TL You'd Like to Visit, But Wouldn't Wanna Live In

[Emperor Norton I]

I'm curious, as there are many ATL's that are interesting but would be places some may not wish to live (whether because of dystopia, downfall of civilization, general upheaval, your party losing the election, your nation or people not existing, and so forth), what are some alternate timelines you'd like to visit but wouldn't wanna live in?

[Goldstein]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

I'm curious, as there are many ATL's that are interesting but would be places some may not wish to live (whether because of dystopia, downfall of civilization, general upheaval, your party losing the election, your nation or people not existing, and so forth), what are some alternate timelines you'd like to visit but wouldn't wanna live in?

DoD comes to mind. My hometown technically falls whithin Aragon, which could be by itself the hell of a Culture Shock.

Any Nazi Victory TL could be an interesting place to visit, specially if the Germania thing were to be done... but I guess I don't have to explain why those would not be my TL's of choice for a living.

I would be very interested in visiting "A much larger Rome that survvives until the present day", but I wouldn't live there for it's granted the cultural differences would make a life there very unconfortable... specifically, the Roman culinary attitudes were not suited for weak stomachs. I'm a Spaniard, but everything has a limit.

O Renascimiento de un Imperio's Lisbon would make a delightful visit, for I know well OTL Lisbon and I'm a bleeding-heart Lusophile, but I like my country as well, and it's kind of screwed ITTL... so, not a good place to live, I guees.

"We'll meet again" looks quite interesting as a visit, but as a place to live... Jesus, no. Same with Sternbergia in "20th Century Khan", and the Commonwealth's Boston in "Puritan World."

Finally, FWR's London in FabR can be an interesting visit, and then again, the FWR is not my place of choice. The TL itself, who knows -there is no info about the 2010 situation, but so far, it's not looking like a particularily bad place overall.

[Spitfiremk1]

TL 191 would be interesting to visit. But a socialistic, militarist USA, a Europe dominated by the Central powers and the fact that the term "Anglophile" ITTL is probably equivalent to "Neo-Nazi", means that i would never want to live...

Same with FabR. A larger British Empire's always good, but seeing the way it turns out makes my heart sink ...

Also, a great many TL's i would want to visit, but lack an Anglo-Australia, which writes them off the list...

[Vivisfugue]

I dunno...French with an Australian drawl might make a sexy combination. Koalas wearing berets, Kangaroos smoking Galoises... Plus the wine industry might have taken off sooner...

[Thande]

Probably the majority of the TLs for the simple 'grass is greener' effect. Dystopias obviously, but even TLs similar in terms of tech level and political liberty to our own would be problematic because of getting used to the differences. For example, the language would have diverged even if it's the analogue to your own country.

[The Red]

One were every man has died off.

[037771]

Originally Posted by Goldstein

"We'll meet again" looks quite interesting as a visit, but as a place to live... Jesus, no.

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[JN1]

I'd love to visit the TBOverse, just to see the hypersonic bombers etc, though I wouldn't want to live in a world where the UK surrendered to the Germans in 1940 and the US was forced to nuke the Nazis in '47. I also wouldn't want to be around for the biowars of the later part of this century.
I'd also like to visit my very own TL. It would be interesting to see just what the world would look like when shaped by my twisted imagination.

[David Floyd]

I'd love to visit the TBOverse. Come to think of it, I'd love to live there too, so I'm not sure that fits the context of the OP.

[MerryPrankster]

The pre-transhuman Draka TL would be nice to visit but not a good place to live, especially once the Draka unleash the Final War.

The Final Society might also be nice to visit if there were any guarantees the drakensis and their more dangerous creations (the ghouloons, goblins, etc) wouldn't view Homo sapiens visitors as wildlife (aka hunting fodder).

[mdc_1957]

The Peshawar Lancers looks like a world of adventure. But since the only people who speak recognizable English are either Mormon farmers or aging Sahib-log (not to mention the threat of the Satanic Russians), I won't be moving house there anytime soon.

If I were to make a CSA-esque mocumentary, visiting the world of A World of Laughter A World of Tears or perhaps All He Ever Wanted might make for good filming. On the other hand, I'd find myself either lynched by the Mouseketeers or driven insane by witnessing depraved personifications.

[John Fredrick Parker]

Napoleon-wanks in general don't sound promising; I've got a rough one where he destroys the United States, so that would definitely not want to be my home...

[area11]

I'd quite like to visit For all Time but stay there hell no. Also I'd like to see Jello Biafra's Reds TL but to be stuck in the mega-capitalist right wing Anglo-French Union no way.

[theReturner]

The Berlin of In The Presence Of Mine Enemies or Fatherland would be cool to visit, considering all the trouble the Nazi's have gone to rebuilding the city. Obviously I wouldn't want to live there, since I would probably stick out.

[Emperor Norton I]

I'd be interested in visiting "1984", seeing how the rest of the world is doing and drinking a little watered down Victory Gin. I wouldn't like to stay there for obvious reasons, and staying too long would probably get a one way trip to a reeducation center.

[arrowiv]

I would be interested in seeing Germania in a Nazi Victory timeline and its Axis satellites to see how they fare but I would have to pass on seeing London in a 1984 TL. Hope to see that TL get updated soon!

[loughery111]

I wouldn't mind visiting the Alliance for Democracy (Drakaverse) in the early nineties. Aside from that, I would love to see an ATL where Nationalist China never invaded Taiwan and underwent its economic boom thirty years ahead of schedule. Could go for the Peshawar Lancers for a bit, just to see a functioning difference engine and apparently the biotech is cool... but I don't speak Hinglish...

EDIT: Oh I would absolutely love to see somewhere else in Oceania in 1984... I hold to the theory that Oceania exists only in Britain and the rest of the world isn't as much of a hellhole.

[Jello_Biafra]

Wir Sind Spartakus! might be an interesting place to visit, but the USA is only likely to be more reactionary in that timeline, so it might not be a good place to live in.

[BlairWitch749]

I'd be curious to stop by and visit the world, that the red and I created in "failure before moscow"... but given that the soviets win the cold war, i wouldn't want to stay there

[bulbaquil]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

I'd be interested in visiting "1984", seeing how the rest of the world is doing and drinking a little watered down Victory Gin. I wouldn't like to stay there for obvious reasons, and staying too long would probably get a one way trip to a reeducation center.

I'd like to visit 1984 with (1.) a bullhorn, (2.) an IMMEDIATE means of travel back to OTL (as in, no more complicated than "push the button that my finger is already on"), and (3.) a gun, upon which I would proceed to shoot the nearest telescreen (and there would be one), shout through the bullhorn "BIG BROTHER IS NOT WATCHING YOU," and then vanish into Reality posthaste.