Australians romanticise the socks off Mexico's Mojitos, blow the bitters off Europe's Old Fashioneds, melt their minds off Morocco's Mahia and slurp Bali's Bintangs faster than an F1 racer drives up a straight.
We also tend to see Australia as a big boring slab of Great Northern (or VB).
Put another way: Australians romanticise overseas holidays.
But as we recently reported, the sun isn't always shiner in far-flung locales.
Though you may romanticise the carefree times you had in exotic destinations, guess what? The reason you had so much more fun going out on that Euro summer break or on that 6-month south-east Asia backpacking trip wasn’t because of anything special in the sand – it was because you were on holiday.
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So although there always be an element of ‘the grass is greener’ in the travel industry (and that's ok), it's also good to know there are fun times to be had where you live too – you just have seek out people who are on a ‘let’s have fun’ wavelength rather than a ‘don’t talk to me I’m trying to sort out my life admin this weekend’ one.
Likewise, when you make the decision to live overseas rather than stay briefly somewhere, you soon find many (if not all) of your dating woes from your home country have followed you.
Though there are some advantages (a fresh start and potentially a sense of greater freedom to 'be you', for one) to dating overseas, there are also new challenges.
As expat anthropologist @thecanggupole has made a name for itself pointing out, if you choose to relocate to Bali then a whole host of new dating issues might crop up on your radar.
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Why? Well, judging by @thecanggupole's recent posts, the entrepreneurial, insecure, ambitious, self-serving, creative, alluring spirit of Bali's digital nomads doesn't just apply to their online businesses.
As a recent image posted to the account's Instagram story suggests (reposted from pilates and yoga instructor @theomahafox), expats in Bali are growing tired of single guys who jump between dates quicker than they do 'revolutionary' business ideas.
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Looking through the Canggu Instagram geotag and hashtag pages, one can get a sense for the ~chill~ lifestyle many (apparently) single dudes (and for that matter non-single dudes) promote in Indonesia.
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The Canggu Pole has also skewered other aspects of expat culture like faux spirituality...
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... as well as the nuanced culture of helmet wearing.
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... and the questionable Instagram captions expats and holidaymakers post from time to time.
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It's also worth pointing out that Instagram accounts like @violetclair which make fun of pop culture and dating trends in other parts of the world like New York, show that this 'back up' phenomenon is not unique to Bali, but a worldwide phenomenon.
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You might also be interested to know it's not just Bali where expats have dating woes. Tourists and expats living everywhere from France to Iceland have thrown themselves at the internet for advice, seeking a framework to re-asses the brave new worlds of romance they now find themselves in.
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