Popular places you have no desire to visit

[CD Boogie]

I've never been to Los Angeles, and I really have no desire to go. I've been to California -- to Coachella -- but that's been the extent of my Cali exposure. LA never comes to mind as a place I want to visit. I've been to Hawaii, I've been to Paris, Ireland, Italy, Amsterdam. I've lived in London, Nashville, Richmond, Aspen, Connecticut...but I have no designs on ever visiting LA. I don't have an aversion to it, I just have no interest in that scene or what I perceive of it.

So that's one place.

2) The Holy Land. No thanks. I don't think I'd be able to relax enough to enjoy it.

3) India. Smelly, hot and dirty. That's all I picture. Oh, and people stacked on top of trains. I supposed if you airlifted me to see the Taj Majal, that'd be cool. Otherwise, not so much.

4) The new Yankee Stadium. Overpriced and gilded bull****.

I realize such attitudes come off as prejudiced, which they are; but you have to make informed decisions about how you vacation or spend your leisure time. And what I've been informed of these locations, well, I don't wanna go.

So, what are some popular places you have no desire to visit?

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

1) Anyplace in California other than the San Francisco area.

2) Hawaii

3) Boston

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I'll be at the new Yankee Stadium in a couple weeks. I'm finding even the cheap seats ate expensive.

Is Miami popular? Don't care to go there. Been to enough other places to know I'm not going to find enough different there to make it worth putting up with that heat.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Great call on LA. There are infinitely better cities.

My wife really would like to see Egypt and China but both make me nervous. Egypt because of tensions and China because of the language and food. I'm probably irrational about China but I have anxiety. Same with Egypt. I'm sure it's safe enough if you know where to go but still anxious.

 

[CD Boogie]

1) Anyplace in California other than the San Francisco area.

2) Hawaii

3) Boston

The jet lag after getting back from Hawaii was brutal and lasted several days, so bad in fact that my ex and I both agreed that we wished we hadn't gone.

 

[ChrisLong]

Just an idle memory. When I covered baseball, the writers used to exchange opinions on their best/worst cities on the road. I live in Southern California and wouldn't live anywhere else. But as a visitor, downtown L.A. had to be the worst. Anywhere else in L.A. would be great, but not downtown.
One guy -- might have been Kenny Hand from Texas -- said he loved coming to L.A. So why do you love it? He said, last time he rented a Corvette, drove through Santa Monica and took PCH all the way to Santa Barbara. Proved my point.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Any tourist spot in Western Europe. I don't want to spend my time in lines with a bunch of other foreigners.

 

[MTM]

I don't know if this counts since I've been there numerous times, but I don't care to ever go to Disneyland again.

Too crowded, too expensive and the Happiest Place of Earth is a misnomer because anyone there older than 10 is miserable.

 

[Spartan Squad]

One guy -- might have been Kenny Hand from Texas -- said he loved coming to L.A. So why do you love it? He said, last time he rented a Corvette, drove through Santa Monica and took PCH all the way to Santa Barbara. Proved my point.

So he loved LA because he could leave LA? Sounds about right.

 

[jlee]

LA is a good one.

Add San Francisco and San Diego for me. All three just sound like places you spend money to do things a little differently than at home.

 

[Roscablo]

The jet lag after getting back from Hawaii was brutal and lasted several days, so bad in fact that my ex and I both agreed that we wished we hadn't gone.

My wife has several conferences a year she could attend in Hawaii and she loves it there, has been several times without me. Always trying to get us to go, with the conferences as an excuse. I've never been super interested. Finally got me there this past spring. While I didn't hate it, I'm honestly just not a tropical/beach person and I could take it or leave it. I never got used to the time change while there, which meant weird sleeping and eating times, and I didn't love that (actually did OK getting back, surprisingly). She already found another conference there in October and having just been there and not being in love with it plus a busy summer, I just said no. I think she thinks I'm nuts and then I question myself when everyone else seems to love it so much. But just not for me overall.

 

[HC]

I have no desire to go anywhere hot .... no tropical paradise for me. My dream vacation would be to finally travel to Scandinavia (especially Sweden) and see the northern lights.

 

[BadgerBeer]

I agree on LA. I have no interest in going to any all inclusive beach type place. Hawaii looks pretty but it would be way, way down any travel list. I have no interest in visiting any Asian country as I don't love the food and the art and history isn't anything I care about. If I never visit Florida I will consider my life successful on some level. I have been to Vegas a couple of times but that was for summer basketball when I was coaching HS. I would return if I had a reason and maybe even just to go for a couple days but I don't gamble and I can't drink all day and night for 5 days like I used to so it doesn't seem that fun anymore. New Orleans was never high on my list as it seems dirty and sleazy but the food keeps calling me and we are getting more and more into live music the last few years so I anticipate we will visit soon (so perhaps some of these other spots will eventually be moved from the **** list to the visit list).

 

[typefitter]

The jet lag after getting back from Hawaii was brutal and lasted several days, so bad in fact that my ex and I both agreed that we wished we hadn't gone.

The most jet lagged I have ever been was in Hawaii. I was in South Africa for work. Then I had to go to Hawaii for work. The flight from Johannesburg to Atlanta was, at least at the time, the longest commercial flight in the world: 17 hours. Then home for an overnight, then a long-ass flight to Hawaii. Which is exactly twelve hours ahead (or behind? I have no idea) of South Africa. Day for night, and night for day. I was delirious. I'm not sure I was right again for a month.

 

[typefitter]

On the subject at hand: I will never return to Brazil. I have never hated a country more. I've since turned down work there several times. Nope. Not going back.

Can't think of many other places I wouldn't go.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Spent a few days in Hawaii on the way from three-plus years in the Far East as a young dude.

Would love to go back ... maybe see what the islands not named Oahu are like.

Never understood the fascination with Florida. Other than seeing the Kennedy Space Center and a little bit of Disney, it was eight months of determining that I'm not obsessed with going back.

 

[Flip Wilson]

The most jet lagged I have ever been was in Hawaii. I was in South Africa for work. Then I had to go to Hawaii for work. The flight from Johannesburg to Atlanta was, at least at the time, the longest commercial flight in the world: 17 hours. Then home for an overnight, then a long-ass flight to Hawaii. Which is exactly twelve hours ahead (or behind? I have no idea) of South Africa. Day for night, and night for day. I was delirious. I'm not sure I was right again for a month.

Seventeen hours on a plane sounds like hell for me.

 

[typefitter]

Seventeen hours on a plane sounds like hell for me.

On the way there, I had a middle seat. Now I can do anything. I'm bulletproof.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I have been to and liked most of the places cited here. Haven't been to China, love to go. The one thing I've never been interested in as a traveler isn't a place, it's a mode of travel. Can't imagine ever being on a cruise ship. Thousands of strangers you can't avoid. Also, my parents went on several cruises in their retirement and got real sick both times. Hardly an endorsement.

 

[CD Boogie]

On the subject at hand: I will never return to Brazil. I have never hated a country more. I've since turned down work there several times. Nope. Not going back.

Can't think of many other places I wouldn't go.

What did you dislike so much?