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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound terribly sheltered, OP. Grow up. [/quote]

And entitled. Even relatively recently, people I grew up around, middle-class/UMC, some wealthy, vacationed nearby. I grew up in the Boston area in the 1970s/80s, and everyone went to the Cape or Maine for a week to a month. The Vineyard for the summer if they were wealthier. That was 85%+. We traveled internationally because my parents' came from another country, and we visited grandparents every other summer. We were the exception.[/quote]

+1  I grew up in an affluent LA suburb and it was very unusual for a classmate to take a vacation outside the US.  My parents never took us outside the US, my first trip abroad was study abroad in college.

fyi,  about 40% of American adults have a passport and only about a quarter have traveled outside the US in the past 3 years.  [/quote]

This. Even for the American that have money, many lack the curiosity to travel abroad.

And even if they do travel overseas, many Americand are fearful of going anywhere besides North America or Western Europe. That’s been my observation since I moved to the US in the 1980’s.[/quote]

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