quicko: bali, fiji, oh, i wanna take you

Bali and Fiji sound tremendously exotic to me, yet are popular tourist destinations for Australian families, some of whom venture there on a near annual basis. I have been continually floored until I pieced together that, really, Bali and Fiji are relatively equivalent to Americans going to Puerto Rico or Jamaica. Vanuatu, Bermuda. Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago. Etc, etc., etc. Sure my family didn't vacation there (I've actually set foot on Fijian and Samoan soil but have never yet been to the Caribbean), but it was by no means unheard of to go.