The Real Reasons Why Many Americans Don’t Travel Internationally

I heard a lot during my travels from friends in the international community that Americans don’t travel because they’re self-absorbed or arrogant. And then I came upon this thread. I wanted to contribute something no one else was addressing in the comments, so I made this video. I hope you find something in it that’s useful.
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[doombeagle]

A European asks you how many kilometers away someplace is, an American asks you how many hours it is. We live on different scales, and think in different scales.

[Steve-nbkg]

45 minutes to Paris? Takes me an hour just to drive to the airport.

[gedog]

That paycheque to paycheque thing is something less visible and understood. 🇺🇸 is rich, the people of the USA are often not.

[MsMorganGirls]

From my mother's front door to mine (Florida to Wyoming), it's 1, 998 miles. Four day trip. When I visited my daughter in France, we walked to Germany. That blew my mind.

[danieldaniels]

I live in Phoenix. When I drive 45 minutes, I'm still in a suburb of Phoenix.

[bobc]

I live in Texas. I can drive south for 6 hours and still be in Texas.

[charleholst]

When Europeans want to get away from winter weather, they go to Spain; we go to Florida. When they want to ski, they go to Switzerland or Norway; we go to Colorado. From my home in Milwaukee, i can drive for three days and still be in the US.

[andrearace]

A lot of people can't even afford to do fun things in their own city, let alone their own state. It isn't even bad money management. It's actually good money MGMT, because if you ever want to buy a house, get an education, reliable car, etc. you're saving EVERYTHING you don't spend on bills.

[NarrowPathDiaries]

Most of us are too broke to travel outside of our own state. So there’s that too

[hannahpricekarlsson]

So true! I think you hit the nail on the head. For most people, it’s not arrogance, it’s lack of time and money.

[razenburn]

I'm Aussie and lived in USA.
The money issue is something I'm glad you mentioned. Making USD at your minimum wage levels was the most exploited I've ever felt in my life. Traveling is not an easy task with pennies.

[rhofernandez]

I live in Houston, when you drive to El Paso, that’s 12 hr drive and you’re still in Texas.

[danamarie]

You can fly from Heathrow to almost any major city in Europe faster than you can fly from NYC to LAX. And that’s just the continental U.S.

[SometimesMyself]

In Europe, you can hop on a train and in just a few hours, you’ve traversed multiple countries. In the US, you can start at one coast and drive 10-12 hours per day at full speed on the interstate for 5 solid days, just to reach the other coast. I know, because I’ve done both.

[tenacious]

I once met a man from Africa who told me how amazed that here in America we can travel from one state to another without a passport. I didn't think it was that big of a deal but to him he was just in awe.

[pal]

Yes! I'm 57 and have wanted desperately to travel internationally my entire life. Time, money and family obligations kept me tied here and now my health. My dream is dying and its enormously depressing.

[roxcyn]

Reasons I’ve heard: no vacation time, no money, no desire, a phobia, or too much of a hassle. So no, it’s not arrogance at all. It will vary from person to person. Then there are people like Travel Sensei who travels everywhere - just loves it.

[BigDaddy-drgf]

I'am a US citizen and have been very fortunate to have travel abroad quite extensively. Have visited every continent in the world, with the exception of Antarctica, but that is on my bucket list. I have also traveled to every state in the US and in my travels it has always amazed me at the diversity of culture and geography in our country. Take CA for example. One can travel from deserts, boreal mountains, inland valleys, ocean coast, redwood forests, delta waterways, chaparral hills, large urban cities to small farming towns and never leave the state. That is just one state in fifty.

[darrennew]

I had an exchange professor from Hungary who was going to take a day to drive around the Grand Canyon in one day. When I pointed out how big it was, he said "You have national parks bigger than my entire country?"

I was talking to a woman who moved from England to the USA to be with her husband. I asked her how she liked it, and she told me it was so hot and dry. Apparently, she'd never left Las Vegas Valley in the whole time she'd been in the USA. I was like "did you notice the circle on the map that says Death Valley? Pretty much everywhere outside that is nicer."

[susanlisson]

Well the same goes for Australia. 🇦🇺 It takes over 45 minutes to travel from one end of Perth to the other. I’m always jealous of people living in Europe who get to travel to different European countries in a few hours. It takes about 5 hours to fly from Perth to Sydney.