Incredible stats. “I think that 2021 is pretty normal in terms of flying once every 9.4 days for an average person… Since then, I have averaged 2.7 nights per place”

From her case against travel

• Novelty for novelty’s sake is addictive and makes one insufferable.
• You lose the notion of a vacation, and need to seek this in more deranged ways.
• One develops a bias towards moving, instead of a bias towards action. Moving is the most passive thing that feels active.
• One is left with a very limited amount of ability to do high-functioning tasks, like making consequential decisions.
• There are diminishing returns to awe.

• Most foreign things are romanticised to be better, they are not actually better. A prime example of this is with food, where the best ingredients are no longer consumed where they are produced

this one reminded me of a tweet about the best restaurants of a cuisine always being in another country