What is the farthest place you have visited and your opinion of it?

[Хahar 🤔]

This is a question for which there's not necessarily an obvious answer. The furthest I've ever traveled was from San Francisco to Dhaka and back (a trip I've made many times), but in terms of great-circle distance both from home in San Jose and from here in College Park the farthest away I've ever been is Singapore.

Dhaka is enormous and confusing. The streets are loud at all hours and if you are in a car you will constantly be approached by beggars during the inevitable traffic jams and the whole city is redolent of the aroma of the piles of garbage on the street and the pollution is such that the horizon is never visible. If you stand atop an eight-story building in Dhaka anywhere in the city you'll be treated to an endless cityscape of equally tall buildings on all sides as far as the eye can see. I've never been anywhere like it.

Singapore is a very nice place to visit and I'm disappointed that I haven't been in years. The weather is unpleasant, but what stands out is the impossible cleanliness of the place. The island has been scrubbed completely clean of anything that might look like a speck of dirt, and at the same time it's been scrubbed completely clean of all its history. There is no past or future in Singapore, only the present stretching endlessly across time. I wouldn't want to live there, but Singapore has certainly accomplished what it set out to do.