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Virgin Runway: A Travel Destination Chosen In The Hopes That No One Else Has Chosen It.
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Virgin Runway:
A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has
chosen it.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
Expatriate Solipsism: When arriving in a foreign travel destination one has hoped was undiscovered, only to find many people just like oneself
he peeved refusal to talk to said people because they have ruined one's elitist travel fantasy....
Native Aping: Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Terminal Wanderlust: A condition common to people of transient middle-class upbringings.
Unable to feel rooted in any one environment, they move continually in the hopes of finding an idealized sense of community in the next location....
Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Dorian Graying: The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs of aging.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Spectacularism: A fascination with extreme situations. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X