordinary member of society should behave.
> 
> You know what? It might just be the whole "the grass is greener" trip, 
> but it certainly seems that the people in Switzerland were a lot more 
> friendly than the people over here. Maybe they just take customer 
> service more seriously, IDK...
You know what? The Swiss visiting your home town will feel the same.
> 
>>> (I was about to add "and probably don't like me", but then I 
>>> remembered that that's normal anyway...)
>>
>> You know what? I guess quite a lot of people here might like you when 
>> you would meet them IRL. Unlikely of course as you don't travel and 
>> most of us only go to interesting places when given a choice.
> 
> The thing about the Internet... the people you meet are almost 
> guaranteed to live really far away. Ah well!
> 
That mainly depends on how you use it. If you participate in an 
international forum with relative few members that may be right. 
Subscribe to a local gay community website and the result may be different.

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