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Traveler's Dilemma: More Places or Longer Stays
01-11-2016, 11:15 AM
If you've got a block of time set aside for travel you can go one of two ways. You can pick a few select spots, settle in to them, find a regular(s) chick, learn the places in and out, maybe take a few minor side trips but essentially set up shop for long enough to get comfortable.
Or, you can stay on the move, 5-8 days in any given location, cover as much ground, see as much shit, and chase after as big a variety of pussy as possible.
There are obviously a lot of benefits to longer stays. It takes a minute to get a feel for a new city, it's less exhausting, you can give more leads with more girls time to develop, etc. In terms of working out and personal development it's easier to go about business as usual if you aren't packing up and shipping out on a week to week basis. On the other hand, there are a lot of cool places in any given region of the world, and for me it is hard to cross places off the list when I only have a limited amount of time to travel.
I personally lean towards the shorter stays/more destinations side. For context, I am going to Mexico for 2 months beginning in Feb. and I'm trying to make my mind up on how many places I want to visit. I think ~7 will be the sweet spot for me, which factoring in travel time means about 1 week per city.
What's your style, which do you prefer?
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Traveler's Dilemma: More Places or Longer Stays
01-11-2016, 12:18 PM
The good ol' traveler's dilemma... so many places to see, so little time. If you want to go crazy and trot around the globe putting your footprints all over the place, give yourself permission to do that. But after a while, it must get tiring and it would be nice to settle in some place you like the best for a while.
Personally I'm doing the former until I find a place I like, and then I'll settle there with an occasional side trip every couple months.
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Traveler's Dilemma: More Places or Longer Stays
01-11-2016, 12:49 PM
Here's a strategy that I inadvertently pursued thanks to my last full-time job:
1) Travel as fast as possible to all the places on your list. Basically, get a "thin-slice" of each place. Use Roosh's busted dudes test, and see what IOIs you get on the street.
2) Once you finish the list or get tired, pick a place based on its "thin-slice." Stay there for a month and see how it pans out.
3) If the place doesn't pan out, go back to step 2.
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Traveler's Dilemma: More Places or Longer Stays
01-11-2016, 01:23 PM
How much value do you get from short term travel?
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Traveler's Dilemma: More Places or Longer Stays
01-11-2016, 01:45 PM
Quote: (01-11-2016 01:23 PM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:
How much value do you get from short term travel?
WIA
For whatever reason, I always assume I won't get much, if anything. Usually I just assume my informed guess is correct.
But then, when I drag my lazy ass into doing so, I'm always surprised at what I get, even out of short-term travel.
For example, when I visited Lviv during my last border run, I was surprised at how young the city was, and how densely it was laid out - making it ideal for London-style daygame, at least on the surface.
More than anything, what I've found is that it's too easy to subconsciously dismiss other people's experiences, such as posts on this forum. But when you experience - or don't experience - the same thing yourself, it's much harder to dismiss that experience.
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Traveler's Dilemma: More Places or Longer Stays
01-11-2016, 02:48 PM
I agree, the most important thing for me is getting off the couch and out of my bubble. Even if that is just hitting up a different city for a long weekend. You don't know what you're going to get. Kinda like you never know when you're going to see two chicks yanking patches of hair out pulling some worldstar shit if you stay at home and never get on the subway.
Trips < 7 days always end up flying by and I feel like I have to cram stuff in. Obviously I wish I could have more time, but I never regret going.
I was more referring to how people prefer to spend their longer 1 month+ travels.
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Traveler's Dilemma: More Places or Longer Stays
01-11-2016, 06:54 PM
Why not play it by year and give yourself flexibility? Don't make any long term plans or reservations. If you aren't feeling a city, move on after a few days. if you settle in nicely in a city and meet some quality girls, extend your stay as you see fit. This way you don't lock yourself in one way of the other until you have a feel for things.
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Traveler's Dilemma: More Places or Longer Stays
01-11-2016, 07:10 PM
More places=more flags
Longer stays=better quality
It depends what you're going after.
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Traveler's Dilemma: More Places or Longer Stays
01-11-2016, 07:13 PM
Here's something I've noticed about traveling and girls...
You can fuck the same chicks on a 1-2 week trip as you would on a 3-4 week trip. You'll be banging pipelined girls from online game and girls you pull in rapid succession from the club (one night stands and first date lays off numbers). I don't convert many day game girls in short trips and maybe convert a few over a month.
By staying somewhere around three months, you close day game chicks and high quality girls. Girls who won't give you the time of day unless she thinks you are "living" in her city.
Thus, I personally only do trips of ten days to one month or trips of three months.