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What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.

Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?

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[–] 24 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Marble is expensive in places where there isn't already a lot of it simply because it's HEAVY.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    But it also isn't used in the fancy rich places simply because it's expensive, it's also because it's beautiful.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    I feel like it's 80% the expense. If most rock was like that everybody would be looking for boring sandstone.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Do rich people in Greece import sandstone?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Good question!

    I would guess not widely, just because rich people get around, and standards of luxury are more interconnected than that.

    In the past, you have things like spices being worth their weight in gold in Europe, and cheap in India. Or how the Inuit prized wood because it didn't grow anywhere they lived. Aluminum was a luxury metal originally, and there's stories about Napoleon using it for cutlery as a step up from silver.

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