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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people don't like airports and their intrusiveness
some people don't have the $$
some people are homebodies
[b]I know of a lawyer family in the metro area who have never traveled outside maryland/Pennsylvania/VA; so it's not likely $ alone...[/b]I meet people in their 20"s who have never been on a plane...[/quote]

I went to undergrad in upstate New York, 200 miles from New York City. Some locals living in that town have never travelled to New York in their entire lifetimes - and it was a four-hour-drive, at best. When I asked some of them "Why?", the answer was "Never wanted to".

So I believe it's not just about the money (although, international travel can be prohibitively expensive for a lot of people), it's about a person's interest in what's going on at the other side of the fence, so to speak. Some people are amazingly apathetic.[/quote]
I know people from NYC who have no desire to travel because they feel all the culture/everything is already in their city so why bother?
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So, it sounds sort of like the residents of Sao Paolo, huh?  Who apparently prefer to explore in their own country instead of traveling abroad.  But don't let that stop our Brazilian poster from applying a double standard to Americans.[/quote]

There's no double standard. You're talking about 2 different posters.[/quote]

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