Comments for entry "The Vacation Country" at Dilbert.com Blog

Comment from BryanK2

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If planing your vacation is hard for rich people, why don't they go with some exclusive travel agency? Isn't TA's job to plan and execute your vacation while keeping your efforts on a minimum?

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Comment from ogheri

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please, visit our country (or, as we'd like to say "auar cauntri")... there is wonderful food, nice people, and if you want to get rid of someone that you do not like,we let him / her "sleep with da fishes" Greetings from Italy!

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Comment from lpolak

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You'll want to read England, England if you haven't already - it's the logical conclusion of your 'vacation country' concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England,_England

Comment from Teleton12

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This might be a good idea to get rich Americans to stay within the country, but currently outside of the U.S. this won't work that much. The scary storys of TSA/customs/police abuse basically killed what was a pleasurable vacation experience. Personally, if I hadn't made so many friends during previous US stays I'd no longer fly there for fun - there are better vacation experiences available. Oh, and since the introduction of the EURO currency planning and booking trips has become so much easiert that it would not be a competetive disadvantadge.

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Comment from crogers23

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Your idea of a nice vacation spot is different from mine - you might want to go to Las Vegas or Miami, but I'd much prefer Yellowstone park of the Grand Canyon. Not all tourist spots can be manufactured.

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Comment from Rangitira

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Nice idea but it already exists: New Zealand. The country has stunning scenery ranging from deserts to subtropical rain forests and alpine ski resorts - all within an easy few hours drive on mostly untravelled roads. It is very clean and unspoilt. It routinely scores as the least corrupt country on earth. It is politically stable, has medical and financial facilities as good as any other developed country, and it is comparatively safe in terms of violent crime. Best of all it is isolated, so every man and his dog can't buy a charter flight cheap ticket to get there and clog the place up. You can actually go there and not be surrounded by other tourists - something that is not easy to do anywhere in Europe or USA. Best of all - visitors have human rights. After many years as a tourist and business traveller to the USA I will not return until they start to treat visitors as anything other than dangerous criminals. I've had it watching my kids get patted down. The terrorists have already won when you see what it is like there now. Europe - nah. Clogged with fat sweaty English package tourists shouting at the locals or vomiting in the street and wearing Manu U football shirts. Queues for everything worth seeing. Rippoffs abound. When you come to NZ, allow time for a trip to see our Aussie cousins too - fabulous country, so different to NZ and yet familiar to us at the same time. Aussies have a very different environment and urban scene to New Zealand, but well worth a look. If I couldn't be a Kiwi, I'd want to be an Aussie.

Comment from whtllnew

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A guy I knew had a similar experience going through Canadian customs EMU except in his case they gave him a hard time-and cost him hundreds of dollars-because they considered furry art (cartoon like pics of humanoid animals for those of you who don't know) to be child pr0n. So its not just the USA that can have problems with how they treat visitors.

Comment from RavenBlack

TuePMCDTE_Rthth

@Melvin1: "high speed rail; $240 million/mile!" That's not a meaningful number at all though. First, for context, a 3 mile extension of Highway 509 was expected to cost $1.3 billion, so that's more than your $240M per mile of rail to build an equal stretch of road. Second, the cost to build it is a small part of the overall cost - there's maintenance, which is generally more expensive for roads than for rails, and there's the cost per person or ton of using it. According to one study, with all things considered, a laden high speed rail train is equivalent efficiency to a car with five passengers. Since the average car is moving approximately two people, a high speed passenger rail would only need to be, on average, two fifths full to be more efficient. Note: that study was comparing high speed rail *built from scratch*, plus maintenance, against already extant roads, so maintenance only, so in the longer term the comparison would be even more favorable to rail. However, my observations in the US are that "public transport" is horrendously overpriced to use, leading to few people using it, leading to it not actually being efficient at all. To actually run efficiently it would likely need to be not trying to be profit-driven, or at least recognizing that twice the passengers at half the price should be considered a preferable model.

Comment from EMU

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"My proposed solution is to start now and turn the United States into the world's most awesome vacation destination, not just for the rich, but for anyone who has the means to travel." Step ONE: Change your treatment of tourists at the border. Asking for fingerprints, meal preferences (veggies are terrorists?), membership in a union (whatever for do you need this?) means you view me as a potential criminal, terrorist or whatnot. Additionally, asking me to sign away any rights of appeal on the entry form is plain bullying and an invitation to arbitrary justice. Thirdly, if ever you get hold of my data there's no way for me to enquire about it or make you check, fix or delete the data. I've been to the US twice before 9/11 and I'll probably go there again if and when you have stopped being a police state. But until then there's /nothing/ you can do to make that country attractive enough for me to jump though these hoops at the border. I've grown up in east germany and "Erkennungsdienstliche Behandlung" is something I just don't accept anymore. (That is, not without actually being arrested for something that justifies it.)

Comment from OneMist8k

TuePMCDTE_Rthth

I lived in Venice Beach, California for spell. It was puzzling out why it was so popular with German tourists. I'm not bashing California (though I could), just Venice Beach. To any prospective tourists reading this, listen closely: IT IS NOTHING LIKE THE MOVIES!!!

Comment from Melvin1

TuePMCDTE_Rthth

It would be cheaper to ferry individuals around in stretch limousines. I love the tourist idea, and the engineer in me loves high-speed trains - plus who doesn't enjoy the idea of traveling on them. But they're far too expensive for the sparsely populated US. The Orlando-Tampa line was proposed at $2.4 billion to go 84 miles - ten years ago. But using the 8x realistic multiplier* that amounts to $240 million/mile! (Hence it was cancelled). Try building that loop around the US. Private jets might actually be cheaper. *Since I live in Massachusetts, I'll use the Big Dig. Proposed cost: $2.8 billion. Estimated final cost including interest: $22 billion. That's eightfold - interestingly, the same amount as Phantom's example, the Oakland-Bay Bridge.

Comment from whtllnew

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Your last comment makes sense, PhantomII, except for two nagging details. The first is context. Its clear from the rest of boingballs comment that he means fascist as in restricts personal freedom and quite possibly as an insult too, not in an economic sense. As an American I don't feel like the restrictions on my freedom cross the line into 'fascism', though I might be willing to accept Ghostriders comment that America is less free in general and less free for foreigners in particular than parts of Europe. The second is extent. You mention Solyndra as if that one event represents a drift towards economic fascism. Sorry, but you'll have to do better than that.

Comment from callcopse

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To me the interesting bits of a place are just not visible if you are rich anyway. You just won't see them, as you will be coccooned in the lap of luxury etc. You won't be going to the only Texan barbecue that still uses an open pit (I lusted for this after watching Man Vs Food recently) as you will be eating interchangeable Michelin nonsense. Live in a place properly for a minimum of six months to actually see what it is about. Sure, there are going to be really bad bits from actually meeting real people, but otherwise how do you get any dynamic? Perhaps that is the experience that needs to be sold to jaded palates? On the other hand I'd probably prefer to leave the 1% in their own self-imposed private hades. I don't envy them that asepct, quite the opposite. "Things will only get worse when robots start doing all the hard jobs, say in twenty years, which I hope is your lifetime. The poor will get poorer while the rich will own stock in the robot factories and get richer." Marshall Brain, who created HowStuffWorks.com, (and is quite right wing but perhaps geekily so) wrote about a couple of directions things could go in this fascinating story (I have recommended it to the house before, sorry): http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm