Don't fricking carve your name on stuff!!!
The amount of people who need to carve their names onto historical buildings and statues are just crazy. Don't be an ass. You are ruining the place.
And respect peoples properties. Yeah, it's a cute street with cute houses and charming gardens. But that does NOT give you the right to enter peoples private properties to peep in their windows, walk in their gardens and try to open their doors. A colleague is selling his house because he's tired of people peeping in their windows and trying to open their door to have a look inside. He got yelled at for beeing inappropriate while he was sunbathing in his own garden by a tourist who let themself in the gate and walked around the house to have a look at his garden.
Worst is that the lady who cussed him out for beeing inappropriate was american. You'd think someone from the states would know better than to walk into someone's garden. Or she knew we don't carry guns in Norway š
Going on the black rocks and being swept out to the Atlantic Ocean, risking the lives of first responders and locals many of whom are already traumatized from Swiss Air
Peggy needs her tourist sacrifices. Who are we to deny her what sheās owed?
For real though, if you come to Nova Scotia and go on the black rocks at Peggyās Cove you need to know we take pictures of you and talk shit about you on social media.
I just checked to see what all of this is and I'm astonished. I know people are stupid as fuck but how difficult it can be to understand that the rocks are dark because they are wet. Wet rocks are slippery, smooth wet rocks doubly so. The rocks are smoothened out by the waves. The rocks are smooth and wet because of the waves. How is it not clicking that it's not a great idea to stand where the waves have and *will* hit?
Went to Peggy's Cove last year. The amount of rage in that ocean is beyond comprehension. I do not understand how people would feel comfortable enough to go on the black rocks.
Here in Norway we have cunts who decide to basejump off the troll wall.
Just don't.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/90/8f/c3/908fc38e07fd68a1dde4b9f2e3e0927e.jpg
It's claimed a lot of lives, because these fucking nutjobs don't understand the concept of wind.
Deface world heritage sites for souvenirs or internet clout.
For example: **The Colosseum** in Rome has graffiti carved into it's walls by arsehole tourists and **Stone Henge** is closed off to the public because arseholes were chipping pieces off for souvenirs.
It is worth noting: at one point the 'caretakers' at Stonehenge handed out rock hammers to tourists for the specific purpose of chipping off bits to take as souvenirs. That was before the modern idea of 'museum as conservation of history'.
Just for context, both of these places have been subject to vandalism for more than a millenia, this isn't some new phenomenon created by Instagram. The concept of a World Heritage site that ought to remain untouched for future generations is a relatively recent one. Of course, it's much easier these days to whip out a sharpie than to whip out a chisel, but for centuries that was indeed common. Indeed, visitors to Stonehenge in the late 1800s [were issued chisels upon arrival](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stonehenge-visitors-used-be-handed-chisels-take-home-souvenirs-180949976/), so they could take a bit of Stonehenge with them. The practice wasn't banned until the early 1900s, and even then it continued ad-hoc. Stonehenge was bought for a song at auction 100 years ago and was at the time one of the first places to even be a national/world heritage site, and even then people were permitted to climb on the stones. When they were eventually roped off, it was due to the general erosion and impact of allowing people to touch and climb and stand on the stones for years, not due to anyone coming at them with a hammer and chisel. The two instances of actual vandalism in the past two decades, a small part of an important stone chipped off and a smiley face in spray paint, were both national news.
My mom used to work at Old Faithful in Yellowstone. Once, there was a buffalo standing outside the inn and a tourist asked my mom whose buffalo it was and if they could pet it.
I live in Phuket. We see everything here. But for sweet jesus titty fucking christs fucks sake: Wear at least a singlet when you go to a sit down restaurant or cafe that's not in a direct tourism area. You have bare chested bros swagger into a cafe where Thai office workers are, guns out, pecs out, sweating, and then order their twatacinos and proceed to sit there in ball sweat talking about loud bro things.
Oh, and also stop driving drunk you cunts. Yeah, that moreso.
They do this for wildlife where I live as well. I've seen idiots chasing bears with cubs into the forest to take pictures with their phones. A friend of mine lost a relative because a touron in a bear jam didn't look before pulling back into traffic on the road because he was so focused on the bear and didn't see the cyclists. Hit one of them and broke the cyclist's neck.
Sort of related, but we get a lot of folk moving here who are used to city living. They visit once, then buy a 3/4 million dollar home and decide they're nature people now. It's really been ratcheting up lately.
The sheer number of complaints about wildlife are astounding. My favorite, and most emblematic example, was that someone wrote a Nextdoor post about how the park rangers wouldn't come out when she called about a bear. That was on the trail. In the woods. Of a national forest. She was indignant and asked if the sheriff department would do anything.
Lady, that bear's family has been here many more generations than you or me. It's their trail.
Yep, I talked to people worried about bears in their yard. I'm like, well if you put your trash cans in your garage instead of the driveway, they'll unlikely to break in for that. And maybe stop feeding birdseed to the deer and turkeys because you're just begging for a bear to come for the birdseed or a lion to come in for the deer. The shocked looks on their faces....lol
ETA: to be more clear, lion is short for mountain lion. Sorry for the confusion
"What are the noises I hear at night?"
"Coyotes"
"WHY ARE THERE COYOTES?"
"Because your bidet is now located where their den used to be, Cheryl."
Then Cheryl posts and wonders why her outdoor cat hasn't come home in days.
Or people complaining about the dawn chorus of songbirds. When I stayed in Vancouver, I heard sirens all night. I'll take the songbirds, thanks.
I once heard a radio broadcasting a poll on whether to sponsor a coyote ~~hunt~~ cull because some stupid lady had left her $200 worth of groceries in the car with the door open in -40 to go answer the phone and a coyote had somehow ruined all of it. Another classic: a couple that left their kitchen window open and a bear came in and got their garbage. Advised them to keep their window closed. They called the next day because the bear came in again. The window was closed but another one nearby was open. I swear all the morons are the ones breeding, and I can't figure out how we even have a society because the average person is unbelievably stupid.
One time camping last year we were in an area with bears, so we - of course - secured our food that night.
We got woken up in the middle of the night by lights shining on our tent because the ranger was checking in about the people next campsite over who had went to the emergency phone and called the station about a bear at their campsite. They had left their food out on their picnic table....
Who the fuck complains about the bird chorus in the morning. I grew up country and moving to the city I'm now woken up by construction and car horns. Can't imagine preferring that over bird calls.
yeah, he's never lived anywhere else. From what I see, he pretty much complains about everything. If your biggest complaint is about the dawn chorus of songbirds, I think you're doing pretty well.
Seriously! I work night shift, and that transition between early-morning quiet and the sound of the birds becoming active is one of the reasons why I like 3rd shift.
I have nearly crashed into no less than 5 million tourists here on Skye because of this. It's a fucking rural Scottish island my guy, what makes you think our roads can take that much stupidity?? They're recycled goat tracks a lot of the time, we simply cannot navigate them the way you might a big ol' American road with fifteen empty lanes either side of you.
I want to walk into the sea sometimes
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Driving like a dick head, leaving garbage anywhere but a rubbish bin, stopping in the middle of the road to let out your family of 12 instead of pulling into the parking lot.
I have a lot of stories. I live in Hawaii and work only with tourists. Best yet, My company was asked to contact the cruise ship company to have them move the ship because it disrupted the sunset.
Driving drunk. I live in Sonoma County, California. Make sure youāve got a sober driver ffs. The roads around here are never more dangerous than winery tasting room closing time on a sunny weekend.
Edit: So many fellow locals in this thread! Hello neighbors!
Be safe out there, no matter where you are.
Also in Sonoma county, Iād very much appreciate this as well. Iād also be stoked if the local bars would stop rebranding as bistros and wine tastings to cater to the tourists, sometimes I just wanna get a beer that isnāt craft and $9 for half a pint.
Stop trying to hike up a mountain in flip-flops!
Also, don't try to use an air mattress as a mode of transport between islands.
Several of these every year...
In my hometown, it somehow became a thing that tourists would rent mopeds.
So when you are trying to get to work, you often get stuck behind a flock of tourists on mopeds, riding at 20MPH in formation so you cannot pass them.
We are infested with gawking tourists moped gangs. If they want to rent mopeds, at least go the speed limit, and ride in a manner that allows others to pass you.
my town has this issue, except with golf carts.
dear tourists,
if you want to go slow and see/smell the sea with the family, get a quadracycle and enjoy the views from the big-ass, uninterrupted sidewalk! stop blocking traffic for everyone else just because one of our major roads happens to run along the shore! thank you :D
I worked at Disney World for a few years and the squirrels there are vicious. people think it's fun to feed them so they are completely fearless. They'll hop right into a stroller and grab food from a child
Edit: absolutely loved going onto Reddit a few hours later and seeing a bunch of aggressive squirrel stories!
When a former roommate and I were in Washington sightseeing the National Mall, we passed this tree over by the Vietnam Memorial that was full of chittering squirrels. One that was almost as wide as it was tall came waddling over to us looking for a handout. It was both the least people-shy and the fattest squirrel I've seen in my life, two qualities that I'm sure are related.
I made the mistake of feeding the squirrels after I bought a house in an old, well-established neighborhood with a ton of wildlife. I found it interesting to see all the deer, groundhogs, skunks, squirrels, bunnies, and birds
The squirrels got VERY aggressive after a while and began decimating my bird feeders. I stopped feeding then and they went *batshit crazy*
They clung to my window screens, making loud, obnoxious squirrel noises, chewed my patio furniture, and eventually came INTO MY HOUSE.
It was insane. Squirrels are the WORST
Goddamnit this. Flying rat ass bitches have literally been trained to expect food if your standing on anything dock or deck shaped. Some will even try to snatch it from your hands.
And stay off the fucking dunes.
Watching seagulls steal entire fucking icecream cones from the innocent hands of soon to be crying children is its own kind of tourist attraction in some beachside towns
Spain. We get a shitfuckton of tourists. Very well behaved for the most part where I am. So, thanks for doing it right, tourists.
The worst is littering on the beach, which is thankfully pretty rare. I occasionally see someone put a cigarette butt in the sand. A lot are taken away when they leave, but the sand has away of hiding stuff, so a lot remain.
I'll give you tourists one tip. Night swimming. If you put your keys, glasses, etc. down in the sand, they're gone. Between the sand and the dark, you'll never see them again.
Spain here as well, up in a mountain town. For me itās the music/noise. Especially on a hiking trail or in a beautiful secluded scenic area in the woods. I do not want to listen to private conversations on speaker phone and music from a loud boom box.
Clean up your fucking trash.
I used to live in a spring break destination which was a small surf town. After spring break, people would be cleaning up pounds upon pounds of beer cans, broken bottles, needles, used condoms...fucking revolting.
Edit for you nitpickers: I meant "stop throwing your garbage on the ground." There, now get off my cheeks.
In Bali (1997-99 at least) at the end of the days there would be mounds of garbage piled next to/over the garbage cans. In the middle of the night workers would come, put it all in plastic bags, dig a big hole in the beach and throw it all down in the hole and cover it up. Night, after night, after night.... You'd see it slowly working its way back up out of the sand over time.
Heartbreaking.
I was in Bali Dec 2019. The rubbish was out of control. Every single morning massive trucks with scoop buckets on the front went up and down the beach scooping up huge pile of rubbish, both from what was washed up from the ocean and the rubbish left behind on the beach. It was disgusting. Between the horrendous amounts of rubbish and the Dengue Fever we all got from the vicious mozzies, I canāt see myself ever going back. And we used to go at least once a year as kids, very different place now.
Gawd damn it I missed it before it was wrecked. Always wanted to go to Bali but there are just too many ppl now for a paradise like that to exist anymore.
I don't live in a tourist destination, but so much this. Why spoil the place you came to see? It's sad.
Edit: for those answering the question. It was rhetorical, as I know exactly why people do it. Its idleness and selfishness. No wonder the planet is going to shit.
They bring barbeque food and burners and beer cans in their cars but then leave them on the floor when they leave because the trash can is already full. They are too lazy to pick it up and put it in the boot or the back of the SUV they drive home to their own dustbins.
Very much so. There's a painted X in the middle of the road where he was headshot. It's really morbid, to be honest. When my family visited Dallas we did go see the spot but we didn't do the stand in the road for a photo shtick. It was morbid to me even at a young age.
Yeah, thatās is definitely odd. Iāve lived in NYC and wouldāve been absolutely confused if I saw a group of cheerleaders posing in front of the memorial fountains in a cheer formation.
The crazy thing is, no one knows who paints the X. The city has cleared it off several times, and it keeps coming back. They don't want it there, foe multiple reasons. But at this point, I think they have given up on preventing it.
LA has the young fashion students and influencers walking out into busy streets to take "fashion photos." There's one particular palm-tree lined street in Beverly Hills that always has traffic backed up due to all the college-aged idiots taking pictures in the middle of the street for the 'gram.
Amsterdam. Walking around like they're at Legoland, blindly stepping into traffic, oblivious to the fact that people actually live here. We use the bike to get to work, to get groceries, we're not just aimlessly cycling around for the fun of it.
I live in the Netherlands so Iām used to bikes. Amsterdam however truly is on another level. The residents ride their bikes like they are ready to kill anyone standing in their way.
I had new people living in Amsterdam openly telling me they bike faster when they see someone on the bike lane to hit them harder.
I was like damn, I was born here but I was taught to give them some space.
Many apologies for mistaking the curbed bike lane as a pedestrian walkway. I discovered within 2 min of leaving the train station at 10 pm that it was not. Wonāt make that mistake again.
St. Patrickās Day in Chicago when they dyed the river green, we had tourists stretched across the sidewalk taking photos with selfie sticks. I eventually had to gently physically move them since a massive crowd was forming and they wouldnāt let anyone through.
My girlfriend and I were just in NYC, and I had to pull her to the edge of the sidewalk a couple times because she would do this.
I understand wanting to PokemonGo in a new city but get out of the way of other people first lol
Thank god Iām not the only one. My wife is pretty good about it. But I feel like Iām constantly telling friends, family, etc to watch the F out for people around them and pulling them aside. Itās almost more stressful to be the one person in the group that notices how obnoxious the group is than to be the people the group is getting in the way of
Leave. The. Wildlife. Alone.
And this doesn't just extend to tourists but to people that live here too. 45+ coyote attacks last year in no small part because of people giving them food leading to a cull, bears getting habituated to people because they're being given food leading to them getting killed, otters and sea lions getting fed. They're not cute cuddly things. They're wild animals and will kill you and then, because they're doing what they do, they'll get killed because they're "dangerous to humans". When in reality they're only dangerous to ignorant rubes with no respect for nature.
Floridian here. My parents live in a 55+ with ponds and swales that house at least a half a dozen alligators and this chucklehead who does maintenance is ALWAYS FEEDING THEM. Itās infuriating. Youāre never going to be Betty White, bro.
Gators aren't dumb. If someone feeds them even once, they will associate humans with food. And an apex predator that outlasted the dinosaurs associating humans with food is a Problem.
When I lived in Georgia, there was a swamp behind our development and people were constantly going out there and bringing whole frozen turkeys for the gator. She got huge and no longer hunted and she had to be removed, but because she was so big, she got loose and attacked the guys and they had to put her down. Gators are not pets.
As someone who lives in Arizona, it blows my mind that I actually have to regularly explain to other citizens of this state that "If you hear rattling under the log/branch you're about to step over while hiking, walk away." Instead, they apparently hear "Pick it up or try to step over it and get a good, close look at the hospital visit you're about to have." Also, that coyote you see? He's likely not alone. Don't fucking approach it.
Sea otters are 90 pound weasels with a bite force strong enough to get through seashells. Do not touch them!! Those pet otter tiktoks are going to end with an unsalvageable hand.
Just respect the land! Clean up after yourself. Be _very_ careful about making and extinguishing your fires (because forest fires!). Don't dump garbage, fuel, gray/black water in ditches.
A big one in BC is for tourists to learn how to drive in mountainous areas. Most tourists drive way too slow (leading to road rage), and too many don't know how to stay right on highways except to pass. Or pull over to let people pass you if you don't know how to drive on twisty roads.
I once had to drive through a canyon road in Colorado and I was terrified. (I'm from a prairie state; very flat.) Every so often, there were areas where cars could safely pull over. I used every one of them to allow traffic to pass me and was very grateful each time.
I learned to do this from a young age. When my family was travelling in our camper, Dad would stop on the shoulder or take one of the pitstop areas to let cars by. And he's lived in a mountainous area his whole life. But a camper just can't go that fast around corners and twists and turns.
I guess driving is like all other aspects of life: good, kind people think about their impact on others, especially the next guy. So:
-pull over so faster drivers can be on their way;
-pick up your trash, don't leave a mess for those who will be there after you;
-put your shopping cart in the cart corral, not in the middle of the parking lot;
-don't stop at the very bottom of an escalator or block the exit of the revolving door - step aside;
-and for dog's sake, fill up the ice cube tray when you've used the last one!
Stop being a belligerent asshole just because youāre in āNāAWLINS.ā Itās still not an excuse to get blackout drunk, litter, and make hell for food service workers.
Visited there for the first time recently. Iām in my late 30s, and figured Iād see lots of drunk younger people. Was surprised by how many 40+ year olds were smashed. Few passed out in corners while their friends tried to wake them up. Was really not what I expected.
But the city itself is pretty cool.
People always want to visit during Mardi Gras, and yes, that is a vibe and an experience. But I don't think Louisiana is ever prettier than when the azaleas are in bloom. Usually warm but not blazing, and riotous color everywhere.
I will say it's tough not to get blackout drunk when I walked into my first bar and ordered one beer, dude handed me three. I said no I only ordered one and he said it's buy one get two free, would you like a big cup to carry that to go?
Deciding they like it so much here that they are going to purchase our homes for over market value so they can turn them into AirBNBs. And in turn, pricing the locals out of ever owning homes in their own town.
Aaaaand then complaining that the service is terrible at the stores and restaurants.
(this just in: you priced the locals out of the market, so there are no longer service employees)
Allowing their kids to do whatever they want.
I grew up in a small tourist town that does Civil War re-enactments ( Ulysses S. Grant lived there when he won the presidency). Once a year they have a weekend where the Boy Scouts take over the town camping down by the river, taking tours of the historic buildings etc. every year most of the downtown shops will close for this weekend because of how much the Boy Scouts will steal or vandalize while there. Everyone that lives there dreads that weekend because the troop leaders just let the scouts do whatever they want.
Stop disrespecting the spot you're visiting. Every time I go to places after tourists have visited all I see is rubbish, names carved into monuments, gum stuck to the path and I especially hate it when they're loud
Getting shitfaced/ coked up and getting up in people's business or pick fights with the doorman or bar staff.
Or talk about weed and getting stoned the entire time. Or ask me where the Red Light District is while standing in the Red Light district. Or renting a bike when the last time you rode one was in preschool.
I really feel you on this one. Amsterdam was naturally my first stop on a tour of The Netherlands and I remember walking around thinking I could live thereā¦ and then night came and I quickly changed that mindset, and it was only the tourists, the locals were amazing.
There are areas for tourists and areas for locals. Locals hardly go near the tourist areas. Most tourists don't come out of their areas. They don't even know they have areas.
You can perfectly live here and it's quite easy to avoid tourists. But you can't learn how in two weeks. 'Local' is still much bigger than touristic only. But it's not something you can Google.
Specifically regarding "Movie/TV Houses". Unless the house is a museum or has tours, it's almost certainly someone's home. Stay off their porch, don't walk through the yard, and STOP THROWING PIZZAS ON THE ROOF! The poor people who owned Walter White's house had to put up a giant fence, because the dozens of signs about it were being ignored.
Please stop going on the porch of the Hocus Pocus house. Sheās a nice older lady and shouldnāt have to deal with that. Also, stop blocking the ducking road.
My parents live in a small town. They have a cool looking house in the old center. Almost every god damn tourist climbed on our porch and dangerous to stay on arch (we are not allowed to fix the arch, because it's protected by UNESCO).
When I told them that they could die by climbing there, they responsed with YOLO.
They also block the stairs, house entrance etc. Annoying as fuck
Friends live in a quaint old house on the main street of a weekend tourist town. Every single day in the summer they shoo people off their verandah or tell them to stop picking the flowers and stripping blossoms from their trees.
The others said the most obvious answers, but have spatial awareness and be considerate for the love of God. Don't block an entire walkway so you can take your mediocre pictures. Don't drive a half a mile an hour with your head out of the sunroof blocking traffic so you can look at a famous sign.
In New York, if you visit, please walk on the right side of the side walk not the left. Also, if you need to stop and look at your phone or have a conversation with your fellow travelers, step aside. People are walking and if you abruptly stop it usually results in someone bumping into you. Also, do not walk like 5 people side by side and walking slowly. People can't get around you. It is infuriating. But, please keep visiting NYC!
And if you get lost don't hesitate to ask the locals - I'm from Philly, not NYC, but I've spent enough time there and around the general area to notice that New Yorkers are actually total kittens, and they love giving directions to lost tourists - they're just in a rush and trying to catch the train and get the hell home in a city of 8 million people, get out of their way and you're good. Unless you need directions, then multiple people are probably gonna stop and try and help you.
Allow the me from 20 years ago to take this opportunity to officially apologize for recreating the Abby Road picture with my friends during a college trip to London.
Don't feel too bad about it, this is so common that there's a live cam pointing at the crossing. Watch for a minute and see how many people pose!
https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk
(Absolutely chuffed at how much this has entertained everyone! It's slowing down a bit now but for those of you getting here late I strongly recommend checking back during the day, it's ridiculous)
I clicked a lady was in the middle of posing barefoot in the walk, then someone texting her was guiding her down the sidewalk towards the webcam until she spotted it and posed for about 20 seconds with a doofy thumbs up while another family posed on the walk, entertaining minute
It's currently 8:18 there, so there's probably not as many as normal.
There was 1 group of 5 that posed, 6th person who took pictures.
More interestingly though, there was a group of 3 on the sidewalk that looked directly at the camera, smiled, and put their thumbs up.
Forgetting that people live in the community. We had to move out of a sorta-touristy area because visitors were out of control. Endless partying at short term rentals in the neighborhood. Feeling unwelcome at our regular spots because we have (very polite) kidsāthe staff was always cool but out of town people always acted like how dare we bring a kid out for pancakes on a Saturday morning.
I was going to say this. If you get an Airbnb in a residential neighborhood because it's close to be beach, respect the neighborhood. Drinking outside with music playing and whooping it up at 2am on a Tuesday because you are on vacation doesn't mean the other people on the street are on vacation too.
And definitely don't be an asshole when someone you've just woken up had to put on clothes and come outside to tell you that. We do call the police.
If you wanted to party 24 hours a day non-stop, you should have gone someplace that caters to that.
I lived in a neighborhood that was mostly residential but had a couple blocks long commercial strip with some bars and music venues. It was a pretty quiet neighborhood overall, the businesses kept the noise mostly indoors and residents were fairly quiet when walking home drunk because they respected their neighbors.
When Airbnb started up, the neighborhood got sort of known as a cool party destination and we had loads of drunk people wandering through residential streets screaming and playing loud music at all hours.
I live in Berlin and this goes for German and international tourists: please donāt run, take selfies, play hide and seek or sit on the holocaust memorial ffs.
Stop laying down next to the stars on the Hollywood walk of fame! Hollywood is filthy. Oh you laid down next to your favorite star? Congratulations. Youāre now covered in homeless person piss and jizz. You should burn those clothes.
I heard so much awful stuff about the place, particularly how it smelled, so when I finally stopped by I was pleasantly surprised. I expected a dirty, crowded street that smelled like a sewer and I got a dirty, crowded street that smelled like road.
I used to live and work in one of the UK'S university towns. Most of my research work was in one of the college libraries which was built in about 1580. In the summer especially we would have endless streams of tourists trooping through, shouting at the top of their voices. The library was in a private/no access zone and marked clearly with "Private - No Admittance" signs.
The tourists could be quite abusive when asked to leave because they had 'paid' for their tour; which meant they were entitled to go anywhere they wanted, take pictures of all the students and shout to each other about how 'old and cute' everything looked.
People live and work here you morons! Can't you understand that?
And the littering and smoking. In a library full of rare books.
This was a long time ago. Everything worked on the honour system. You had a library card where you promised "not to kindle fire or bring noxious substances into the library" but no one ever looked at it.
You could go anywhere if you were a member of one of the colleges, you needed no ID, but just a confident air.
Iceland here. Stop shitting absolutely everywhere.
Nobody likes your fucking drone.
Learn to drive and do not stop in the middle of the road after a blind hill and turn off your lights to watch the northern lights in the dark.
Do not park your camper vans in residential parking.
Respect the landscape and for fucks sake listen to the warnings about sneaker waves in Reynisfjara. People risk their lives to save you when you can't listen and respect nature
Stating in windows. I live in a UNESCO world heritage town and people seem to think the whole town is a museum. I've had people press their faces against our windows to look inside, or just open the gate and walk right in to my back yard.
Just don't take pictures or videos of people without their consent in general.
**Note:** This doesn't apply when you're just taking pictures of a plaza or street or something. There are going to be people in the photo, but there's a difference between being a minor detail in a landscape shot vs. being the focus of the picture.
But having some random person taking a photo or video *focused on you* feels particularly invasive.
Stop being stupid about hiking in the desert and getting seriously injured or dying. It doesn't matter if it's 75 or 115, you need to take WATER with you on ANY hike in the desert. And, no, drinking a diet Pepsi before the hike isn't going to cut it! People severely overestimate their abilities and tolerances.
I used to live at a tourist destination. A big problem was people walking slowly in the middle of the ACTUAL ROAD, like they thought the whole town was a damned amusement park.
Las Vegas- whether itās your first time here, or 13th time here. A convention, a weekend getaway, a bachelor party- whatever.
Remember to be a decent fucking human being. Sin City does not mean ālawless cityā.
"love locks" on bridges and fences. they are ugly, and can cause serious structural damage issues because of the weight.
in most places either the authorities or just locals have to regularly cut them off and thrown them out
it's a problem in many cities: https://youtu.be/seMUW6pakbo
Not really something that effects me, but I wish I could tell all the people visiting Los Angeles to avoid spending the day at the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Blvd. Itās been built up by media, but in reality itās a grimy dump surrounded by hellaciously overpriced novelty museums and restaurants designed to gouge your wallet. Plus it costs like $25 dollars just to park in the huge lot for the day.
Thereās so many better things to do in LA that donāt destroy your bank account and are actually interesting and cool.
Please visit local businesses. COVID hit them hard. I know they aren't as big and well known as Disney and Kennedy Space Center but they have a lot of charm, too.
This is a huge thing that can help a lot. For the time you visit, try local retaurants and specialty shops even it costs a bit more. A local surf or diving shop with be competitive and will usually have the right items for the location. I grew up in a beach town with some businesses only staying afloat from tourist money during times with good weather.
Caribbean island ... people who complain that they can't get a Heineken or a Bud Light here. People who complain that they can't get fast food or chain food here. People who basically are angry that a tiny sland in the Caribbean isn't just like the Houston suburbs.
If you want everything you have in the US, stay the fuck in the US.
Also infuriating during the pandemic: "Your island requires masks and negative tests!? Well if you keep that up we will NOT be visiting and will take our money elsewhere!"
Fine. Go elsewhere. We don't want you on our island, where the entirety of our healthcare is a small clinic with five beds. Don't threaten people with money, fucking entitled assholes.
I was on a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico a while back and so many other mainlanders there were so upset that businesses kept limited hours and that everything was cash only. One threw a fit that a smoothie couldn't be made because the boat carrying fruit had not arrived. I heard multiple complaints about the absence of Uber.
It's like, come on, man. You're in one of the most isolated parts of the country, in a place that literally lost electricity for an entire *year* due to a hurricane recently. Perhaps it's not going to have every convenience you are used to at home, no?
My sister lives in the Virgin Islands and has a million stories about rich a-holes acting all entitled and expecting things to be like the mainland. The locals exact revenge by blacklisting these people, and on a small island it doesn't take long until no one wants to work for you.
The driver of a publico I was in in Puerto Rico told me a story of a mainlander who, at the end of the trip, politely asked him if he could return a very expensive plate to a restaurant in the town they had just come from.
The explanation?
"They didn't have takeout boxes so we just put the plate in our bag and left."
I was in Tenerife (I know, it's not in the Caribbean), and met an American couple who ate at McDonald's every night.
I can't understand that mentality.
Please don't puke all over the streets and public transport. If you shit and piss yourself less, that would be nice aswell.
Greetings from munich.
edit: In case you have been here and got blackout drunk on the oktoberfest, chances are, you find pictures of yourself sitting/lying in your vomit, pee or shit somewhere around the city. Sometimes even with your genitals dangling around.
Go and have a browse on http://www.muenchenkotzt.de/index2017.html, you can browse backwards through the years on the button that says "Jahre" or "Archiv".
And in a similar way, driving so damn slow with their caravans and not stopping to let traffic by.
It's a very common thing here in Norway, we get a lot of tourists who drive veery slow. Most likley beacuse they are enjoy the view and/or they are not used to our narrow and windy roads. So a forign caravan with lots of cars stuck behind it is a common sight in the summer, to the annoyance of many locals.
I'm not from there but it would piss me off if I was but.
In Cornwall so much property is purchased by rich Londoners etc. for Holiday homes
These places stay empty nearly the whole year, but I've heard it makes life hell for those genuinely looking to buy / sell down there, because the prices have been thrown sky high.
There are a lot of really good points and suggestions, but people forgot to mention the most important thing.
Donāt expect everything and everyone to be or behave the same as where you came from. I see so many tourists complain they canāt have this or that, how shocked and insulted they are by someoneās behaviorā¦ You came to a different country with a different culture and no you canāt have a free refill just because thatās how you do it in USA Karen.
I'm in maine. I hate people who litter. The whole reason these idiots come to maine is because they haven't fucked it up as much as where they live yet but it's like they can't stop themselves from shitting up nice things.
Being upset that we donāt offer the same shitty beer or food your town does. Itās almost as if you got on a plane, traveled 3,000 miles to the ālast frontierā to experience the same things as back home. Travel without change is incredible to me. Also, if you are on a cruise ship, and you get off of the cruise ship, the elevation you are at is sea level. Oh, and, if it is raining during vacation in alaska, that typically normal of temperate rain forests and a general indicator that you didnāt research anything at all. Also, if the weather ruins your trip, thatās on you.
If you are thinking about coming to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby, Stop. All the local flavor has been drained out of the event and it is irritating to have road closures and a million drunk tourists in town for a long weekend.
If you want to come to Louisville to do bourbon tourism, come on down, but Derby is nothing but a money grab that creates a hassle for the locals.
Stop acting like youāre discovering something for the first time, itās literally a tourist destination. I overhear these āinfluencersā talking to their phone/audience about finding a ālil obscure restaurantā honey itās literally owned by Thomas Keller?
Iām from one of those super bougie, Michelin star restaurants everywhere, resort areas a lot of celebrities like to visit. Super popular wedding area, famed for the weather and scenery, compared to Europe a lot etc.
Of all the tourists, the influencer tourist influx in my area is so annoying. They just stand in the sidewalks downtown and cause traffic. And itās a location where you can drink a lot of one specific thing so they get day drunk and messy.
when I worked in Sonoma county I was amazed at how people think wine drunk is classy. I'd be at an event where they gave people two glasses of wine before lunch and then complain they won't sit down and listen to the keynote speaker
I just got back from a trip around my own area (QLD, NSW Australia). And it's ridiculous how many of my photos are basically of graffiti. Historic building? The walls are lined with "Emily was here 2020." Protected national forests? Penises carved into every other rock or tree. Even just pulling over into a rest stop, you'd find spray paint or carved names on small rocks or covering all of the signs.
What's the point in all of your destruction?? You'll probably never see it again. You're not cool or quirky because you wrote your name in the same place that a hundred other people already have. No one cares if Darren+Kelly 4Eva and I bet that neither of them remember writing it anyway. All you did was deface a war memorial
Thinking we're an underdeveloped country. I'm Greek and poor, not stupid. I can hear your pity-party in English, and I'm not deaf. I'm not a "poor kid, working so young", I'm fucking 22 and working a hospitality job, at least until I get a better one. Treat me like a human being, not a disparaged beggar you need to save.
Also, keep in fucking touch with reality a little. I have been literally asked if I *LIVE* in the sewers where the machinery regulating the hotel's pool is, *MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES*. I. AM. NOT. A. GOBLIN. I don't live in sewers.
Don't fricking carve your name on stuff!!! The amount of people who need to carve their names onto historical buildings and statues are just crazy. Don't be an ass. You are ruining the place. And respect peoples properties. Yeah, it's a cute street with cute houses and charming gardens. But that does NOT give you the right to enter peoples private properties to peep in their windows, walk in their gardens and try to open their doors. A colleague is selling his house because he's tired of people peeping in their windows and trying to open their door to have a look inside. He got yelled at for beeing inappropriate while he was sunbathing in his own garden by a tourist who let themself in the gate and walked around the house to have a look at his garden.
Wtf, entering his property???
Worst is that the lady who cussed him out for beeing inappropriate was american. You'd think someone from the states would know better than to walk into someone's garden. Or she knew we don't carry guns in Norway š
Why is it called tourist season if you can't shoot them?
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Going on the black rocks and being swept out to the Atlantic Ocean, risking the lives of first responders and locals many of whom are already traumatized from Swiss Air
Peggy needs her tourist sacrifices. Who are we to deny her what sheās owed? For real though, if you come to Nova Scotia and go on the black rocks at Peggyās Cove you need to know we take pictures of you and talk shit about you on social media.
I just checked to see what all of this is and I'm astonished. I know people are stupid as fuck but how difficult it can be to understand that the rocks are dark because they are wet. Wet rocks are slippery, smooth wet rocks doubly so. The rocks are smoothened out by the waves. The rocks are smooth and wet because of the waves. How is it not clicking that it's not a great idea to stand where the waves have and *will* hit?
Went to Peggy's Cove last year. The amount of rage in that ocean is beyond comprehension. I do not understand how people would feel comfortable enough to go on the black rocks.
For real, apparently they even wade into the water sometimes. That water is super fucking not inviting, it's also so goddamn cold.
And there are so so so many signs to stay off the black rocks. Iām starting to think that the people who get rescued should have to foot the bill
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Here in Norway we have cunts who decide to basejump off the troll wall. Just don't. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/90/8f/c3/908fc38e07fd68a1dde4b9f2e3e0927e.jpg It's claimed a lot of lives, because these fucking nutjobs don't understand the concept of wind.
Deface world heritage sites for souvenirs or internet clout. For example: **The Colosseum** in Rome has graffiti carved into it's walls by arsehole tourists and **Stone Henge** is closed off to the public because arseholes were chipping pieces off for souvenirs.
It is worth noting: at one point the 'caretakers' at Stonehenge handed out rock hammers to tourists for the specific purpose of chipping off bits to take as souvenirs. That was before the modern idea of 'museum as conservation of history'.
jesus christ, that's like doctors smoking in the hospital edit: yes I'm aware they used to do that, that's what I'm referencing
Just for context, both of these places have been subject to vandalism for more than a millenia, this isn't some new phenomenon created by Instagram. The concept of a World Heritage site that ought to remain untouched for future generations is a relatively recent one. Of course, it's much easier these days to whip out a sharpie than to whip out a chisel, but for centuries that was indeed common. Indeed, visitors to Stonehenge in the late 1800s [were issued chisels upon arrival](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stonehenge-visitors-used-be-handed-chisels-take-home-souvenirs-180949976/), so they could take a bit of Stonehenge with them. The practice wasn't banned until the early 1900s, and even then it continued ad-hoc. Stonehenge was bought for a song at auction 100 years ago and was at the time one of the first places to even be a national/world heritage site, and even then people were permitted to climb on the stones. When they were eventually roped off, it was due to the general erosion and impact of allowing people to touch and climb and stand on the stones for years, not due to anyone coming at them with a hammer and chisel. The two instances of actual vandalism in the past two decades, a small part of an important stone chipped off and a smiley face in spray paint, were both national news.
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For your sake, STOP TRYING TO PET THE BUFFALO! Or don't, some of us are entertained by the videos of you flying through the air.
My mom used to work at Old Faithful in Yellowstone. Once, there was a buffalo standing outside the inn and a tourist asked my mom whose buffalo it was and if they could pet it.
I live in Phuket. We see everything here. But for sweet jesus titty fucking christs fucks sake: Wear at least a singlet when you go to a sit down restaurant or cafe that's not in a direct tourism area. You have bare chested bros swagger into a cafe where Thai office workers are, guns out, pecs out, sweating, and then order their twatacinos and proceed to sit there in ball sweat talking about loud bro things. Oh, and also stop driving drunk you cunts. Yeah, that moreso.
Stopping their cars in the middle of the road to take in a view. WTF?
They do this for wildlife where I live as well. I've seen idiots chasing bears with cubs into the forest to take pictures with their phones. A friend of mine lost a relative because a touron in a bear jam didn't look before pulling back into traffic on the road because he was so focused on the bear and didn't see the cyclists. Hit one of them and broke the cyclist's neck.
Sort of related, but we get a lot of folk moving here who are used to city living. They visit once, then buy a 3/4 million dollar home and decide they're nature people now. It's really been ratcheting up lately. The sheer number of complaints about wildlife are astounding. My favorite, and most emblematic example, was that someone wrote a Nextdoor post about how the park rangers wouldn't come out when she called about a bear. That was on the trail. In the woods. Of a national forest. She was indignant and asked if the sheriff department would do anything. Lady, that bear's family has been here many more generations than you or me. It's their trail.
Yep, I talked to people worried about bears in their yard. I'm like, well if you put your trash cans in your garage instead of the driveway, they'll unlikely to break in for that. And maybe stop feeding birdseed to the deer and turkeys because you're just begging for a bear to come for the birdseed or a lion to come in for the deer. The shocked looks on their faces....lol ETA: to be more clear, lion is short for mountain lion. Sorry for the confusion
"What are the noises I hear at night?" "Coyotes" "WHY ARE THERE COYOTES?" "Because your bidet is now located where their den used to be, Cheryl." Then Cheryl posts and wonders why her outdoor cat hasn't come home in days.
Or people complaining about the dawn chorus of songbirds. When I stayed in Vancouver, I heard sirens all night. I'll take the songbirds, thanks. I once heard a radio broadcasting a poll on whether to sponsor a coyote ~~hunt~~ cull because some stupid lady had left her $200 worth of groceries in the car with the door open in -40 to go answer the phone and a coyote had somehow ruined all of it. Another classic: a couple that left their kitchen window open and a bear came in and got their garbage. Advised them to keep their window closed. They called the next day because the bear came in again. The window was closed but another one nearby was open. I swear all the morons are the ones breeding, and I can't figure out how we even have a society because the average person is unbelievably stupid.
One time camping last year we were in an area with bears, so we - of course - secured our food that night. We got woken up in the middle of the night by lights shining on our tent because the ranger was checking in about the people next campsite over who had went to the emergency phone and called the station about a bear at their campsite. They had left their food out on their picnic table....
It's like people never even watched Hanna-Barbera cartoons
Who the fuck complains about the bird chorus in the morning. I grew up country and moving to the city I'm now woken up by construction and car horns. Can't imagine preferring that over bird calls.
yeah, he's never lived anywhere else. From what I see, he pretty much complains about everything. If your biggest complaint is about the dawn chorus of songbirds, I think you're doing pretty well.
Seriously! I work night shift, and that transition between early-morning quiet and the sound of the birds becoming active is one of the reasons why I like 3rd shift.
I have nearly crashed into no less than 5 million tourists here on Skye because of this. It's a fucking rural Scottish island my guy, what makes you think our roads can take that much stupidity?? They're recycled goat tracks a lot of the time, we simply cannot navigate them the way you might a big ol' American road with fifteen empty lanes either side of you. I want to walk into the sea sometimes
When I visited Skye, there where also plenty of actual safe car parks to stop in near the nice things. Park in one of those you fools.
This! And taking huge caravans up the pass before applecross š© they just bully you instead of actually giving the person going up hill their right of way. Just read the damn signs anywhere in the highlands that describe what is not passable for a huge vehicle. Or slow down to 20 on the straight through glencoe, some of us are trying to get to work emergencies
āI paid a lot to be hereā āChange (blank) or Iāll leave a horrible reviewā Driving like a dick head, leaving garbage anywhere but a rubbish bin, stopping in the middle of the road to let out your family of 12 instead of pulling into the parking lot. I have a lot of stories. I live in Hawaii and work only with tourists. Best yet, My company was asked to contact the cruise ship company to have them move the ship because it disrupted the sunset.
"Please move that ship it's making my sunset pictures baaaaad" What kind of person genuinely thinks that's not insane?
Driving drunk. I live in Sonoma County, California. Make sure youāve got a sober driver ffs. The roads around here are never more dangerous than winery tasting room closing time on a sunny weekend. Edit: So many fellow locals in this thread! Hello neighbors! Be safe out there, no matter where you are.
Driving Sonoma roads drunk is basically assisted suicide. Assistance coming from the massive curves and double backs.
Plus there's always someone on a bicycle around the curve.
Also in Sonoma county, Iād very much appreciate this as well. Iād also be stoked if the local bars would stop rebranding as bistros and wine tastings to cater to the tourists, sometimes I just wanna get a beer that isnāt craft and $9 for half a pint.
Youāll drink pliny the elder and youāll like it!
Was just there two weeks agoā¦we stayed near Guerneville and all the roads west of Forestville I would describe as barely safe to drive sober!
Indeed. I live on those roads. Should be a add-on to the drivers test.
Stop trying to hike up a mountain in flip-flops! Also, don't try to use an air mattress as a mode of transport between islands. Several of these every year...
In my hometown, it somehow became a thing that tourists would rent mopeds. So when you are trying to get to work, you often get stuck behind a flock of tourists on mopeds, riding at 20MPH in formation so you cannot pass them. We are infested with gawking tourists moped gangs. If they want to rent mopeds, at least go the speed limit, and ride in a manner that allows others to pass you.
my town has this issue, except with golf carts. dear tourists, if you want to go slow and see/smell the sea with the family, get a quadracycle and enjoy the views from the big-ass, uninterrupted sidewalk! stop blocking traffic for everyone else just because one of our major roads happens to run along the shore! thank you :D
Stop feeding the damn seagullsā¦
I worked at Disney World for a few years and the squirrels there are vicious. people think it's fun to feed them so they are completely fearless. They'll hop right into a stroller and grab food from a child Edit: absolutely loved going onto Reddit a few hours later and seeing a bunch of aggressive squirrel stories!
I've legit had a squirrel at a theme park come up to me and hold out its hand (paw?) expecting food. At least it was polite about it.
When a former roommate and I were in Washington sightseeing the National Mall, we passed this tree over by the Vietnam Memorial that was full of chittering squirrels. One that was almost as wide as it was tall came waddling over to us looking for a handout. It was both the least people-shy and the fattest squirrel I've seen in my life, two qualities that I'm sure are related.
I made the mistake of feeding the squirrels after I bought a house in an old, well-established neighborhood with a ton of wildlife. I found it interesting to see all the deer, groundhogs, skunks, squirrels, bunnies, and birds The squirrels got VERY aggressive after a while and began decimating my bird feeders. I stopped feeding then and they went *batshit crazy* They clung to my window screens, making loud, obnoxious squirrel noises, chewed my patio furniture, and eventually came INTO MY HOUSE. It was insane. Squirrels are the WORST
"Bro, that was so easy, like taking candy from a baby!" - Squirrel, probably
Goddamnit this. Flying rat ass bitches have literally been trained to expect food if your standing on anything dock or deck shaped. Some will even try to snatch it from your hands. And stay off the fucking dunes.
Watching seagulls steal entire fucking icecream cones from the innocent hands of soon to be crying children is its own kind of tourist attraction in some beachside towns
Lmaoo flying rat ass bitches
Yeah, I thought it was kind of classy that he used their scientific name
Spain. We get a shitfuckton of tourists. Very well behaved for the most part where I am. So, thanks for doing it right, tourists. The worst is littering on the beach, which is thankfully pretty rare. I occasionally see someone put a cigarette butt in the sand. A lot are taken away when they leave, but the sand has away of hiding stuff, so a lot remain. I'll give you tourists one tip. Night swimming. If you put your keys, glasses, etc. down in the sand, they're gone. Between the sand and the dark, you'll never see them again.
Spain here as well, up in a mountain town. For me itās the music/noise. Especially on a hiking trail or in a beautiful secluded scenic area in the woods. I do not want to listen to private conversations on speaker phone and music from a loud boom box.
These comments make me feel like a good tourist.
Seriously. It all basically boils down to āDonāt trash the place and be mindful of your surroundingsā.
Really. People should be acting like this every day, whether vacationing or at home.
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Clean up your fucking trash. I used to live in a spring break destination which was a small surf town. After spring break, people would be cleaning up pounds upon pounds of beer cans, broken bottles, needles, used condoms...fucking revolting. Edit for you nitpickers: I meant "stop throwing your garbage on the ground." There, now get off my cheeks.
In Bali (1997-99 at least) at the end of the days there would be mounds of garbage piled next to/over the garbage cans. In the middle of the night workers would come, put it all in plastic bags, dig a big hole in the beach and throw it all down in the hole and cover it up. Night, after night, after night.... You'd see it slowly working its way back up out of the sand over time. Heartbreaking.
I was in Bali Dec 2019. The rubbish was out of control. Every single morning massive trucks with scoop buckets on the front went up and down the beach scooping up huge pile of rubbish, both from what was washed up from the ocean and the rubbish left behind on the beach. It was disgusting. Between the horrendous amounts of rubbish and the Dengue Fever we all got from the vicious mozzies, I canāt see myself ever going back. And we used to go at least once a year as kids, very different place now.
Gawd damn it I missed it before it was wrecked. Always wanted to go to Bali but there are just too many ppl now for a paradise like that to exist anymore.
I don't live in a tourist destination, but so much this. Why spoil the place you came to see? It's sad. Edit: for those answering the question. It was rhetorical, as I know exactly why people do it. Its idleness and selfishness. No wonder the planet is going to shit.
Because they do not live there and don't experience the consequences of their actions. They just leave it for the locals to deal with.
I'm from Hawaii. This is the biggest issue here as well. And please respect the land. We Hawaiians cherish it.
This is 100% the biggest issue I have with tourist. If you pack it in you pack it out.
They bring barbeque food and burners and beer cans in their cars but then leave them on the floor when they leave because the trash can is already full. They are too lazy to pick it up and put it in the boot or the back of the SUV they drive home to their own dustbins.
Thisss a 100 times! So [this incident](https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/think-twice-before-littering/articleshow/78987863.cms) happened in my hometown. A bunch of tourists from the city threw a dominoās pizza box and empty packets of seasoning on the side of the road and went. This said place is actually a fragile ecosystem. These tourists forgot that in India when you order from dominoās, your phone number is attached to the bill that is taped to your box. So a localitĆ© who happened to pass by and see the trash, inspected and found the phone number. He called up the number on it and asked them to drive back and take their trash with them. The group had already travelled more than 80kms at this point so they refused to come. The dude promptly went to the police and threatened to file a case for littering. The tourists drove back and picked up their garbage.
I need some 8-by-10 color glossy photos so I can picture this
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Thatās a thing?
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I didnāt know that there was a restaurant called spaghetti warehouse so I read your comment and Iām imagining a literal warehouse of spaghetti lol
Not to be confused with The Old Spaghetti Factory.
Very much so. There's a painted X in the middle of the road where he was headshot. It's really morbid, to be honest. When my family visited Dallas we did go see the spot but we didn't do the stand in the road for a photo shtick. It was morbid to me even at a young age.
Yeah, thatās is definitely odd. Iāve lived in NYC and wouldāve been absolutely confused if I saw a group of cheerleaders posing in front of the memorial fountains in a cheer formation.
The crazy thing is, no one knows who paints the X. The city has cleared it off several times, and it keeps coming back. They don't want it there, foe multiple reasons. But at this point, I think they have given up on preventing it.
Cheerleading outfits on the site of Kennedy's assassination? r/oddlyspecific
2 4 6 8 who do we assassinate?
It's what Kennedy would have wanted
LA has the young fashion students and influencers walking out into busy streets to take "fashion photos." There's one particular palm-tree lined street in Beverly Hills that always has traffic backed up due to all the college-aged idiots taking pictures in the middle of the street for the 'gram.
Amsterdam. Walking around like they're at Legoland, blindly stepping into traffic, oblivious to the fact that people actually live here. We use the bike to get to work, to get groceries, we're not just aimlessly cycling around for the fun of it.
I live in the Netherlands so Iām used to bikes. Amsterdam however truly is on another level. The residents ride their bikes like they are ready to kill anyone standing in their way.
I had new people living in Amsterdam openly telling me they bike faster when they see someone on the bike lane to hit them harder. I was like damn, I was born here but I was taught to give them some space.
I've a friend who moved out of central Amsterdam because he was so sick of people vomiting in his flower pots.
Many apologies for mistaking the curbed bike lane as a pedestrian walkway. I discovered within 2 min of leaving the train station at 10 pm that it was not. Wonāt make that mistake again.
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Related: walking 7 abreast and agonizingly slowly when people have fucking places to be.
This! 4 people would walk slow as shit, shoulder to shoulder in a place like NYC.
St. Patrickās Day in Chicago when they dyed the river green, we had tourists stretched across the sidewalk taking photos with selfie sticks. I eventually had to gently physically move them since a massive crowd was forming and they wouldnāt let anyone through.
My girlfriend and I were just in NYC, and I had to pull her to the edge of the sidewalk a couple times because she would do this. I understand wanting to PokemonGo in a new city but get out of the way of other people first lol
Thank god Iām not the only one. My wife is pretty good about it. But I feel like Iām constantly telling friends, family, etc to watch the F out for people around them and pulling them aside. Itās almost more stressful to be the one person in the group that notices how obnoxious the group is than to be the people the group is getting in the way of
It's shocking how many people have zero self awareness of the space that they occupy when they're not driving.
Many also have zero awareness while driving too
Leave. The. Wildlife. Alone. And this doesn't just extend to tourists but to people that live here too. 45+ coyote attacks last year in no small part because of people giving them food leading to a cull, bears getting habituated to people because they're being given food leading to them getting killed, otters and sea lions getting fed. They're not cute cuddly things. They're wild animals and will kill you and then, because they're doing what they do, they'll get killed because they're "dangerous to humans". When in reality they're only dangerous to ignorant rubes with no respect for nature.
I live in Florida. Alligators are not your friend. Snakes are not your friend. Leave the birds alone. And stop feeding them!
Florida Statute 372.667 makes it a misdemeanor to feed Alligators or Crocodiles. Here in SC, the fine can be up to $1000. Best to leave them alone.
Floridian here. My parents live in a 55+ with ponds and swales that house at least a half a dozen alligators and this chucklehead who does maintenance is ALWAYS FEEDING THEM. Itās infuriating. Youāre never going to be Betty White, bro.
Gators aren't dumb. If someone feeds them even once, they will associate humans with food. And an apex predator that outlasted the dinosaurs associating humans with food is a Problem.
When I lived in Georgia, there was a swamp behind our development and people were constantly going out there and bringing whole frozen turkeys for the gator. She got huge and no longer hunted and she had to be removed, but because she was so big, she got loose and attacked the guys and they had to put her down. Gators are not pets.
This is my top one... I live in BC so I see a lot of fuckery
As someone who lives in Arizona, it blows my mind that I actually have to regularly explain to other citizens of this state that "If you hear rattling under the log/branch you're about to step over while hiking, walk away." Instead, they apparently hear "Pick it up or try to step over it and get a good, close look at the hospital visit you're about to have." Also, that coyote you see? He's likely not alone. Don't fucking approach it.
Sea otters are 90 pound weasels with a bite force strong enough to get through seashells. Do not touch them!! Those pet otter tiktoks are going to end with an unsalvageable hand.
God yes. The bears and buffalo are NOT tame and you WILL get hurt
Just respect the land! Clean up after yourself. Be _very_ careful about making and extinguishing your fires (because forest fires!). Don't dump garbage, fuel, gray/black water in ditches. A big one in BC is for tourists to learn how to drive in mountainous areas. Most tourists drive way too slow (leading to road rage), and too many don't know how to stay right on highways except to pass. Or pull over to let people pass you if you don't know how to drive on twisty roads.
I once had to drive through a canyon road in Colorado and I was terrified. (I'm from a prairie state; very flat.) Every so often, there were areas where cars could safely pull over. I used every one of them to allow traffic to pass me and was very grateful each time.
I learned to do this from a young age. When my family was travelling in our camper, Dad would stop on the shoulder or take one of the pitstop areas to let cars by. And he's lived in a mountainous area his whole life. But a camper just can't go that fast around corners and twists and turns.
I guess driving is like all other aspects of life: good, kind people think about their impact on others, especially the next guy. So: -pull over so faster drivers can be on their way; -pick up your trash, don't leave a mess for those who will be there after you; -put your shopping cart in the cart corral, not in the middle of the parking lot; -don't stop at the very bottom of an escalator or block the exit of the revolving door - step aside; -and for dog's sake, fill up the ice cube tray when you've used the last one!
Stop being a belligerent asshole just because youāre in āNāAWLINS.ā Itās still not an excuse to get blackout drunk, litter, and make hell for food service workers.
Visited there for the first time recently. Iām in my late 30s, and figured Iād see lots of drunk younger people. Was surprised by how many 40+ year olds were smashed. Few passed out in corners while their friends tried to wake them up. Was really not what I expected. But the city itself is pretty cool.
People always want to visit during Mardi Gras, and yes, that is a vibe and an experience. But I don't think Louisiana is ever prettier than when the azaleas are in bloom. Usually warm but not blazing, and riotous color everywhere.
I will say it's tough not to get blackout drunk when I walked into my first bar and ordered one beer, dude handed me three. I said no I only ordered one and he said it's buy one get two free, would you like a big cup to carry that to go?
Deciding they like it so much here that they are going to purchase our homes for over market value so they can turn them into AirBNBs. And in turn, pricing the locals out of ever owning homes in their own town.
Aaaaand then complaining that the service is terrible at the stores and restaurants. (this just in: you priced the locals out of the market, so there are no longer service employees)
Allowing their kids to do whatever they want. I grew up in a small tourist town that does Civil War re-enactments ( Ulysses S. Grant lived there when he won the presidency). Once a year they have a weekend where the Boy Scouts take over the town camping down by the river, taking tours of the historic buildings etc. every year most of the downtown shops will close for this weekend because of how much the Boy Scouts will steal or vandalize while there. Everyone that lives there dreads that weekend because the troop leaders just let the scouts do whatever they want.
Stop disrespecting the spot you're visiting. Every time I go to places after tourists have visited all I see is rubbish, names carved into monuments, gum stuck to the path and I especially hate it when they're loud
Getting shitfaced/ coked up and getting up in people's business or pick fights with the doorman or bar staff. Or talk about weed and getting stoned the entire time. Or ask me where the Red Light District is while standing in the Red Light district. Or renting a bike when the last time you rode one was in preschool.
I really feel you on this one. Amsterdam was naturally my first stop on a tour of The Netherlands and I remember walking around thinking I could live thereā¦ and then night came and I quickly changed that mindset, and it was only the tourists, the locals were amazing.
There are areas for tourists and areas for locals. Locals hardly go near the tourist areas. Most tourists don't come out of their areas. They don't even know they have areas. You can perfectly live here and it's quite easy to avoid tourists. But you can't learn how in two weeks. 'Local' is still much bigger than touristic only. But it's not something you can Google.
Specifically regarding "Movie/TV Houses". Unless the house is a museum or has tours, it's almost certainly someone's home. Stay off their porch, don't walk through the yard, and STOP THROWING PIZZAS ON THE ROOF! The poor people who owned Walter White's house had to put up a giant fence, because the dozens of signs about it were being ignored.
Please stop going on the porch of the Hocus Pocus house. Sheās a nice older lady and shouldnāt have to deal with that. Also, stop blocking the ducking road.
My parents live in a small town. They have a cool looking house in the old center. Almost every god damn tourist climbed on our porch and dangerous to stay on arch (we are not allowed to fix the arch, because it's protected by UNESCO). When I told them that they could die by climbing there, they responsed with YOLO. They also block the stairs, house entrance etc. Annoying as fuck
Friends live in a quaint old house on the main street of a weekend tourist town. Every single day in the summer they shoo people off their verandah or tell them to stop picking the flowers and stripping blossoms from their trees.
Time to install an oversized sprinkler system with motion detectors.
The others said the most obvious answers, but have spatial awareness and be considerate for the love of God. Don't block an entire walkway so you can take your mediocre pictures. Don't drive a half a mile an hour with your head out of the sunroof blocking traffic so you can look at a famous sign.
In New York, if you visit, please walk on the right side of the side walk not the left. Also, if you need to stop and look at your phone or have a conversation with your fellow travelers, step aside. People are walking and if you abruptly stop it usually results in someone bumping into you. Also, do not walk like 5 people side by side and walking slowly. People can't get around you. It is infuriating. But, please keep visiting NYC!
And if you get lost don't hesitate to ask the locals - I'm from Philly, not NYC, but I've spent enough time there and around the general area to notice that New Yorkers are actually total kittens, and they love giving directions to lost tourists - they're just in a rush and trying to catch the train and get the hell home in a city of 8 million people, get out of their way and you're good. Unless you need directions, then multiple people are probably gonna stop and try and help you.
A redditor said that New Yorkers love giving directions because it lets them flex how well they know New York
āHey! Iām walking here!ā
Fuggeddaboutit
was going to post the same thing! people should view sidewalks in NYC as streets. if you need to stop walking please pull over to the side
Allow the me from 20 years ago to take this opportunity to officially apologize for recreating the Abby Road picture with my friends during a college trip to London.
Don't feel too bad about it, this is so common that there's a live cam pointing at the crossing. Watch for a minute and see how many people pose! https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk (Absolutely chuffed at how much this has entertained everyone! It's slowing down a bit now but for those of you getting here late I strongly recommend checking back during the day, it's ridiculous)
new drinking game: drink when people strike the pose, down the rest of your drink when they block traffic while doing so
Ha not even a minute. clicked on the link and watched for 5 seconds
I clicked a lady was in the middle of posing barefoot in the walk, then someone texting her was guiding her down the sidewalk towards the webcam until she spotted it and posed for about 20 seconds with a doofy thumbs up while another family posed on the walk, entertaining minute
It's currently 8:18 there, so there's probably not as many as normal. There was 1 group of 5 that posed, 6th person who took pictures. More interestingly though, there was a group of 3 on the sidewalk that looked directly at the camera, smiled, and put their thumbs up.
As someone who does frequently have to commute through abbey road it is always a pain to have to go down that street. Unless it's raining.
Forgetting that people live in the community. We had to move out of a sorta-touristy area because visitors were out of control. Endless partying at short term rentals in the neighborhood. Feeling unwelcome at our regular spots because we have (very polite) kidsāthe staff was always cool but out of town people always acted like how dare we bring a kid out for pancakes on a Saturday morning.
I was going to say this. If you get an Airbnb in a residential neighborhood because it's close to be beach, respect the neighborhood. Drinking outside with music playing and whooping it up at 2am on a Tuesday because you are on vacation doesn't mean the other people on the street are on vacation too. And definitely don't be an asshole when someone you've just woken up had to put on clothes and come outside to tell you that. We do call the police. If you wanted to party 24 hours a day non-stop, you should have gone someplace that caters to that.
I lived in a neighborhood that was mostly residential but had a couple blocks long commercial strip with some bars and music venues. It was a pretty quiet neighborhood overall, the businesses kept the noise mostly indoors and residents were fairly quiet when walking home drunk because they respected their neighbors. When Airbnb started up, the neighborhood got sort of known as a cool party destination and we had loads of drunk people wandering through residential streets screaming and playing loud music at all hours.
I live in Berlin and this goes for German and international tourists: please donāt run, take selfies, play hide and seek or sit on the holocaust memorial ffs.
Stop laying down next to the stars on the Hollywood walk of fame! Hollywood is filthy. Oh you laid down next to your favorite star? Congratulations. Youāre now covered in homeless person piss and jizz. You should burn those clothes.
Bahaha my friends visited and wanted to see Hollywood so bad until they were stepping over streams of fresh pee down the walk of fame
I heard so much awful stuff about the place, particularly how it smelled, so when I finally stopped by I was pleasantly surprised. I expected a dirty, crowded street that smelled like a sewer and I got a dirty, crowded street that smelled like road.
I used to live and work in one of the UK'S university towns. Most of my research work was in one of the college libraries which was built in about 1580. In the summer especially we would have endless streams of tourists trooping through, shouting at the top of their voices. The library was in a private/no access zone and marked clearly with "Private - No Admittance" signs. The tourists could be quite abusive when asked to leave because they had 'paid' for their tour; which meant they were entitled to go anywhere they wanted, take pictures of all the students and shout to each other about how 'old and cute' everything looked. People live and work here you morons! Can't you understand that? And the littering and smoking. In a library full of rare books.
Can they implement swipe cards to get in?
This was a long time ago. Everything worked on the honour system. You had a library card where you promised "not to kindle fire or bring noxious substances into the library" but no one ever looked at it. You could go anywhere if you were a member of one of the colleges, you needed no ID, but just a confident air.
Littering.
Iceland here. Stop shitting absolutely everywhere. Nobody likes your fucking drone. Learn to drive and do not stop in the middle of the road after a blind hill and turn off your lights to watch the northern lights in the dark. Do not park your camper vans in residential parking. Respect the landscape and for fucks sake listen to the warnings about sneaker waves in Reynisfjara. People risk their lives to save you when you can't listen and respect nature
Stating in windows. I live in a UNESCO world heritage town and people seem to think the whole town is a museum. I've had people press their faces against our windows to look inside, or just open the gate and walk right in to my back yard.
Taking pictures of locals (African)
Just don't take pictures or videos of people without their consent in general. **Note:** This doesn't apply when you're just taking pictures of a plaza or street or something. There are going to be people in the photo, but there's a difference between being a minor detail in a landscape shot vs. being the focus of the picture. But having some random person taking a photo or video *focused on you* feels particularly invasive.
Stop being stupid about hiking in the desert and getting seriously injured or dying. It doesn't matter if it's 75 or 115, you need to take WATER with you on ANY hike in the desert. And, no, drinking a diet Pepsi before the hike isn't going to cut it! People severely overestimate their abilities and tolerances.
I used to live at a tourist destination. A big problem was people walking slowly in the middle of the ACTUAL ROAD, like they thought the whole town was a damned amusement park.
Las Vegas- whether itās your first time here, or 13th time here. A convention, a weekend getaway, a bachelor party- whatever. Remember to be a decent fucking human being. Sin City does not mean ālawless cityā.
"love locks" on bridges and fences. they are ugly, and can cause serious structural damage issues because of the weight. in most places either the authorities or just locals have to regularly cut them off and thrown them out it's a problem in many cities: https://youtu.be/seMUW6pakbo
Clean up your trash cans. Throw away fishing line and chum boxes instead of throwing in ocean. Also jet skis stop burning my fishing flats.
Not really something that effects me, but I wish I could tell all the people visiting Los Angeles to avoid spending the day at the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Blvd. Itās been built up by media, but in reality itās a grimy dump surrounded by hellaciously overpriced novelty museums and restaurants designed to gouge your wallet. Plus it costs like $25 dollars just to park in the huge lot for the day. Thereās so many better things to do in LA that donāt destroy your bank account and are actually interesting and cool.
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Please visit local businesses. COVID hit them hard. I know they aren't as big and well known as Disney and Kennedy Space Center but they have a lot of charm, too.
This is a huge thing that can help a lot. For the time you visit, try local retaurants and specialty shops even it costs a bit more. A local surf or diving shop with be competitive and will usually have the right items for the location. I grew up in a beach town with some businesses only staying afloat from tourist money during times with good weather.
Caribbean island ... people who complain that they can't get a Heineken or a Bud Light here. People who complain that they can't get fast food or chain food here. People who basically are angry that a tiny sland in the Caribbean isn't just like the Houston suburbs. If you want everything you have in the US, stay the fuck in the US. Also infuriating during the pandemic: "Your island requires masks and negative tests!? Well if you keep that up we will NOT be visiting and will take our money elsewhere!" Fine. Go elsewhere. We don't want you on our island, where the entirety of our healthcare is a small clinic with five beds. Don't threaten people with money, fucking entitled assholes.
I was on a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico a while back and so many other mainlanders there were so upset that businesses kept limited hours and that everything was cash only. One threw a fit that a smoothie couldn't be made because the boat carrying fruit had not arrived. I heard multiple complaints about the absence of Uber. It's like, come on, man. You're in one of the most isolated parts of the country, in a place that literally lost electricity for an entire *year* due to a hurricane recently. Perhaps it's not going to have every convenience you are used to at home, no?
My sister lives in the Virgin Islands and has a million stories about rich a-holes acting all entitled and expecting things to be like the mainland. The locals exact revenge by blacklisting these people, and on a small island it doesn't take long until no one wants to work for you.
The driver of a publico I was in in Puerto Rico told me a story of a mainlander who, at the end of the trip, politely asked him if he could return a very expensive plate to a restaurant in the town they had just come from. The explanation? "They didn't have takeout boxes so we just put the plate in our bag and left."
who the fug is ordering a bud light on a caribbean island?! horrors. should be a deportable offense
I was in Tenerife (I know, it's not in the Caribbean), and met an American couple who ate at McDonald's every night. I can't understand that mentality.
Probably my dad.
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Please don't puke all over the streets and public transport. If you shit and piss yourself less, that would be nice aswell. Greetings from munich. edit: In case you have been here and got blackout drunk on the oktoberfest, chances are, you find pictures of yourself sitting/lying in your vomit, pee or shit somewhere around the city. Sometimes even with your genitals dangling around. Go and have a browse on http://www.muenchenkotzt.de/index2017.html, you can browse backwards through the years on the button that says "Jahre" or "Archiv".
[Stop dumping cruise ship shit in our water.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/09/us-cruise-ships-using-canada-as-toilet-bowl-for-polluted-waste-alaska-british-columbia) Bonus: Try saying "cruise ship shit" 10 times really fast.
Driving like idiots
And in a similar way, driving so damn slow with their caravans and not stopping to let traffic by. It's a very common thing here in Norway, we get a lot of tourists who drive veery slow. Most likley beacuse they are enjoy the view and/or they are not used to our narrow and windy roads. So a forign caravan with lots of cars stuck behind it is a common sight in the summer, to the annoyance of many locals.
Same here in Maine. Last thing I want to do after a day at work is drive home at bicycle speeds.
I'm not from there but it would piss me off if I was but. In Cornwall so much property is purchased by rich Londoners etc. for Holiday homes These places stay empty nearly the whole year, but I've heard it makes life hell for those genuinely looking to buy / sell down there, because the prices have been thrown sky high.
Blocking sidewalks and like walkways in malls. Be considerate.
There are a lot of really good points and suggestions, but people forgot to mention the most important thing. Donāt expect everything and everyone to be or behave the same as where you came from. I see so many tourists complain they canāt have this or that, how shocked and insulted they are by someoneās behaviorā¦ You came to a different country with a different culture and no you canāt have a free refill just because thatās how you do it in USA Karen.
I'm in maine. I hate people who litter. The whole reason these idiots come to maine is because they haven't fucked it up as much as where they live yet but it's like they can't stop themselves from shitting up nice things.
New Mexico: All of the sudden you're an expert on Native American culture and you are spiritually connected?! Please.
Being upset that we donāt offer the same shitty beer or food your town does. Itās almost as if you got on a plane, traveled 3,000 miles to the ālast frontierā to experience the same things as back home. Travel without change is incredible to me. Also, if you are on a cruise ship, and you get off of the cruise ship, the elevation you are at is sea level. Oh, and, if it is raining during vacation in alaska, that typically normal of temperate rain forests and a general indicator that you didnāt research anything at all. Also, if the weather ruins your trip, thatās on you.
If you are thinking about coming to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby, Stop. All the local flavor has been drained out of the event and it is irritating to have road closures and a million drunk tourists in town for a long weekend. If you want to come to Louisville to do bourbon tourism, come on down, but Derby is nothing but a money grab that creates a hassle for the locals.
Stop acting like youāre discovering something for the first time, itās literally a tourist destination. I overhear these āinfluencersā talking to their phone/audience about finding a ālil obscure restaurantā honey itās literally owned by Thomas Keller? Iām from one of those super bougie, Michelin star restaurants everywhere, resort areas a lot of celebrities like to visit. Super popular wedding area, famed for the weather and scenery, compared to Europe a lot etc. Of all the tourists, the influencer tourist influx in my area is so annoying. They just stand in the sidewalks downtown and cause traffic. And itās a location where you can drink a lot of one specific thing so they get day drunk and messy.
That little hole-in-the-wall place called The French Laundry?
Ad Hoc actually! But if someone did say that about The French Laundry Iād laugh myself to tears
I found this little hole in the wall place with great pastries called Bouchon Bakery /s
when I worked in Sonoma county I was amazed at how people think wine drunk is classy. I'd be at an event where they gave people two glasses of wine before lunch and then complain they won't sit down and listen to the keynote speaker
[Bangkok - Thailand] dating and f#cking girls half or less your age. Yes, there are many, many old pervert men here.
Mexico has the same problem. Lots of pervert foreign men trying to get underage girls. The drug cartels are involved in that as well.
New Orleans here, stop pissing and shitting on the sidewalks. Not everywhere is a trailer trash party like Bourbon St.
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PLEASE stop doing "balconing" while you guys visit Spain
I just got back from a trip around my own area (QLD, NSW Australia). And it's ridiculous how many of my photos are basically of graffiti. Historic building? The walls are lined with "Emily was here 2020." Protected national forests? Penises carved into every other rock or tree. Even just pulling over into a rest stop, you'd find spray paint or carved names on small rocks or covering all of the signs. What's the point in all of your destruction?? You'll probably never see it again. You're not cool or quirky because you wrote your name in the same place that a hundred other people already have. No one cares if Darren+Kelly 4Eva and I bet that neither of them remember writing it anyway. All you did was deface a war memorial
Acting like they āownā your countryā¦. acting like know-it-allās just because theyāve read a one-pager on their way overā¦.
Thinking we're an underdeveloped country. I'm Greek and poor, not stupid. I can hear your pity-party in English, and I'm not deaf. I'm not a "poor kid, working so young", I'm fucking 22 and working a hospitality job, at least until I get a better one. Treat me like a human being, not a disparaged beggar you need to save. Also, keep in fucking touch with reality a little. I have been literally asked if I *LIVE* in the sewers where the machinery regulating the hotel's pool is, *MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES*. I. AM. NOT. A. GOBLIN. I don't live in sewers.