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Honestly, India.
It has just an insanity and intensity to it that you won't find anywhere else. The drawbacks are real, the filth and trash is on another level, the poverty can be emotionally paralyzing to witness, the food just spectacular, but first and foremost the nature and the pure adventure that you can still find in spite of the social mediafication and digitalization of everything.
I was there 25 years ago so before the forced digital enema that took over the world, and it was a once in a lifetime experience I deeply cherish to this day.
I went there last year again and while much of the mystery is lost because of the above, India is simply so massive and diverse that it still gives that culture shock arriving from a Western country.
I've been to rural India. The culture shock is wild. The emotional toll of seeing some of that poverty is truly upsetting. It's hard to gauge what's distinct poverty, what's just a culture norm, and what's a norm due to the poverty. I know some people home that act like safety is for pussies, yet they're still way safer day to day than the things I saw in India with traffic, crossings, vehicle repair, construction, farming, cooking, smoking, and just the air quality alone. Social media may have keyed me into expectations for Delhi, but the rural areas were well outside what I expected to see. Now I recognize it all the time in various manufacturing or tool hack videos on socials.
Anything involving a queue is downright infuriating. Apparently that's a general Asian thing, or at least the places where western countries exploit low manufacturing cost. I don't know the rules and don't want to start a fight by accident so I just do my best to maintain progress through the "line"