Other than good old fashioned list bickering, whats the point of this? FWIW, my experience has always been that americans, in comparison to other industrialized societies, are not well-traveled in their country or others. *Especially* in other countries- whenever I'm overseas somewhere, you run into a fair number of backpackers, expats and travellers from europe, austrailia, israel and increasing east asia--- but almost no yanks, ever.
Even at home, too. A lot of the people I went to high school with have only ever travelled to vacation destinations. This is not all that strange or terrible a thing, altho I do think there's a relationship between americans' lack of travel, and their relatively provincial nationalism and incuriosity/lack of empathy for other peoples. But I think the travel thing is much more symptom than cause.
Of course there are always subcultural exceptions to the rule. In my early twenties I spent most of my time as a member of a strange sub-niche of punks called 'traveller kids', who do basically nothing but train-hop, hitch-hike and otherwise travel all over this country and the world, non-stop year-round. The current slang term (among older, grumpier punks like I am now) for these traveller kids is 'oogles'--- a derisive terms to refer to drunkpunk trainhoppers who always want to crash at your house, eat your food, clog your toilet, etc. They're a huge seasonal infestation in Brooklyn, New Orleans, Austin, Minneapolis, and the west coast.
There was an article in the post the other day about how Oogles are ruining williamsburgh.
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> But there are profound differences between New York, LA, and Houston,
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> less that are more than 100 miles from population centers like those
> three, etc.
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