I understood Baygon to ask which country you consider most boring to live in. The "everything's exciting for tourists" observations - valid though they are - don't really address it.

I have travelled a little, mostly on business. I would definitely choose Switzerland as the country in which would dread most to have to live. Finland comes a close-ish second.

It mostly has to do with the people, of course. Particularly their sense of excitement and curiosity. Or lack thereof.

Do we have Swiss or Finnish contributors to this thread...?

Who get's to define boring?

I'm at my happiest and most interested doing things that many others would consider chores and their entertainments can bore me to tears. A few other posters here have mentioned a love of science fiction, how long does it take to get bored with access to a ready supply of good book's. Would CJ ever be bored in a country where he had access to a quiet river (fish optional) and a few quiet beers? For others of us playing in the garden or tinkering in the shed and it's bliss. With access to the internet some of us can be entertained for a long while.

If we are constrained to do something we find uninteresting most of us can suffer some boredom but for the most part it's a choice.

R0bert

Pericles, "Switzerland"

+1

For cities, our very own Canberra in the winter would be hard to beat for deathly dull. Has to be, everyone who can afford a ticket out leaves for hols, public holidays and weekends wherever possible. It is an exodus.

Boring is a word I try to avoid. Boredom is usually from within and of our own making.

I have lived in some pretty small places and some larger places - contrary to what most people might think the smaller places tend to have more going for them for social and community activity. Maybe it is because they have to make their own fun for the most part and we all tend to take for granted those things on our doorstep in the big smoke.

Cornflower I love Canberra during the exodus. No queues whatsoever and peace and quiet on the roads.

I crave a quiet life in the country that some might abhor.

A bit of fresh air, water to swim in, a few good books, plays, music, chooks, ducks, geese and a vegie patch and I am happy.

Interesting comments todate. They do confirm the arguments by Bok in his book the Politics of Happiness - material goods very quickly pale and become boring. Indeed the consumer society is based on the premise that we need to be kept dissatisfied for that is the spur to consumption.
Places are not boring, rather it is our opportunity to live a fulfilling life that makes a place boring or not. For me good conversation and good books are sufficient - thank heavens for free libraries! Both of these can be had anywhere but some environments seem more conducive to both of these - Rome and Paris come to mind but I can also find the same here at home - picking up my mail from the shop, weekly training with the country fire service and a regular trip to the library make this sleepy place of ours of just 300 people a wonderful place to live. (Of course most would dismiss it as a boring little place.)

Fascinating thread. I used to get around a lot, often to some pretty exotic locations. Nowadays I live in a particularly nice, but very quiet, part of rural Oz.

I can't imagine being bored. There's so much to know and do, and such little time in which to do it. There's so many wonderful and fascinating places that it doesn't really matter all that much where I live.

We're thinking of moving to NW Tasmania in a few years' time. I'm quite sure it won't be boring :)