Notably:

  > here in Switzerland

▲ daemonologist 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I admit I snorted when that was mentioned. It's frequently ranked as the most desirable place to live on earth.

Not to say the message of the article is completely without merit - there are things to see and do almost everywhere. But if I just get in the car and start driving I will 95% of the time find only strip malls and cornfields. Perhaps a suburban park with some trees.

	▲	qurren 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Switzerland is not unique in that aspect. Pick any mountainous, desert, or coastal part of the world and you are guaranteed scenery for ~95% of the drive. Pick any historic part of the world and you are guaranteed nice-looking buildings anywhere you walk. A sizeable fraction of the world fits into either of the above. Yeah, if you live in cornfields and strip malls, you aren't going to find much interesting. But in fact, most of the world isn't like that. Arguably the cornfields and strip malls are the minority. Throw a dart anywhere on Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Indonesia, Norway, China, India, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Argentina, Namibia, the southwestern US, northwestern US, or Mexico. You'll find lots of interesting things wherever your dart landed. These aren't very cherry-picked countries, I just named a few off the top of my head that come to mind where the "dart anyhere is interesting" is true. My point is that the world is full of "Switzerlands".

▲ mastermedo 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was looking for this comment. I share a similar experience. Everywhere I lived (Croatia, Poland, Switzerland, ...) it felt like there was infinite magical locations within 1-2h drive with a lot of natural variety (ocean, lakes, ridges, forests, islands).

I'm not so confident that would be true all over the world. Some places I've spent 3-4 weeks in the nature I got bored from the lack of diversity. Can only stare into dirt and sand for so long.

▲ ngruhn 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

might as well be in Skyrim