All countries are different, tell me a fact about your country.

blackbird9 said:
I've noticed over the years that melbourne, adelaide, vienna, copenhagen... always seem to be near the top!
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I want to go to Morocco one day. Maybe even southern extremes where mines are. You can see conveyor belt to sea from space.

I hope to sail my boat directly from home to Morocco when I win the lottery tonight. Atlantic Ocean destinations I dream of.
 
Phishfry said:
I want to go to Morocco one day. Maybe even southern extremes where mines are. You can see conveyor belt to sea from space.

I hope to sail my boat directly from home to Morocco when I win the lottery tonight. Atlantic Ocean destinations I dream of.
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Yes, you will enjoy in Morocco. I did!
But try to go to Corsica or Sicily or Serbia and enjoy their life and they will help you :)
 
fernandel said:
Phishfry said:
I want to go to Morocco one day. Maybe even southern extremes where mines are. You can see conveyor belt to sea from space.
I hope to sail my boat directly from home to Morocco when I win the lottery tonight. Atlantic Ocean destinations I dream of.
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Yes, you will enjoy in Morocco. I did!
But try to go to Corsica or Sicily or Serbia and enjoy their life and they will help you :)
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Hey fernandel thanks for recommending Serbia! Although, no jobs here in the mining industry, if Phishfry is interested in it - China owns almost all of that and they are replacing local folks with their workers (as I heard from my friend who works as geologist in our biggest copper mine, and he's happy that they still need him).

Other than that, just say that Jokić and Đoković are GOAT, that '99 was bad mistake and everyone will be your friend.

Phishfry, if you like good food, hard drinks, amazing night life (although TBH, it's not as good as used to be), don't give 2 eFs about law nor politics, but have respect for tradition and local customs, Serbia can be right place for an expat.

Blair In Belgrade is a YT channel of an US gal who after lot of traveling around the world found her happiness here, but TBH she represents us in a waaay too positive light.
 
My land, Croatia, is quite known for its touristy stuff.

Here are some less known facts that make life in this country great - we're the least sound polluted EU member. The protected nature areas total up to almost 10% of the surface. Tho small (56 thousand km2) the country lies in three European climactic and four biodiversity zones, from mediterannean/adriatic to alpine/dinaric, continental and pannonian. In this regard we 'match' big and spread-out countries like France.
 
Zare said:
My land, Croatia, is quite known for its touristy stuff.

Here are some less known facts that make life in this country great - we're the least sound polluted EU member. The protected nature areas total up to almost 10% of the surface. Tho small (56 thousand km2) the country lies in three European climactic and four biodiversity zones, from mediterannean/adriatic to alpine/dinaric, continental and pannonian. In this regard we 'match' big and spread-out countries like France.
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There is a small island in Croatia named Prvić, which had so clear night skies that Astronomical Society from Zagreb (Croatian capital) had a branch office there (I'm taking about '80s here). Mind the telescopes, they had bunch of original and Croatian made Apple II+ clones, and despite their best efforts they couldn't get rid of me, so at the end they let me use available machine if I promise to be quiet and do my basic BASIC without bothering other people working on astro software and calcs.

IMHO, Croatia has most beautiful coast and islands that one can find in Europe.
 
LoganGreystone said:
We have the same disease but since symptoms vary greatly from person to person, our progress may give us different problems. Good luck with yours! 🫂
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And all the best to you my dear, but this thread is not the place to discuss our personal issues, I mentioned it only in the context, but if you want - please feel free to drop message in my inbox, I'll be glad to exchange experiences and remedies that kept me (relatively) functional since '08.
 
vmisev said:
Hey fernandel thanks for recommending Serbia! Although, no jobs here in the mining industry, if Phishfry is interested in it - China owns almost all of that and they are replacing local folks with their workers (as I heard from my friend who works as geologist in our biggest copper mine, and he's happy that they still need him).

Other than that, just say that Jokić and Đoković are GOAT, that '99 was bad mistake and everyone will be your friend.

Phishfry, if you like good food, hard drinks, amazing night life (although TBH, it's not as good as used to be), don't give 2 eFs about law nor politics, but have respect for tradition and local customs, Serbia can be right place for an expat.

Blair In Belgrade is a YT channel of an US gal who after lot of traveling around the world found her happiness here, but TBH she represents us in a waaay too positive light.
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I think the world in general got a little more puritan. More accustomed to hand rails and hipnotic pacifiers.

There may also be that for a couple of decades there, electronic sound production was an unexplored frontier and attracted avante-guarde types making wild music. Now it's all been solved and they changed the name to "EDM" and all the old cowboys make generic house music.

Oh well, the memories remain.
 
lost_in_c said:
I think the world in general got a little more puritan. More accustomed to hand rails and hipnotic pacifiers.

There may also be that for a couple of decades there, electronic sound production was an unexplored frontier and attracted avante-guarde types making wild music. Now it's all been solved and they changed the name to "EDM" and all the old cowboys make generic house music.

Oh well, the memories remain.
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IDK, I'm gen X, so this quote applies to me more than any other:
“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”
― Marcus Brigstocke
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I played a lot of Pac-Man as a kid and then spent my twenties running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to psytrance 😎 🤷‍♂️
 
In the town I ended up in, they used to just take over a random warehouse. The rave would end when the police showed up or the drugs ran out.

Those literally don't exist anymore. They rent a place lol and get permits. It's just not the same.
 
lost_in_c said:
Those literally don't exist anymore. They rent a place lol and get permits. It's just not the same.
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That still happens in places, from what I can tell. I do, however, miss monkey bars in the middle of paved parking lots.

But then I see people on the beach during a storm, and they have their backs to huge waves that crash over some really sharp and obnoxious cliffs, they snap selfies, completely oblivious to the danger - a random wave very well can knock them off their feet if they're not paying attention. And I'm thinking, WTF? werent those morons taught to pay attention and be aware of their surroundings and their own limitations? Just a bit of being aware of surroundings, just a bit of embarrassment that they can't swim - that's the difference between a fun outing and a trip to the emergency room...

If people can't even watch out for themselves, and use shame as motivation to learn a useful skill that saves their ass - then who other than police would step in to protect people from the consequences of their own stupidity?

If you can't swim, that's a shame, go learn water safety that is appropriate for your situation. 👿 If staying away from water is all you care to learn, you're missing out on a lot of fun in life.
 
vmisev said:
Raves were boring, that was mostly techno, industrial at best – psy is the real thing!
As old saying goes:
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Hahahaha I always hated psytrance people. They were always doing the wrong kind of dope.

In my mind, neither was the pinnacle (though hardcore raves were miles of fun), but jungle, in all its incarnations. Until Skrillex hunted it down, raped it, scalped it, and left its rotting corpse to the vultures.
 
I'm still trying to hunt down a bottle of whiskey that is as old as I am - and that stuff only gets more expensive as I procrastinate on that.
 
lost_in_c said:
Hahahaha I always hated psytrance people. They were always doing the wrong kind of dope.
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Be free to call me elitist, but I'll make comparison: Raves were mega popular but turned commercial and boring, sorta like a Linux in our world, but psy was for the people who understood what's really good and didn't mind staying 'underground' to be with what they love – sorta like BSD's 😎

BTW, I don't know what was popular in the US as 'recreational', I met only few US gals in Africa on parties, but I can promise you we had the the best stuff to choose from (mostly of natural variety, but kicking like a bull). You know those videos on YT of accurate representations of Biblical Angels? Not quite accurate, but close – I know because I had few conversations with them (and some arguing too 🤷‍♂️). That kind of parties 😁
 
No hahahaha that is not what I doubt, I won't delve into details to protect any potential wayward youth. It's not the strrength, or the undergroundness, that I disagreed with. It was too cerebral, too abstract. I needed a bit of slime in my dirt. It's true that, as I witnessed the underground burn down around me, psytrance pretty much basically stayed the same.

I can only imagine the quality in a place like South Africa.

I did like a little shakeassing.
 
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