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I take it the RR is Florida then.
I thought the Florida drunken japes were frat boys. And girls.
I take it the RR is Florida then.
I thought the Florida drunken japes were frat boys. And girls.
It hasn't gone up since the '70s.
@Roadster280
I take it the RR is Florida then.
I thought the Florida drunken japes were frat boys. And girls.
Fees are as shown below from the Department of State web site. It is $135 for a full passport book for an adult over 16 years of age. A passport card is available for $55 but it is only valid for travel to Canada and Mexico. Application is initiated at any US post office. .This seems a likely thread to answer the question.
Found this comment on YouTube - about why Americans tend to stay within their own borders:
Comment on a Hannah Hart video : My Drunk Kitchen
( Harto-sama talks about living in Japan for a year, side remark : ' Did you know only 10 percent of Americans have a passport ? That's crazy! ' )
Sarah Wendel 1 year ago
Only 10% of Americans have passports because its real damn expensive to not only get a passport but to also then leave the country. (Like I understand the importance of experiencing some culture shock and realizing that the world is much bigger than you think it is but its hard to do for most people.)
So, Question for those who are currently living in USA - How much is a passport ?
Question 2 - if you live in the very centre of the US [ I dunno - say...er...Mongville, Idaho ? ] - how hard is it to get to a 'foreign' country?
Canada or Mexico both count.
Question 3: This percentage figure is much quoted. What is the 2018 REALITY ?
Thanks
On this business of international travel. Some things to bear in mind.
The US is just about as geographically diverse as it is possible to be. There are, in no particular order:
Several mountain ranges. By mountains, I mean Alpine, Mont Blanc type mountains. There's nearly 200 mountains over 12000ft.
Arid desert and searing heat. Death Valley isn't called that for a joke.
Pacific Islands - Hawaii
Arctic tundra - Alaska
Wilderness - most of the the bit bordering Canada
Dense forests - most of the Appalachian region
Warm seas and silver beaches - Florida
Major metropolitan cities - the mid-Atlantic region from DC up to NYC is basically one huge metropolitan area
Enormous lakes. The Great Lakes are bigger than the entirety of the UK
There's 125 thousand lakes in the lower 48.
There's another 3 million in Alaska.
Stunning natural geological formations - Grand Canyon, Utah, Wyoming, Yellowstone etc.
Now if one happens to live in a country that doesn't have these, travel overseas is necessary and desirable to to see them. But if one happens to live in a country where it's not necessary to travel overseas, where you can speak your first language (mostly), use the same money, the same laws and customs (mostly), it's not too hard to see why many people have no need to travel overseas.
You want theme parks? There's 400 in the US. There's only 300 in the whole of Europe. You want Skiing? There's about 500 places to ski in the US. You want insane drunken bars? Go to the Redneck Riviera. Like arts and culture? Go to NYC or the National Mall in DC. Or even Gettysburg. Want to see living history? Go to an Amish area.
Of course if you want to experience different national culture, then you do indeed have to travel. To New Orleans
You missed out how poxy US holiday/leave is in comparison with Europe. Spams often don't have time to waste travelling too far - which is why you see gazillions of US retirees doing Yoooorp.On this business of international travel. Some things to bear in mind.
The US is just about as geographically diverse as it is possible to be. There are, in no particular order:
Several mountain ranges. By mountains, I mean Alpine, Mont Blanc type mountains. There's nearly 200 mountains over 12000ft.
Arid desert and searing heat. Death Valley isn't called that for a joke.
Pacific Islands - Hawaii
Arctic tundra - Alaska
Wilderness - most of the the bit bordering Canada
Dense forests - most of the Appalachian region
Warm seas and silver beaches - Florida
Major metropolitan cities - the mid-Atlantic region from DC up to NYC is basically one huge metropolitan area
Enormous lakes. The Great Lakes are bigger than the entirety of the UK
There's 125 thousand lakes in the lower 48.
There's another 3 million in Alaska.
Stunning natural geological formations - Grand Canyon, Utah, Wyoming, Yellowstone etc.
Now if one happens to live in a country that doesn't have these, travel overseas is necessary and desirable to to see them. But if one happens to live in a country where it's not necessary to travel overseas, where you can speak your first language (mostly), use the same money, the same laws and customs (mostly), it's not too hard to see why many people have no need to travel overseas.
You want theme parks? There's 400 in the US. There's only 300 in the whole of Europe. You want Skiing? There's about 500 places to ski in the US. You want insane drunken bars? Go to the Redneck Riviera. Like arts and culture? Go to NYC or the National Mall in DC. Or even Gettysburg. Want to see living history? Go to an Amish area.
Of course if you want to experience different national culture, then you do indeed have to travel. To New Orleans
Now that’s all fine and dandy (as I understand some of the natives are wont to say) but where in all that incredible flora and fauna can one find a (even half-) decent beer???
Have you seen where the steering wheels are in our cars? If we drove them on the same side as you lot and the folks in NZ ,Aussie err and some bits of Africa, we could have problems.and you still drive on the wrong side of the road......
Your post sums it up well @Roadster280, why would you want to go outside your own country when it has pretty much everything.
They still lack class and their (gun) culture clearly needs a re-think.On this business of international travel. Some things to bear in mind.
The US is just about as geographically diverse as it is possible to be. There are, in no particular order:
Several mountain ranges. By mountains, I mean Alpine, Mont Blanc type mountains. There's nearly 200 mountains over 12000ft.
Arid desert and searing heat. Death Valley isn't called that for a joke.
Pacific Islands - Hawaii
Arctic tundra - Alaska
Wilderness - most of the the bit bordering Canada
Dense forests - most of the Appalachian region
Warm seas and silver beaches - Florida
Major metropolitan cities - the mid-Atlantic region from DC up to NYC is basically one huge metropolitan area
Enormous lakes. The Great Lakes are bigger than the entirety of the UK
There's 125 thousand lakes in the lower 48.
There's another 3 million in Alaska.
Stunning natural geological formations - Grand Canyon, Utah, Wyoming, Yellowstone etc.
Now if one happens to live in a country that doesn't have these, travel overseas is necessary and desirable to to see them. But if one happens to live in a country where it's not necessary to travel overseas, where you can speak your first language (mostly), use the same money, the same laws and customs (mostly), it's not too hard to see why many people have no need to travel overseas.
You want theme parks? There's 400 in the US. There's only 300 in the whole of Europe. You want Skiing? There's about 500 places to ski in the US. You want insane drunken bars? Go to the Redneck Riviera. Like arts and culture? Go to NYC or the National Mall in DC. Or even Gettysburg. Want to see living history? Go to an Amish area.
Of course if you want to experience different national culture, then you do indeed have to travel. To New Orleans
The federal minimum wage for tipped staff is something like $2.50 an hour because it is assumed that tips will make up the difference. It hasn't gone up since the '70s.
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Well, mostly because you want to go and experience something different, not something the same with different scenery.
You need to define what "travel abroad" means before comparing numbers. The 12 million figure for US visitors to Canada is for overnight trips. The latest (2016) statistics from Canada puts overnight visitors (staying at least one night in Canada) from the US at about 14 million. More extensive figures for 2010 (the most recent I can find) put overnight travel to Canada from the US at roughly 12 million, but same day travel (returning to the US on the same day) at 7.4 million.(...) A2 - hard to cost but I don’t imagine it’s much different to Brits going to the US. In reality nearly 67 million Americans travelled abroad in 2016 so it can’t be that difficult. Mostly to Mexico and Canada:
For the most part, these travelers didn’t stray too far from home; more than half of the year’s international travelers — 37,403,398 to be exact — stayed within the confines of North America, with Mexico proving to be the year’s most popular destination (25,181,630 trips in total), followed by Canada (which saw about half that traffic, with 12,221,768 visits). Europe was the third most popular destination, with 11,831,870 Americans headed to the region, followed by the Caribbean (6,579,691), and Asia (4,388,391).US Government figures.(...)