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In response to "this applies even more to mainland-europeans, I think -- nm" by marcel

I always hear them comment about us not having passports. Most of us can't afford to leave the US so why get a passport?

Posted by Krusty (aka Krustylu) Sep 28 '14, 12:36

It's really expensive to fly to Europe, forget about Asia or Australia. So few people can afford those types of trips so we just travel around the monstrous country we live in. Most of us don't even do that, sadly.

They're right that we don't travel as much but it's just internationally and it's because of the cost.

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that relational walking/driving distance thing is really common, lots of my Los Angeles friends think getting to portland from San Fran is a couple hr - zeitgeist Sep 28, 12:49
To prove your citizenship in the coming authoritarian state. (Also, maybe somebody rich will unexpectedly fall for you and want to whisk you off to - mara Sep 28, 12:45 3
- Haha! :-) -- nm - Krusty Sep 28, 12:47 2
  - It could happen! -- nm - mara Sep 28, 12:52 1
    - An authoritarian state? Of course, we're getting close. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Sep 28, 12:54
Mexico, Canada, etc. -- nm - loosi at home Sep 28, 12:40 11
- Any for the longest time you didn't need a passport to go to Canada. - Krusty Sep 28, 12:46 10
  - 25 minutes - marcel Sep 28, 12:53 4
    - See! That's awesome! - Krusty Sep 28, 12:58 3
      - but these countries are so big! - marcel Sep 28, 13:01 2
        
        Oh, I know. You can't drive through most of them in a day but you can get there in one. - Krusty Sep 28, 13:04 1
        
        I know what you mean - marcel Sep 28, 13:10
  - I needed my passport for our Alaska Cruise because we ended back in Vancouver B.C. Also the Carribean cruise we needed it. Jax got his first one - Bacon Sep 28, 12:49 4
    - I assume you also don't need one for the Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico. - Krusty Sep 28, 12:53 2
      - Believe it or not, I needed one to fly to Guam. -- nm - loosi at home Sep 28, 13:05
      - Puerto Rico I am pretty sure you don't need one. Virgin Islands are US and British so depends. US islands you are fine without -- nm - Bacon Sep 28, 12:54
    - I think Budice got his first passport that trip as well -- nm - Bacon Sep 28, 12:52
there's not really a need to leave a country that has so much to offer as the US - marcel Sep 28, 12:39 4
- I am dying to see Europe. I want to spend a few months just going country to country. I *need* to visit it Italy. - Krusty Sep 28, 12:50 3
  - Italy and Greece coastal areas is where I want to go -- nm - Bacon Sep 28, 12:51 2
    - I want to see as much as I can. From the small villages to Rome. From the coast to the mountains up north and even those dirty Sicilians. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Sep 28, 12:56 1
      - They will make you an offer you can't refuse -- nm - Bacon Sep 28, 12:57

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I always hear them comment about us not having passports. Most of us can't afford to leave the US so why get a passport?

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