>Is it too expensive and too much of a hassle just to spend a week in a foreign country?
In the Internet Age, for most part. Unless you have a specific purpose to go somewhere, it's a waste of time. It's just a massive hassle to travel, and once you're wherever, it's more pressure to "make the most of the time", which makes it borderline stressful. That, and with so many niggers, poojeets, and chinks spread out over the past couple of decades, oftentimes it's "Paris shock" anywhere you go.