Excellent comment
I think one of the biggest problems people have is that they assume there is some level of skill present in food service providers and restaurants - There really isn’t.
Obviously many are skilled, but in a general sense, people don’t know what they’re doing with food and they just throw ingredients in a heap and heat it up.
The internet is filled with fake culinary people wearing blackly latex gloves, they have pig butchery tattoos, and they think a brioche bun is how you serve a hamburger. Like no.
I completely agree
And I’m hypocritical, because I have traveled extensively
Most people, and that includes myself, won’t even enjoy what is available in their own region
How does it make sense to go on a trip to Banff to go skiing, when there’s a slightly smaller mountain 45 minutes away that you just won’t bother going to? There’s 7000 museums in every city; There is natural beauty all around… go!
Go these places first, and once you’ve exhausted what is available next door, then expand horizons