Opinion: What your vacation says about you
By Arthur C. Brooks, New York Times
Twenty-three years ago, my wife and I were having an argument about how to celebrate our first anniversary. Money was tight, and we had to choose between taking a beach vacation or buying a couch, which we did not have. Being a Spaniard, she naturally advocated for the beach. As a thrifty American, I argued for the couch because it was permanent. In the end, we compromised — we went to the beach.
Vacations say a lot about people. For one thing, where people choose to go indicates how much they like to be around others. In new work in the Journal of Research in Personality, psychologists from the University of Virginia quizzed college students about their geographical preferences and found that introverts prefer the mountains while extroverts prefer the ocean. The researchers found more evidence for this when they looked at who actually lives where: Residents of especially mountainous states were more introverted on average than their counterparts who live in flatter places.
This finding is fairly intuitive. In the mountains one can easily find seclusion and isolation. Meanwhile, beaches tend to be crowded places full of seminude strangers, a potentially unappealing scene for introverts but exactly the point for extroverts.
What your vactaion says about you. Come to Lake Tahoe! We have it all right here! Majestic mountains, beautiful streams and our amazing high mountain lakes and of course beautiful Lake Tahoe itself.
Bring your sandnals for a stroll along the beaches bordering the lake and bring hiking boots for a walk along our miles of trails thru the pines and aspens. Don’t forget the mountan bike as we have miles of trails and sights to see. Bring along your fishing pole cuz I have a feeli’n the the fish will be a bittin’ this year and next.
Americas All Year Playground. Old Long Skiis
Well said OLS – you should be on the Visitors’ Board and the SLT Chamber of Commerce! :-)
Funny, mountain people are super friendly, so wouldnt that be extrovert? I think how they spend their money tells more about a person than where they go does.