The avg american doesn't have $1000 in savings so there's also that. but 4 to 40 percent in 20 years is damn good.
Again. I'm a traveler and been doing so since 84. Foreigners NEED passports to move around. Imagine being in Europe or Asia or Africa and you can't move around to the next country. Hell nah. Then having them early and it being a NEED, people naturally used it more.
In America, as people were saying. I can travel from NYC and vacation in Cali with no passport. Do you know how many countries I would be flying over on any other continent? Combined with everything else I said is the reasoning behind the thread. Nobody is arguing that non-Americans weren't doing that more and aren't still doing it.
Because at the end of the day, it still costs a lot of money. If you can barely take your kids to the beach 6 hours away, you're going to have a real tough time booking 4 tickets to Jamaica, even if they were $150 each. People don't got it. They got it to get to Miami, then all the people post memes talking about "fukk your bytch ass if you only go to Miami and Vegas."
I travel for a living. I take people on group trips internationally. Every single trip, people are AMAZED how cheap it is to travel. Because they are lead to believe it's expensive. We can do a 9 day to greece for 2k, no flight.. But do you think most Americans have $2500 laying around? Even more so to just blow on a vacation? And if they aren't traveling alone, that cost just doubles for a couple.... and with kids.... Oh boy....
I see the reasons and talk to people daily about this stuff. People are broke and been broke. They gonna go for what they know. And if you don't explain to them like they are 5, they'll never even see the beauty in leaving the country, to have the interest in the first place
