>>2797457>all recipes exist online or in local restaurantsThere are some ingredients / products that you literally can't get in your home country. That's how abominations like General Tso's Chicken get invented.
>all knowledge can be found onlineView Picasso's Guernica online, and you get shitty pixelated images due to copyright. View Picasso's Guernica at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, and you're overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it allowing it to give you its full emotional impact.
>I can just go on /int/Talking to some anon who might be trolling with a VPN vs. meeting people who actually live there, including boomers or peasants who might barely even use the internet. Also you can't have sex on /int/.
>completely superfluousYeah again, /trv/, Google Earth, and Rick Steve's are decent and all, but have fun ziplining, mountain climbing, drinking, and dining on /trv/. At least u don't have to worry about visa or passport issues.