American culture is at best boring and at worst terrifying. There’s the obvious things, like guns, violence, racism, police brutality, politics, nationalism and celebrity worshiping that make it pretty low on most people’s lists of places to go.

When bother when the world has so many cool places?

Uh, no. Most of the people I talk to don’t really have a strong interest in going there for the above reasons. Maybe New York for a visit, but that’s it.

Not a culture I’m particularly interested in but you do you.

People usually go to places that:

1. offer good value for money
2. offer an exciting, culturally-rich lifestyle.

The US and Canada offer neither. They’re expensive and the only culture they offer is capitalism.

I’ve been in a similar situation to you, with the ability to pretty much go anywhere.

I’d say go to Bangkok.

In the past year I’ve been to Lisbon, Porto, Madeira, London, Birmingham, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Barcelona, Paris, Toulouse, Marrakech, Düsseldorf, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Shanghai and Perth.

Out of all those places I spent longer periods in Lisbon, London and Bangkok.

In my opinion Bangkok is the best because it’s a friendly cyberpunk jungle with great food, interesting nomads and a shit load to do. It also won’t kill your bank account like London. The biggest downsides are the traffic and heat but you can work around the traffic and you get used to the heat.

But yeah, obviously it depends on your personality… am just sharing my experience! Bangkok is awesome and my fav for living. If it were just a week (totally different criteria) I’d go Paris, London or Hong Kong.