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A city built on superlatives that somehow feels soulless β the tallest building, the biggest mall, and the emptiest cultural experience money can buy.

An all-inclusive resort zone masquerading as Mexico, where most visitors never taste real Mexican food or leave the hotel strip.
No actual New Yorker has voluntarily set foot in Times Square since 1997, yet 50 million tourists a year flock to what is essentially an outdoor billboard.

You drive hours out of your way, take the same forced-perspective photo as everyone else, and realize the entire town can be seen in 45 minutes.

A grimy sidewalk littered with stars you've never heard of, surrounded by costumed hustlers demanding tips for photos you didn't ask for.

What was once a spiritual paradise has become a traffic-choked influencer playground where the rice terraces are barely visible behind the ring lights.

You cannot touch the rocks, you cannot walk among them, and after a 90-minute drive from London you realize the photos made them look three times larger.

Thirty million annual visitors have turned floating Renaissance masterpiece into a sweaty queue where you pay twelve euros for a mediocre espresso.

Paying $2,000 a night to sit in an overwater bungalow only to discover there is literally nothing to do but post about it proves that luxury and boredom share a thin line.

The Canadian side has all the views while the American side offers a dated tourist town and the vague sense you're watching nature from the wrong angle.
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A city built on superlatives that somehow feels soulless β the tallest building, the biggest mall, and the emptiest cultural experience money can buy.

An all-inclusive resort zone masquerading as Mexico, where most visitors never taste real Mexican food or leave the hotel strip.
No actual New Yorker has voluntarily set foot in Times Square since 1997, yet 50 million tourists a year flock to what is essentially an outdoor billboard.

You drive hours out of your way, take the same forced-perspective photo as everyone else, and realize the entire town can be seen in 45 minutes.

A grimy sidewalk littered with stars you've never heard of, surrounded by costumed hustlers demanding tips for photos you didn't ask for.

What was once a spiritual paradise has become a traffic-choked influencer playground where the rice terraces are barely visible behind the ring lights.

You cannot touch the rocks, you cannot walk among them, and after a 90-minute drive from London you realize the photos made them look three times larger.

Thirty million annual visitors have turned floating Renaissance masterpiece into a sweaty queue where you pay twelve euros for a mediocre espresso.

Paying $2,000 a night to sit in an overwater bungalow only to discover there is literally nothing to do but post about it proves that luxury and boredom share a thin line.

The Canadian side has all the views while the American side offers a dated tourist town and the vague sense you're watching nature from the wrong angle.
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