• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    Your individualism. Of course I’m aware of the huge downsides, but my understanding is that personal freedom has been a vanishing rare thing in human history. As I see it, some very odd circumstances (puritans and the frontier) generated the USA, which morphed into something even weirder still: a libertarian superpower. Which then, in extremis, saved the rest of us from authoritarianism of both right and left. Probably temporarily. I predict that after it all collapses, and with better hindsight, we’ll appreciate the USA more than we do today.

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      Totally worth it. The ones you’ve actually heard of though are too popular and generally require a reservation and waiting to visit. But there are a LOT of National Parks that are “less popular” that are just as amazing that don’t require reservations or possibly even entrance fees.

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        Sure. Oftentimes it’s the not so popular places that have their own charm. And I mean the USA is kind of a big place 😆 There are lots of very different experiences to choose from.

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      Don’t forget about the National Monuments! They’re not sculptures etc, but cool stuff like walls of dinosaur bones and canyons!

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    The national parks. I visited Yosemite Valley two years ago and it was amazing. We don’t have acces to nature in this scale in central europe.

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      I’m an American but I remember talking to a gentleman from Belgium years ago while visiting Muir Woods. He said something along the lines of, “You all have some of the best national parks in the world. You should be very proud of them.”

      That conversation gave me a new appreciation for our national parks. We are fortunate to have some pretty amazing scenery in the US.

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    Never been, but american culture. Music, film, food. Americans seem to be really good at small talk and usually pleasant to meet when I’m on holidays.

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    The shopping! You can’t beat prices at a department store on clothing on a long weekend with a coupon for 25% off everything. I don’t bother clothes shopping in Canada at all, I save my US cash and go on Black Saturday, where the prices are pretty much as good as Black Friday and not as crazy, or on Memorial Day weekend and come away with reams of clothes and shoes for under 500 dollars. And somehow they always have your size,unlike Canadian stores which tend to be picked over as hell, and I’ve never had to have pants shortened from the US. I like clothes shopping a whole lot.

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    Movies/TV Show.

    Sure, with the 75 different steaming services all trying to produce content the majority is horseshit, but even if just around 15% is decent, that’s still more decent content than the output of entire other country’s film industries.