My Kiwi hubby says that much of Australian interior is inhospitable or dangerous to visit. In the U.S , climate and geography allow for much of the country to be accessible.What are your thoughts about the relationship between geographic accessibility and travel?

Must be nice to be able to afford traveling. I cant afford to travel out of my town.

First see the post about our access to vacation days and our low wages, extremely high inflation and lack of wages. Straight numbers, more Americans travel than Australians. Percentage-wise, much, much less because our percentage of underpaid citizens is astronomically higher.

The size may be the same but most Australians live near the coast. That makes it easier to travel to other countries. In the US If you live in the center part of the country it is a several hour flight to get to an airport that has direct flights out of the country. This is a large expense just to get to the point to leave the US which is very prohibitive on a tight budget and why most people don’t leave the country.

I wonder why that is? You guys get a lot of paid vacation over there? I've been with my job 3 years and I get one week's pay vacation. It makes it a little difficult to travel and so no need for a passport. Travel takes time and money. Our minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. As a server I make $2.35 an hour. Maybe that explains why such a large country is hard for us to travel. You can't do it if you're broke and are offered no vacation time or very little.

Lmao the more I see comments like this the more this thread makes sense 🤣🤣 So many Europeans and Aussies DON'T seem ready for the harsh reality 😂

Okay, compare air flight miles from the U.S. to the next country as opposed to Australia. We have Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean within a few hours. Then we jump to 8-12 hours and huge hassle and expense. Oh, and let's not forget that in the U.S. we have little time off work and the corporate oligarchy pays us as little as possible.

I was going to say this as well. Like that episode of the Chasers where people in the USA couldn't even identify Australia on a map.

And also, we read and watch stuff about other countries. We also don’t confuse the term “continent” with “entire world” 🙄

Yea but america has a lot more geographic change everywhere also.

Canada also has mass lands to travel across. Depending on which direction ur traveling it can take more then 8 hours to get across. We tend to travel still. I think the bigger thing for travel is accessibility to travel and time off to travel. I make good money, but I get zero paid vacation or sick days. So I do have to plan for my travel and make sure not only have I saved for the trip, but also to cover my bills while I am gone. Do I don’t travel all the time but I do try to go somewhere every couple of years.

Yes, but we get paid properly and get holidays off with pay. Unlike the U.S.

Perhaps you have better incomes and vacation time than people in the U.S. Many in the U.S. are the working poor and have little or no vacation.

well theirs a difference i like your reasoning but, the problem is first 40% percent of your country is unhabitabel adn every way the culture is different different cuisines, different sights and different land scape we have alaska which is insanely cold and then we have hawaii a tropical paradise we have the south which even has a different accent than us we also have the new england which is really just new york but thats one of the biggest cities int eh world. we have so many different things no state is the same

also have better general incomes than the majority of us do, so you know - you have the MEANS to do these things, the vast majority of us do not.

Because you're given four weeks paid time off. Not Americans. We're not guaranteed such luxuries. I'd travel if I could.

If I lived in Australia, I would want to travel also! Great to be able to avoid the poisonous critters that live all over the place in that country!

Yeah and how often do you take a road trip from one side to the other? Litteraly 0 because it's actually impossible.

yeah, but consider how much more domestic tourism we would do here if so much of the country wasn't empty. WA is bigger than Texas but there's a lot more options for local travel there than there are here, especially if you're looking for more than just outdoors and nature tourism

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There is nothing in Australia except sand, and Australians. Of course people want to leave. Dumbest comment ever.

This is a false assumption made by non-Americans, and I don't even know where it came from. In 12 years of schooling, we have 1 year of U.S. history. Just 1. No more, no matter what school system you were in.

Easy to get on a plane and go to a different country? Lol alot of people live paycheck to paycheck and can barely afford to spare the $200 for the passport let alone airfare, lodging and food that it would take to make that easy trip to a different country possible.

The original post didn't have great context, and the response is equally unsatisfactory. I point out that Texas has a larger population than all of Australia and multiple huge metropolitan areas. Add up two of the largest metro areas in the US, New York and Los Angeles, and the population far exceeds Australia--imagine what is inbetween. Of course Australians have to leave the continent to see diverse culture. The lower 48 states are highly diverse. You can be proud of leaving a few coastal cities more frequently, we can be proud of not having the need. Not to mention, our national parks alone are larger than half of western Europe.