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Originally Posted by 26MLR
less than 15% of the US population will ever apply for a passport and fewer than 5% will every actually leave the country.
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But if you want to know why this is, just think about the size of the US. It isn't like living in Europe where international travel is only an hour away; in order for most Americans to leave the US the travel is very expensive and very time consuming. So if they have a few thousand dollars to spend on a vacation (which is an expensive vacation to most people) they can spend 50% or more of that money and a couple days of their time on airfare or they can travel to another region of the US for a fraction of the cost and see a completely different geography, climate, and a somewhat different culture within our own borders.