Is travel a complete waste of time?

[El Rizzidente]

@RawJudah I've done a fair bit of traveling in my life, and others might disagree- devoting a life to travel is a waste of time if you're doing the standard "take my 2 weeks of work vacation to go to italy" or that kind of nonsense. You eventually come to realize that any of these "coveted" vacations spots end up being the same (structurally): a main party street, a few contrived, local tourist spots that the city builds or advertises, and COUNTLESS npc tourists and gravitate to these tourists spots like fruit flies toward rotting fruit.

NOW, if you move to different parts of the world and IMMERSE yourself in different cities (hopefully culturally different to your own), that is absolutely worth. That enriches you in a way that spending 2 weeks in Paris or Italy never will (in fact, these vacations make you feel a bit empty, both spiritually and in your wallet......)

[RawJudah]

11 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

What is it that makes you think you are wasting your life? What is the alternative? What are the values you are striving towards?

Well like I said - I go to work, I come home, I eat, I go to bed. That’s shit isn’t it? And here I am on the actualized.org forum talking to people who aren’t doing that and are living amazing lifestyles (I’m guessing). I can’t think of a business, I don’t bang hot chicks at the weekend, I don’t really know what my values are! At the moment I kind of just exist, not really knowing what to do. And would my values be mine anyway? It seems like everyone on here has the same values, and not anything that originally came from them.

[RawJudah]

@El Rizzidente I totally get that. Having a crap holiday is what most people do, and being a tourist isn’t worth it. A lot of those touristy countries are a gold mine for the gullible. 
Maybe I should move to a different country. I’ve been in the UK all my life and only had the typical holidays here and there. But it seems to me like people eventually settle in their home country and stay put until they die. 
In the meantime my friends are avoiding settling down but also having such a fun time travelling the world and getting out there.