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US Citizens: Are you one of the 47%? Do you have a passport and have traveled?

Do you have a passport? Have you traveled?

  • I have a passport and have traveled internationally

    Votes: 41 73.2%

  • I have a passport but never traveled internationally

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I never had a passport

    Votes: 5 8.9%

  • I used to have a passport

    Votes: 6 10.7%

  • I've only traveled overseas with the military

    Votes: 3 5.4%

  • I refuse to leave the country

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • WTF is a passport? Travel is stupid

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • Total voters
    56
Threegoofs said:
For those who are curious, I have held a passport since college.

I've traveled a bit internationally, most of Europe, Turkey, UAE/Dubai, Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Belize, Guatemala, Peru, Canada (although weirdly, I've never been to Mexico).

I believe that one cant get a decent understanding of the world unless you leave the US at least a bit.
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Would your logic also include foreigners posting on this board about American issues who do not live here?
 
I have a passport and I've traveled some outside the country. I've been to Germany, Canada, and the Caribbean.
 
I have a passport. I've been to Haiti, Japan, and Canada numerous times. Although I don't think having a passport correlates to education. Travel is also expensive, not everyone can fork ovet 2k+ for an overseas vacation.
 
Nap said:
I hate seeing all these maps like this. Just about everytime I see one I know Mississippi is going to stick out. I think I need a safe space :(
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That sucks, dude. How much longer do you have to be there?
 
Phys251 said:
That sucks, dude. How much longer do you have to be there?
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Most likely until I retire. Mississippi is actually a pretty nice place to live, it is just the reputation the state has and the reaction people have towards you when you say you live there that is the problem. Making 6 figures in Mississippi provides an extremely nice life, I doubt I could live like I do here anywhere else on just over 100k salary.
 
Nap said:
Most likely until I retire. Mississippi is actually a pretty nice place to live, it is just the reputation the state has and the reaction people have towards you when you say you live there that is the problem. Making 6 figures in Mississippi provides an extremely nice life, I doubt I could live like I do here anywhere else on just over 100k salary.
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Around Jackson, maybe for some. But there is a reason your state ranks near or at the bottom in terms of nearly every standard of living for which we have a measure.
 
Phys251 said:
Around Jackson, maybe for some. But there is a reason your state ranks near or at the bottom in terms of nearly every standard of living for which we have a measure.
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I'm not saying it's the best but when you factor in cost of living it is hard to beat MS. The only real downside is stuff to do, but I'm only a couple hours away from Biloxi, New Orleans, or Memphis.
 
Phys251 said:
Around Jackson, maybe for some. But there is a reason your state ranks near or at the bottom in terms of nearly every standard of living for which we have a measure.
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So what? That doesn't mean that people can't find Mississippi a good place to live.
 
PoS said:
Ive moved permanently overseas ... and I still have my passport.
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Interesting how one gets to live long term abroad.

It's none of my business how you did it, but in 1996 I set out abroad for one or two years, three max, to get out of my system a long held notion to experience life abroad. Yet here I still am as a non-immigrant resident abroad.

Six of the years in fascist China in two different stays, twelve years in the tropical paradise of Thailand in two stays also, a couple of years at my first destination, South Korea.

Prepping now to resettle in Europe with a Chinese corporate electronics manufacturer moneybags I've consulted for in PRC and who's taking his fortune to bigger and better things, i.e, real estate in Holland. His family is already in Amsterdam. He with myself and his Chinese yuppie neighbor, whom I call 'Pip' of the Great Expectations character projected to the present day PRC, will be shipping over after the Chinese New Year.

I'd never intended even remotely to still be living abroad 20 years after wandering off the reservation back then. I'd had a passport nine years before I used it so I had to get a new one shortly after my arrival in S Korea. (The current passport has had two sets of additional pages added to it due to my many travels and visa runs combined.)

Americans who don't travel, and who do not live abroad any appreciable time (3-5 years typically), have no idea how the USA is both admired and respected abroad while also being hated and despised. A lot of it is jealousy, or envy, but a lot of it is just flat out hate. Too many people from native English speaking countries that I've met in my residencies abroad want fascist China to rule the world. Being in East Asia, to include SouthEast Asia I meet a lot of native English speakers from Down Under.
 
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Mac77 said:
Would your logic also include foreigners posting on this board about American issues who do not live here?
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Nonya.
 
Travelling is great for everybody. Americans should for sure.
 
Threegoofs said:
Actually, its 46% of Americans that hold passports.

I would imagine at least half of those people, if not more, have never used it outside of Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean.

Moreover, if you look at the distribution of passports within the US by state, it correlates really well in terms of red and blue states. This probably correlates pretty well with voter education, too.


So..US citizens - do you have a passport? Have you traveled internationally? Has your international travel been only from the military?

Here's a nice breakdown of the current passport distribution in the US. Lots can be inferred by this - I would imagine on a lesser board, this would start a lot of flame wars. I'm sure thats not the case here.


How Many Americans Have A Passport? | TheExpeditioner Travel Site

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Hold on. 46% of Americans have passports. 47% don't pay taxes. Hmmm....maybe travelling makes one want government handouts....damn liberals.

I have a passport (I also pay taxes), but I have not been outside the country since I got back from Russia in 2009.
 
rocket88 said:
Hold on. 46% of Americans have passports. 47% don't pay taxes. Hmmm....maybe travelling makes one want government handouts....damn liberals.

I have a passport (I also pay taxes), but I have not been outside the country since I got back from Russia in 2009.
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Fear not because once Trump is sworn in Russia is coming to you. Could be that sometime soon after January 20th all Americans and all Russians will become dual citizens of each country.

It could be called, in one of Putin's infamous Putinisms, the "Dictatorship of Democracy."

That's straight from the mouth of the KGB and old line Chekist Vladimir Putin. Putin does of course pay taxes :lamo Trump too btw.

Maybe under Potus Trump there'll be a revised 1040 Long Form in which you can perhaps designate your taxes to go to Russia where everyone pays Putin the Piper and where every tax rubble, er, ruble, gets its (nuclear) bang for the buck.
 
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Threegoofs said:
Actually, its 46% of Americans that hold passports.

I would imagine at least half of those people, if not more, have never used it outside of Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean.

Moreover, if you look at the distribution of passports within the US by state, it correlates really well in terms of red and blue states. This probably correlates pretty well with voter education, too.


So..US citizens - do you have a passport? Have you traveled internationally? Has your international travel been only from the military?

Here's a nice breakdown of the current passport distribution in the US. Lots can be inferred by this - I would imagine on a lesser board, this would start a lot of flame wars. I'm sure thats not the case here.


How Many Americans Have A Passport? | TheExpeditioner Travel Site

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No I do not have a passport.My only travel to another country was because of military service. Right now I see no point in getting a pass port because I do not plan on traveling outside the US. Sure if I won a free trip somewhere, had the time and lot of spending money I would get passport.
 
One factor in the map not discussed is having proximity to an international airport. Connections are a hassle and probably dissuades people from international travel. The border states have shifted mostly to passport cards since the shift. I wonder how that factors into the numbers.

The US is so big that you can see so much without ever leaving the country. There really are regional variances but there is still the common thread. Who doesn't know that the first thing you see after being welcomed to Virginia is the radar detectors are illegal?


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