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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?
Pic unrelated.
Not my country, but something that fascinated me in Greece. Greece is a land of honey...and marble rock. Beautiful, swirling, sparkly rock in all different shades. It is so terribly abundant that they use marble in place of concrete.
To the Greeks, it is normal to use marble literally everywhere. They disrespect the beautiful stone, turning it into a curb on the street & slathering it in yellow paint. I saw a yellow curb that was cracked open - exposing the glittering marble rock inside. I found it so funny & sad that I took a picture. We love marble, we think it's so decadent & fancy, it's flooring in the finest hotels, businesses, and homes. These people just use marble everywhere; it's just a rock to them. ๐
It really puts things into perspective.
Marble is expensive in places where there isn't already a lot of it simply because it's HEAVY.
But it also isn't used in the fancy rich places simply because it's expensive, it's also because it's beautiful.
I feel like it's 80% the expense. If most rock was like that everybody would be looking for boring sandstone.
Do rich people in Greece import sandstone?
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.
It wouldn't surprise me if fancy people in Greece would use granite instead.
I grew up in a place that looks like Greece, but the rocks are red.
Same thing - amazing mesas and red rock plateaus and craggy mountains? See it every day. Meh. Crystal blue seas? I can't stop starting and being amazed that something that color is real.
Though, I have noticed that very flat and forested places give me a sense of claustrophobia. When you're used to being able to see 20-50 miles all the time, not being able to see anything more than 200 feet away is strange. It makes the world seem so small and trite.