• VitoRobles
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    4 days ago

    The sample size that travel are a minority. A large percentage of Americans don’t even travel out of the country.

    Worse, I thought it was like a specific type of people. But my company did a poll to gauge where we should have our company retreat, and 80% admitted to not having a passport.

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      It’s a scary thought because I think it’s universal in all cultures all over the world. I’m in Canada and when I tell most people I’ve been to Europe, they assume I’m a millionaire that can afford to travel because even though some of these people have more money than me, they can’t even think of the possibility of flying outside the country.

      When I visited the UK, we stayed at a place just outside London … a small town that was about an hour train ride away from the city center called Bracknel. We were just exploring in a rental car (we nearly had accidents about twice a day). We asked people for directions to the next town or a few towns over and they couldn’t tell us because they had never been there. When we talked to more people, we realized that most of them had never left town and couldn’t think of traveling further than London.

      • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
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        I think in England a lot of families have lived in a certain area for centuries, catch public transport, go on holiday to European destinations, and literally have no need for that information