Top countries you wouldn't visit

Well I certainly don't think I'd want to be in Syria right now, that's for sure.

Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team

I'm rather surprised that in the countries i wouldn't visit there are EXPATS that's unbelievable!

Somalia
Sudan
Lebanon
Iraq

Anyplace where dancing is illegal.

Every place where I need a male family member with me.

That too.  If I can't go outside without a man, forget it.

In my opinion, every place is good its your inside that makes that place bad. Just like beauty is in the eyes of the beholder...
My opinion u can disagree...

There are a few places I wouldn't want to go for a variety of reasons.
The UK - Been there, seen it and it's a drug infested dump.
America (USA). I just can't think of a reason why I'd want to.
America (All the bits south of USA) - I just have no interest at all. Maybe because I hardly know anyone from that continent and don't know much about it outside of the drug wars and the press coverage of them is probably inaccurate or fabrication.
War zones.
Rest of Africa - No interest - probably for the same reasons as south America but different news.

that last post seems too general. lots of places in south america are awesome however, if you can skip bolivia, i would. i live in bolivia and its better to just skip past it if you have the choice.

ChefJeff wrote:

that last post seems too general. lots of places in south america are awesome however, if you can skip bolivia, i would. i live in bolivia and its better to just skip past it if you have the choice.

but the South American countries just don't fire my interest...now, China I really want to see.
Just a matter of taste.

Hi,

Nice to know about so many reason & options for going & not going to different places. But I feel this planet is beautiful. If we can we should explore all 197 countries(which come under UNICEF).

That's my wish.

Priya

You need to experience a country before you can say whether it is a good place to visit or not.

I lived and worked in South Sudan for 3 years and liked the place and the people

2 years in Afghanistan in conflict zones and I found that country had a rugged beauty if you looked beyond the fighting.

Thanks stumpy for your post.

This is a precise example of what I like reading on expat-blog.com

Dreaming of going to USA but sorry guys recently Yahoo posted the top 10 most dangerous countries and US is on the 3rd slot hmmpppp....anyway it will really take time for me to go their. peace...

stumpy wrote:

2 years in Afghanistan in conflict zones and I found that country had a rugged beauty if you looked beyond the fighting.

I've only seen that place from the air but I would imagine it to be an interesting country to wander around.
Sad as it is, some people like to fight and that stops so many people visiting a country and finding out about new people and new cultures.
Ho hum, we can't stop it so I suppose we'll just have to hope they stop by themselves.

Meanwhile, I'll pop into the Afghanistan forum...just for a look.

India

It's probably easier for men to be open minded about places that stone women for not being with a man.  Other than that, there are a million places I'd like to see.

@HaileyinHongKong

I do not condone women being stoned by anyone any where but it has nothing to do with the beauty of the countryside itself.

I have seen death and destruction in many countries from Afghanistan to Vietnam but have always looked beyond all that to take in the physical beauty of the country around me.

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

It's probably easier for men to be open minded about places that stone women for not being with a man.  Other than that, there are a million places I'd like to see.

I think this is why the admin here don't like politics, a minefield at best.
The saddest thing about politics is, no one appears to tell the truth when lies will work better.
Newspapers do it to sell stories, thus advertising and politicians do it to sell their corrupt little selves.

Maybe we should leave this thread alone in case it develops into a silly argument with no conclusions but lots of ill felling......... as these things tend to do.

stumpy wrote:

You need to experience a country before you can say whether it is a good place to visit or not.

I lived and worked in South Sudan for 3 years and liked the place and the people

2 years in Afghanistan in conflict zones and I found that country had a rugged beauty if you looked beyond the fighting.

First of all you didn't reply to the thread,
and secondly  we have the media  Tv and newspapers, isn't that enough to see what the country is really like?  ( rhetorical question)

I think this is why the admin here don't like politics, a minefield at best.

Expat.com has never been interested in politics, and I also think this thread is a minefield.

I wonder if I shouldn't close it ...

Hericles wrote:

and secondly  we have the media  Tv and newspapers, isn't that enough to see what the country is really like?  ( rhetorical question)

No.
You have to open your mind instead.

The media lie...a lot.

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/

As for closing the thread, I can see the point.

Regarding being stoned:

Ever since I heard the expression "IN VINO VERITAS",

often I have looked till I found the bottom of the glass.

I never found the truth, but often ended up stoned.

El_Jost wrote:

Regarding being stoned:

Ever since I heard the expression "IN VINO VERITAS",

often I have looked till I found the bottom of the glass.

I never found the truth, but often ended up stoned.

Humour on a serious thread?
Terrible

I tend to find things are clearer if you never fill the glass in the first place.
What can I say, I'm just an old fuddy duddy that should be put out to grass.

Here are a couple of extracts from my blogsite on the subject of getting stoned. They are from posts telling of my travelling days (T- is for Travel) as a young man several hundred years ago. As Jost and Fred have said, there are nice ways of getting stoned, and not-nice.

Has anybody else on this list been stoned, not in the nice way?

From T-2, January 2012 (Zorba the Greek) "In idle moments, I wonder if any of them ever got stoned for sexual misbehaviour like the widow in the movie. Linda and I got stoned in Egypt, once, not in the nice way; but that’s another story."

From T-9, June 2012 (Stoned in Alexandria) "Only on one single occasion on our travels did we feel genuinely threatened. On that occasion, we got lost in a residential labyrinth in a poor area, and an impromptu gang of youngsters in Alexandria, Egypt began throwing stones at us. We represented the European invaders of 1956, to the uneducated stone-throwers - just as today, innocent Afghan wedding parties represent the bombers of the Twin Towers, to uneducated Americans. An older boy happened upon the scene and led us to safety. And if he hadn’t come along, somebody else would have done. Egyptian cities are very crowded places. The mother of one of the kids would have slapped some sense into them, I expect. We weren’t ever in mortal danger, though it was a bit scary. Served us right for intruding, really. We had pushed our luck, which is always a mistake."

stumpy wrote:

@HaileyinHongKong

I do not condone women being stoned by anyone any where but it has nothing to do with the beauty of the countryside itself.

I have seen death and destruction in many countries from Afghanistan to Vietnam but have always looked beyond all that to take in the physical beauty of the country around me.

Some of the most beautiful countries in the world have terrible social situations.  I'd love to be able to ignore the crazy things people do to each other and just go see the beauty, but like I said, it's not as easy for women to ignore certain things.

On top of that we do not need to see the WHOLE world we don't have enough lifetime for that.
I wouldn't visit Colombia because kidnapping is an everyday cup of tea everyday.

There is good and bad in  every country  its just media who make it look  worst

RoniFPVGT wrote:

There is good and bad in  every country  its just media who make it look  worst

Still What's the country you wouldn't visit? that's the topic.

Countries not to visit at the moment, for reasons of safety: Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, Iraq. Country not to visit because of unpleasantness at airports: USA. Until the US scraps its "gate-rape" procedures, it's off my list. I insist that my young granddaughters (aged 12 & 9) avoid flying via the US when they visit us from Europe because I don't want them traumatised by the intrusive "pat-downs" (read, "feel-ups") or subjected to the cancer-machines.

Who'd have ever thought that America would be in such rough company?!

Hericles, I think there are only certain identifiable places in Colombia that are dangerous, and that the country as a whole is safe enough. If the question were "What *cities* would you not visit?", then Medellin would be high on my list, but so would Marseilles and Naples.

I flew to Rome & Amsterdam last year and they never patted me down.  The American cancer machines worry me more.  They tell us they're safe, but how do they know?  Everything's safe until someone gets hurt.

Bingo!  who would have thought that USA  is not what the media tells us? ( rhetorical question) 
Many countries are instable politically, economically and socially so i wouldn't visit quite many.

Flowersatsunset: ""Gate Rape" Every country in Europe has the necessary pat-down...its precaution and women are never EVER touched by Men at the gates in any country including the USA. I travel to the USA a lot alone and I would consider it a pretty safe and secure country..Every politically stable country in the world has areas to avoid inluding here...I think some people are clutching at straws looking for reasons to hate on the USA."

1. I didn't say women were ever touched by men at US airports.
2. I didn't say the USA was not a safe and secure country.
3. I attributed my reluctance to visit the USA to its airport-security procedures, nothing else. From what I've read, those procedures are often much more intrusive than the security procedures in most other countries.
4. Resenting its intrusive procedures does not constitute a "hate on the USA." The US is a wonderful place jam-packed with wonderful people. Long may it remain so.

Come on, lady!

I think this is why they wanted to close the thread.
I believe it may be a good idea to do so.

I think everything has been said.

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