| ▲ | epgui a day ago |
| Currently as a Canadian there are probably only four or five countries I really do not want to travel to. In no particular order: North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United States. |
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| ▲ | don_neufeld a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Totally get it. My parents (Canadian) won’t visit, and haven’t since Trump’s first term. Keep in mind these are people who were educated in the US (Cornell, RPI, Florida State), and as kids, we used to spend at least a month a year in the US on vacation with their college friends. So not historically haters. Hell, I just remembered as a kid I spent a whole summer in Chicago. IIRC We stayed in student housing while my dad finished his book (https://archive.org/details/Inside_Commodore_Dos_1984_Datamo...). Hottest summer of my life and no AC anywhere to be seen. |
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| ▲ | ragazzina a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What is your main source of information about Iran? |
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| ▲ | epgui 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don’t have any problem with Iranians. If you’re meaning to defend the regime you’re on the wrong side of History my friend. |
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| ▲ | bluedino a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why, exactly? |
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| ▲ | epgui 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Unpredictable, inconsistent, arbitrary and/or capricious law and border enforcement. It’s already sketchy enough going through borders when you have very little rights. When what rights people have are not respected, it makes it even scarier. | |
| ▲ | roxolotl a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Did you read the article? Not wanting to visit countries where secret police are rounding people up, regardless of citizenship, seems like a reasonable opinion. | | |
| ▲ | khannn a day ago | parent | next [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | roxolotl a day ago | parent [-] | | Some of the allegations around the Canadian assisted suicides are absolutely indefensible and heinous but a tourist isn’t likely to encounter it. Even if you support the actions by the Trump administration, honestly especially so given the assertion is the cities are dangerous, it seems reasonable as a tourist to want to avoid countries, like the US, where there are active operations by military and paramilitary forces. EDIT to increase clarity. | | |
| ▲ | kasey_junk a day ago | parent [-] | | ICE agents took people from normal activities (ie not protests) from Grant park (the park in downtown with the famous bean sculpture tourists go to) recently. They are snatching people all over the city without warrants. I would not say tourists are unlikely to encounter their operations. | | |
| ▲ | khannn a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not glazing ICE by any means, but we have to be real here: the vast majority of people that are being picked up are in violation of immigration law and no amount of "No warrant" is going to change people's mind. The majority of illegal immigration in my location are people overstaying their student visas and they're getting sent back. Saw a former co-worker's wife was sent back, no I didn't snitch, but I don't feel sorry for someone who overstayed a student visa then worked under the table for a decade. | |
| ▲ | roxolotl a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yea totally agree. The comment I was responding to was clapping back about allegations of homeless individuals being pushed into assisted suicides in Canada. That’s what I meant would be unlikely to be encountered. I’ve updated my comment to make it more clear. |
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| ▲ | themafia a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | don_neufeld a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Chicago has over 50 millions tourists per year and rising. https://cdn.choosechicago.com/uploads/2025/07/Chicago-Touris... https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-sees-record-breaking-ho... Is that a lot? Well, Rome - which people the world over would consider a “tourist destination” only has 35M tourists per year. https://hotelagio.com/rome-tourism-statistics/ Even Paris is less, around 47M https://parisplaybook.com/paris-tourism-statistics/ | | |
| ▲ | themafia a day ago | parent [-] | | Those are overall visitations. There's no indication that they're vacationing or tourists. Does Chicago have more global business interests than Rome? My Mother went to Chicago every year for Emergency Room training. Was she a tourist? Or was she there because Chicago, for all it's problems, has one of the most competent and practiced set of ER doctors in the entire country? | | |
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| ▲ | testing22321 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, the US is a country of immigrants. Built by people from all over the world. There’s even a massive statue near some famous city welcoming immigrants. Are you so xenophobic you missed this? | | |
| ▲ | themafia a day ago | parent [-] | | Are you so enamored with a statue that you missed the overwhelming gang violence? Stop being simple and looking for opportunities to push your narrow politics into a conversation. Chicago is simply _not_ in good shape. Ask anyone who lives there. Ask them if these problems started with or predated Trump? Ask them if they think their problems has one wit to do with national politics. | | |
| ▲ | testing22321 a day ago | parent [-] | | Yes, many places have problems with gang violence. That has nothing at all to do with secret masked police ignoring the constitution and people getting abducted regardless of citizenship. |
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| ▲ | stackedinserter a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Thank you for sharing this valuable information. |
