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[Captain Oates 910]

Its not about content, its about cost. IE its cheaper to travel within a continent that outside generally speaking.

That is true. However the Germans and the Brits and the Dutch etc go all over the world. The brits have an excuse because they are escaping the rain - but they all go to Peru and New Zealand and the USA and all over.

Also, aren't Americans supposed to be richer and therefore more able to travel ? Perhaps that is the answer because 2% of Americans own most of the country's wealth. Perhaps that is the answer, that most Americans do not have the resoureces of most Europeans. Overall the USA is richer but only a few people have money. Hum, perhaps that is it.

[Captain Oates 910]

missing home?

you know there's a way to fix that.

I am at home dumbo

Edited December 10, 2010 by Alan the Red

[alienlovechild 75]

Also, aren't Americans supposed to be richer and therefore more able to travel ? Perhaps that is the answer because 2% of Americans own most of the country's wealth. Perhaps that is the answer, that most Americans do not have the resoureces of most Europeans. Overall the USA is richer but only a few people have money. Hum, perhaps that is it.

Compare vacation times among developed nations and how families are dispersed in the U.S.

Also try to work on your triple postings while sorting the mysteries of the universe and central Washington.

[Captain Oates 910]

Compare vacation times among developed nations and how families are dispersed in the U.S.

Also try to work on your triple postings while sorting the mysteries of the universe and central Washington.

vacation times - another good point.

See - if people post sensibly and do not get paranoid and defensive about 'America being criticized' we could all learn something

Differences are interesting and examining them adds to understanding

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

That is true. However the Germans and the Brits and the Dutch etc go all over the world. The brits have an excuse because they are escaping the rain - but they all go to Peru and New Zealand and the USA and all over.

Also, aren't Americans supposed to be richer and therefore more able to travel ? Perhaps that is the answer because 2% of Americans own most of the country's wealth. Perhaps that is the answer, that most Americans do not have the resoureces of most Europeans. Overall the USA is richer but only a few people have money. Hum, perhaps that is it.

Other than my low amount of vacation, I make roughly 25% more here in the US then I did in the UK (and I'm not in the top 2%...maybe the top 30%?)

edit actually its more like 35% more here.

Edited December 10, 2010 by Sousuke

[mawilson 2,133]

Also, aren't Americans supposed to be richer and therefore more able to travel ? Perhaps that is the answer because 2% of Americans own most of the country's wealth. Perhaps that is the answer, that most Americans do not have the resoureces of most Europeans. Overall the USA is richer but only a few people have money. Hum, perhaps that is it.

Most Americans I know are richer than most Europeans I know. Purely anecdotal evidence, of course.

[Captain Oates 910]

Other than my low amount of vacation, I make roughly 25% more here in the US then I did in the UK (and I'm not in the top 2%...maybe the top 30%?)

Net after tax/car insurance/property tax/health insurance ?

Have you adopted the American norm of not travelling abroad or do you still travel like a European ?

I had been to many US States and Canada before I got my GC plus every European country (EC) and Australia, NZ, Middle East, Ukraine, Yugoslavia etc and it was the norm amongst the people I knew

Some did all that plus Peru and Kenya and Singapore, Hong Kong etc etc

It just seems to me that Americans hardly leave the country compared to the Europeans and it seems to be money which doesn't trickle down in society plus short vacations

The ones who do travel stay in nice hotels and rent nice cars - so that would tend to confirm that rich Americans with time seem to travel in style and the others stay at home

[scandal 951]

Yup. That's kinda what I was thinking

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Net after tax/car insurance/property tax/health insurance ?

Have you adopted the American norm of not travelling abroad or do you still travel like a European ?

I had been to many US States and Canada before I got my GC plus every European country (EC) and Australia, NZ, Middle East, Ukraine, Yugoslavia etc and it was the norm amongst the people I knew

Some did all that plus Peru and Kenya and Singapore, Hong Kong etc etc

It just seems to me that Americans hardly leave the country compared to the Europeans and it seems to be money which doesn't trickle down in society plus short vacations

The ones who do travel stay in nice hotels and rent nice cars - so that would tend to confirm that rich Americans with time seem to travel in style and the others stay at home

I only really could afford to travel around Europe at the time. I don't own property in either country at this time. My salary was just lower in the UK with slightly higher living costs. Same profession etc.

[Captain Oates 910]

I only really could afford to travel around Europe at the time. I don't own property in either country at this time. My salary was just lower in the UK with slightly higher living costs. Same profession etc.

I don't think you or I are 'the average' so it's hard to tell - but people I have spoken to don't seem to have the time or money to travel

I get the impression that they don't have the inclination to travel anyway and I often wonder why that is.

I haven't quite bottomed it yet as the US is pretty 'foreign' to Europeans and yet they come to Florida without many worries.

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If your "country" is as big as the freaking garden state of course you travel abroad. Who wants to honeymoon on the jersey shore? Only if it was foreign and exotic where people talked funny and ate new things.

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I live there in a desert in Central Washington

Why did you move there?

[Captain Oates 910]

If your "country" is as big as the freaking garden state of course you travel abroad. Who wants to honeymoon on the jersey shore? Only if it was foreign and exotic where people talked funny and ate new things.

I love the travelling to other countries because of the difference and so if people have the time and the money, I don't understand why they don't want to experience this

Sometimes it's a bad experience (like in the nationalist areas of South Wales where I was called Saxon who looks like a Saxon) - but it's always stumulating

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I love the travelling to other countries because of the difference and so if people have the time and the money, I don't understand why they don't want to experience this

Sometimes it's a bad experience (like in the nationalist areas of South Wales where I was called Saxon who looks like a Saxon) - but it's always stumulating

There are neighborhoods within a 5 minute drive of me where it's like being in Guatemala or Brazil. Why go see the world when the world comes to you?

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I do wanna visit China, though. And Singapore and the UAE.