Kansas, most of the states' names are words from Native American, Spanish, laugne other the first thirteen colonies were colonized by English but most Americans claim German heritage. Our closest neighbor is a mile and a half away, I love my privacy have large yards around my house and free-range chickens, ducks, geese, and genies and I raise cattle and crops also.
I am from Northern Wisconsin and yes I have a passport. It was going to be used for my career. Charity my wife to be was from Kenya. We were working to work 6 months in the States and 6 months overseas. Medical field. We make most of our money in home health Wisconsin Michigan Ohio. Among others, then provide medical services to the poor in Kenya at whatever they could afford as well as medical services in United Arab Emirates Then branch out from there. However Charity received her BSN in nursing I almost had my MSN in nursing NP in May 2017 June she went to her sisters in Ohio. By mid June came down ill. Admitted in a hospital in Columbus. ICU Cancer with Met. Died July 1st 2017. She was a strong woman and is to this day missed.
Grew up in Georgia near the Florida line. Ancestors were from Northern Ireland. And no, we do not need ID to cross state lines. There’s no border check or anything. It’s just the road with a sign that says “Welcome to” whatever state you’re entering.
@@wheredidthetimego8087 Arizona here. On trips to California there are Agriculture checks to make sure you are not bringing in anything that might damage or infest citrus, fruit and vegetables in California. Arizona does this also sometimes to protect our agriculture if there is a pest (fruit flies and the like) in California
I also wanted to address the gun topic. I grew up around guns as I come from a hunting family. Rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Single shot, bolt action, pump, and semi automatic. I have never experienced nor have anyone I know experienced gun violence in the United States. I know one kid who was shot accidentally, and two others who had gun violence incidents in foreign countries, but not the US. Most gun violence happens in cities due to drug or gang related issues. That is my personal experience. Thanks for taking an interest!
Agree and most guns used in gun violence are not used by the registered owner. what dumb criminal would use his/her own gun in a crime when it can be immediately traced back to them!
Way back in our History, guns were necessary to shoot game in the wilderness and when the Revolution came along, the colonists had guns to fight. Because it’s a huge country guns were needed for food and protection as the country grew. During the Great Depression before WWII, my Dad kept his family and neighbors fed by shooting game, as did many Americans. It’s a part of our long History, am 76 years old and never been threatened by a gun! You must register and have a background check to buy a gun. Sadly gangs and criminals don’t get them legally. Think of immigrants coming legally and illegally into a country. Hunting and shooting at gun ranges are a sport here plus game is sold at restaurants. We have a huge wilderness here.
America is really closer to how Europeans think of a continent than we think of the US as a country. States have their own laws and cultures. A Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island “Clam Chowder” are all different soups. I live in Florida and where I’m at is heavily Greek and British so we get a lot of that influence but drive 2 hours and you will hit places with stronger Cuban or German or Puerto Rican or Jamaican populations and it changes the culture and especially the food. I mean you go up towards Louisiana and they have a culture all their own.
Actually the there are FOUR clam chowders : New England; Manhattan; Rhode Island and ROCKY POINT. If you're not from Southeastern New England, you won't understand.
You're very right. We even have multiple states that are bigger than some European countries. And another example is in Michigan. There area around Dearborn has the largest Middle Eastern population in the country and it heavily influences the food there but drive thirty minutes north and there's a historically large Geman population and you see it everywhere, especially the food. Same thing in Texas. ~A!`f`ter `Katrina a huge amount of people moved to Texas and you can find tons of Creole food and culture right along with Mexican and what we'd consider 'cowboy' culture of BBQ and soul food. Not to mention a huge Asian population and extire sections of the DFW area that are akin to Chinatown in San Fransisco.
ALSO, you didn't need a passport to go to Mexico or Canada until recently. So, you could do everything in North America without a passport. Unless you were a businessman who needed to go to Europe/Japan, you didn't need a passport for the most part.
My favorite thing about these videos as an American is you don’t know something that is a part of your life is interesting until someone else looks at it and goes “what the fuck is that?”
I’ve had my U.S. Passport since I was 22 years old. I’m much older now! Prior to 9/11 we didn’t need a passport to travel to Canada, Mexico and most of the Caribbean. Now we do. But we don’t need a passport to travel to U.S. territories such as the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam.
@@ik7578 I don’t believe a “Real ID” drivers license will get you into Canada or Mexico. I think a passport is still needed for international travel to Canada and Mexico. I believe the Real ID is for domestic travel if you don’t have a passport. I’ll have to check it out.
@@ik7578 So apparently the Enhanced Real ID WILL allow entry to Canada but only by vehicle or boat at border crossings. You can’t fly in. And the Enhanced Real IDs are only available in a limited number of states.
One of my 2 half brother's is a UK cop. He had told me that the UK firearm homicide rate is fixed. As in, if you get shot in the UK but die in the hospital due to that gunshot wound, then it is counted as a death in the hospital and not death by a firearm.
I really appreciate you sharing this and it's so obvious that they're trying to shame us when our gun rights save lives!! They're all in denial and they have horrible knife violence also so, what's the actual difference?
I live in South Carolina, USA and I am 68 years old. I have a passport only because we took a cruise in 2014 but have no desire to leave the US on any more trips. We have beaches and mountains within a 3 to 4 hour trip and they are in South Carolina and they are beautiful. I feel very blessed to live in the United States.
West Virginia mountain girl here! I do have a passport, but it’s long since expired. As much as I would love to visit certain countries overseas, it’s just too expensive for me; I travel and sightsee vicariously through UA-cam videos. Meanwhile, crossing state lines is as easy as driving across or even walking from one to the other. Every state is so different from each other, you can get a whole different experience just by visiting a few. To a degree, each one can be thought of as a mini-country that just happens to be part of a bigger one. Every state has its own unique culture and identity, and most of us are proud of our home states. We’re willing to rattle on about how cool or different that state is for ages, if someone’s interested enough to ask. Our states are as much a part of our identity as America itself is.
Ohio here. It's true most Americans don't have a passport and never leave the country. We have a vast and diverse area to explore domestically. We have two huge mountain ranges, Florida beaches, lakeside holidays in Michigan; you really have everything you'll ever need here. Besides, many of us can't afford international travel. I went to Canada once in 1997; that's it. Also, I own 11 guns. It's a mixture of handguns, shotguns and rifles and I can attest that these guns don't float around at night and commit crimes. That's entirely on the operator. Ngl, if I could afford more of them, I'd buy more of them. I'm an enthusiast of sorts
And y’all are the reason my family is actively seeking asylum overseas. What the fuck is wrong with you? No one is threatening you. This isn’t Russia (yet). Is it just because you have a small one? Get a therapist, not a fucking AK47.
New Hampshir “ Live Free or Die” here, but split my year over in Maine. I used to have a passport but not going to all my previous destinations were too much money. If I shop around and am flexible on dates I can generally get $200-300 round trip from Boston or Manchester to LA and back. The last flight to Seattle was under $200. I herd they’ve been over booking the flights and if you’ve got a tight connection flight you’re screwed. Most people don’t have the $$$ to do a trip out of the country
FYI Soccer is a term that was created in England! It was short for "Association" of football. The term stuck here while in England you changed to using just football.
Georgia here. I had a passport a few years back when I went to Italy and France. I went to Canada when I was young and didn't need a passport to cross the boarder. You can travel from state to state without a passport or any types of papers. The USA is so large that there is always something new to see and experience.
You should acknowledge that while you don’t need travel documents to go state to state, all adults are required to carry id. Drivers license, state id, service id, I don’t know if school ids count. You have to be able to identify yourself (or be able to be identified if there is an accident or you become one of those fatalities). Why make it hard? Lying in a hospital, unconscious and alone, no way to notify your next of kin. Or in a lonely morgue, also with no way of notifying your next of kin.
North Carolina here. No, we don't need passports to cross state borders. Going from one state to another is free access, no check points. Basically, you'll only know which state you're entering by road signs saying "Welcome to North Carolina: or "Welcome to Florida" etc. I do have a passport and use it mostly for ID when more than one ID is asked for, I have used it to go to Mexico.
The word soccer comes from Oxford students in the 1880's as a way to differentiate the two sports. They called Rugby football "rugger" and association football "assoccer" which was eventually shortened to "soccer".
Heya! Some missing information from the football segment: Before industrialization, sports were played primarily on horseback. Once people who weren't wealthy enough to have horses had more time to actually organize and develop formal sports, these sports were collectively referred to as football, since it was a game of ball played on foot rather than horseback. As these games solidified into the big 3 football games of football we know today (soccer, football, rugby), they developed official leagues and standardized rules. The British specifically took a liking to the Association of football, which they referred to as simply asSOCiation football and later even more simply as soccer. American football was a newer sport at that time, and the two sports made it to America as football and soccer. Soccer never really caught on in north America, while football never caught on in Europe. Following our split from Britain, the British did as they often do and changed their mind, collectively stopping referring to soccer by its association roots and instead referring to it as football once more. Meanwhile, rugby traveled to Britain's other colonies, Australia. Thus, you have the division of the three main footballs
5:35 These numbers actually represent firearms deaths for which only 1/3 are homicides. The vast majority are suicides and the others are accidents or justified shootings.
You could still technically cross into the US from Canada with a drivers license at certain border crossings up till 2019 if you had a then enhanced drivers license. But it was discontinued
Your videos have cheered me up while I’ve been sick in the ICU for a little over a week now. It’s been a great distraction after feeling terrified after I turned blue and nearly died from the blood clots that are in my lungs and heart. Thanks, having videos to watch has helped keep me sane😂 (somewhat lol)
It's a shame that small usable trucks have been outlawed. If you want a usable bed, giant sizes are literally the only option if you want a vehicle made in this century.
I currently live in the state of Maryland(USA). I'm 46 years old, have never had a passport, and would only ever need one if I decided I wanted to see the world. Our states are the size of European countries and we can freely travel to all of them without any checkpoints. We've got beaches, tropical areas, mountains and valleys, swamps, plains, deserts, hills, canyons, huge lakes, giant rivers, pine forests, hardwood forests, and have the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Atlantic to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. There is not a "NEED" for a passport.
Hi Adam. I’m a native Houston, Texas woman. My ancestry is Scots-Irish (92 % European). I do not have a passport now, or ever. We’ve been meaning to get ours, we just ‘haven’t changed our socks yet.’😁 I’ve vacationed in Mexico (2004), but we didn’t need a passport then. No, we travel freely through the entire country, and our territories, with just our driver’s licenses. There is so much to see in the U.S., that we haven’t yet seen, so that’s our future! Love your videos dude. I’ve been subscribed for a good while now, so I can’t give you one more.🫤
Hey there Adam! I am from Michigan (the mitten shaped state surrounded by the Great Lakes) ..we are considered a Midwest state on the Northern border. This is fun seeing where everyone is from. 😊
I’m from Mississippi, and no passport here, I can go to sandy beaches, snowy mountains, grassy plains, see geysers, volcanos, explore giant redwood forests, huge rivers, I have access to 2 different oceans, I can go to a desert, I can go see swamps, we have some the most diverse wildlife, ancient ruins, natural wonders of the world like the Grand Canyon. I’ve never thought about leaving because I haven’t even seen everything here yet😅
Seattle Washington. Passports: consider how few vacation days Americans get (unless you're a CEO or high up in some company). Even then, people aren't encouraged to use them. I'm self-employed, so the work's going to still need finishing if I take time off. Also...flying and traveling outside the country with disabilities isn't always easy or feasible, depending on what they are (my husband would have a rough time traveling...). And then...the costs...given the majority of Americans don't earn enough to take trips outside the country...well...getting a passport can be a luxury. And no, you don't need them to visit other states. We have passports but need to renew them b/c they're out of date.
My father side of the family has been in California for over 100 years. I’m currently in Santa Barbara,CA My mother side of the family has been in Louisiana for over 300 years. I got a passport when I was 17 so that I could go to England and play soccer Training at the University of Canterbury for nine hours a day. Then I played in 22 matches in 20 days. Missed the team bus one day, stranded in Piccadilly Circus…., Hungry and I only had 50 pence. Went into a small pub and they treated me to a large plate of shepherds pie and a pint of ale. They were extremely kind. I’ll never forget them.
Hello from Texas Adam! I did not own a passport until i was about 33 years old. That was the first time i was able to afford a trip "out of the country". Even though I went to Vancouver, Canada. I was 46 before travelling to Ireland last year to move my daughter in at uni. I wish I could afford to travel more, there are so many amazing places I'd love to see.
Ok, so our country, just like Lawrence said, is huge. We have quite a few different cultures within the U.S. so there is definitely differentiation and diversity. In addition to that,the cost of an international flight can add up to a rather large expense. As well, since we can drive most places within the U.S. and don't need passports for interstate travel, for many, it makes sense not to have a passport. One additional fun fact - its the same driving distance from Houston, TX to Orlando, FL as it is from Houston, TX to El Paso, TX - 16 hours. For yall to travel anywhere within Europe, you must have a passport because there are so many countries within Europe. Also, regarding favorite sandwich, I'm the most basic - peanut butter. It always does the trick. Love your videos dude. Keep it going!
As an American, I was always/am always curious about the football/futbal thing as well. For the same reasons. Passports, they aren't cheap and are time consuming to get and need a lot of information/documents - which, depending on the document, aren't cheap - or available to you without jumping through hoops to get. It's also expensive to travel, in general, I always try to get my UK friends (some of them anyway) to come here vs going there since a to of the time a plane ticket alone is worth more then a whole trip (plane/hotel/car) trip that y'all may book from there. I got an e-mail the other day about a deal alert to go to London, for $1271. That's just the plane. A friend (from London) shared a link that does holidays to NY (which is much more expensive) that included plane, 4 night 4^ hotel stay and amusement tickets to various things for $2549 - plus we have fees/taxes which would probably add who knows how much.. so the whole trip here would've been only about twice what our plane ticket alone would cost. I know you can get deals, etc but just giving the newest example I saw. To answer the other question, I live in Ohio. When people ask, I generally say Ohio if I know they are from the states, any other time, I say Ohio, United States - since If I just say United States or US they'll ask which state (which makes me laugh since most people I know over there only know of Florida, California, Texas, NY and more recently Chicago (since it's a huge tourist spot for some reason now). Like they assume I live in one of those areas, so it's easier to say the state and expand if needed lol
I got my passport in 1997 when I was 26, in order to relocate to the UK for work for a number of years. When I travel now, I travel mostly overseas as I find it's super expensive to vacation in the US. For example, it is less expensive for me to fly to Costa Rica than it is to fly to either US coast, and Hawaii and Alaska are ridiculously expensive. Last I priced out flights to Heathrow, it was only marginally more expensive than to fly to NY. Might as well go overseas. I've been all around Central and South America, and also most countries in Europe. Almost everyone I know has a passport, and uses it. I currently live in the middle of the county, in Iowa. I have also lived in several states in the US, including California and Texas.
Hello Adam! I'm from just outside St. Louis, Missouri. I didn't get a passport until I was 28, right before I took my first international vacation in Italy. I've also been to the UK three times since then. This actually reminded me I need to get my passport renewed soon!
Fun fact for Adam Couser: The Indianapolis 500 is attended by a crowd of 300,000 fans for The Big Race each year! The race track is so LARGE that it holds these 8 Landmarks: Churchill Downs (Kentucky Derby) Yankee Stadium, The Rose Bowl Vatican City, Taj Mahal, The White House, Liberty Island The Roman Collosseum For real, Dude
I’m from Michigan originally and currently live in Georgia. I also lived briefly in Ohio. I do have a passport (since 1976 when I went to school in Italy )and I mainly use it to travel there. Lawrence is right about the reasons many Americans do not have a passport. Unlike Europe, where you can be in a different country in a few hours by relatively inexpensive trains, I remember traveling to California by train on a family vacation to visit relatives in 1960 when I was 5. The trip from Detroit to San Francisco took 3 or 4 days. In fact, when I was young, air travel was still a luxury that only the wealthy and business travelers could afford with any regularity. For most Americans, a trip to Europe would probably mean travel by ship. Also Lawrence was right that many Americans don’t see the need to travel abroad when you can’t see everything in the U.S. in a lifetime. My father was like that although his view of international travel may have been jaded by the fact that his only experience of it was going to North Africa and Italy during WWII.
Adam, I was born at St Francis hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When I was one, we moved into a house in the South Hills of Pittsburgh an area called Brookline. I was married in 1990 and we bought a home in a place called Bethel Park, PA which is a little further south from my childhood home. I'm back in Pittsburgh, but we are presently planning a move north, to the Pymatuning Lake in Crawford county area of Pennsylvania. How's that? Google map will show you the areas! I've mentioned this before, but we were told our Irish half came from County Down...
@tomgardner2638 I was born at St, Elizabeth;s Hospital in Pittsburgh and moved to Ohio in Middle School. I ended up in Ohio not too far from Pymatuning Lake. We would take rides to Pymatuming to see the carp at the Spillway.
@@momof4grownkids528 "Where the ducks walk on the fishes backs"... They re-did the Spillway several years ago, it is nice, but seagulls make it rather messy. The old building there with the stuffed animals was torn down a while back too, they are supposed to re-build it and open it soon.
Mississippi. I had a passport, traveled the world, and now they've made traveling such a hassle, I don't want to bother anymore, so I let it lapse. We use drivers licenses as our universal IDs between states. Favorite sandwich: ham & cheese poboy (come to New Orleans!) or a Reuben.
I’m from Mississippi my ancestors are Irish German and Danish. And admittedly we Americans can be a bit self important and assume others know more about us than they do but equally we do generally know more about the rest of the world than they think we do. Love your channel keep up the awesome content.
You've got nothing on us, Adam! We were on the same soccer team, and then you guys wandered off the stage and started calling it football. We've no idea what happened to your brains.
Proud Texan here. The reason we refer to our state first is because each and every state has it's own history and Culture. We are a nation, but we are a nation of proud individual states. On the passport subject; up until about 20 odd years ago, an US citizen didn't have to have a passport to travel to Mexico or Canada. You could drive from Belize to Alaska without one. When traveling from state to state the only stoppage is for commercial trucks for inspections. For the rest of us it's like travel from county to county. The only thing to keep in mind is carrying weapons like handguns and pepper spray. One has to be mindful of the different laws for such in each jurisdiction. If I were traveling to New York or California I'd have to leave my handgun at home, where I could legally carry it concealed or in holster, on my hip.
I’m from North Carolina, and I would probably do the same thing and just say that’s where I’m from without mentioning “America”. Also, I just got back from the Caribbean and I didn’t even need a passport to go there, I just needed a birth certificate and an ID. And I would love to go to other countries but I simply can’t afford it. I believe most Americans that don’t travel abroad face the same issue, it’s not out of lack of curiosity or anything related to that. Also also, The last time he says “…..it’s quite laughable because….. SHES DEAD.” Took me out. Bruh…. I love his fkd up humor. And then when you put ur head down and started laughing as well I laughed even harder. Also, like Adam, I’m not laughing at the Queen being dead, I’m laughing at how he said it. 😂 ☠️
Keep in mind that before 9/11 you could actually leave the U.S. without a passport as you used to be able to go to Canada and Mexico with just your ID. Possibly even some of the Caribbean islands not owned or part of the U.S. (Not sure but to attract more tourist maybe)
I live in Arkansas and the pronunciation is because of the French misspelling the name of the Indigenous Quapaw (which is who the state is named for) when hearing other Indigenous groups say it. Apparently it is still technically illegal to not say it as Arkansaw 😂
Howdy Adam. glad you read the comments. Interacting with your subscribers will help your channel grow. West Virginia here. We live in the backwoods of Southern West Virginia. it's called the freedom state. The moonshine flows and big-time gun owners. We own 27 last count and ride our four wheelers into town with our rifles strapped on. Yes, we can to into the stores here without people freaking out because everyone else is packing. You need to come visit.
I only had a passport for about 15 years... it was when I was in the Military and went overseas and then when I got out, I was a military contractor and still needed it as I was still overseas again.... after I came back home and quit doing that, I let my passport expire and haven't gotten one since....
New Mexico. I was lucky to be able to travel. My family is multicultural and have family in several countries. I was blessed that my parents could do that for us. I traveled to most of Europe, 20 of the 50 states. Been all over Mexico and south America. And I read, write, and speak 3 languages.
I was born in New Hampshire, spent my youth in Connecticut then spent my adult years in Massachusetts before retiring to Vermont. I’ve had a passport for many years, in fact am in the process of renewing it, which will cost me $130. You do not need any ID to travel between states and until a few years ago you could travel to Canada or Mexico by showing just a driver’s license. Now a passport is required for that. As always, love your content. Really enjoyed your vlog about your area.
It's called the "World Series" because baseball is played all over North America; The Caribbean [Fidel Castro once wanted to be a Major League pitcher]; Central America, parts of South America, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Here's a roster of Major League Baseball Players for 2022 : US 1,057; Dominican Republic 171; Venezuela 106; Cuba 33; Puerto Rico 28; Mexico 24; Canada 15; Colombia 13; Panama 9; Japan 7; South Korea 6, plus a few others from various countries. As of the 2024 season, EVERY single Major League team had AT LEAST 5 players from Latin America.
I saw you checking out all the things America had your town did not have I been here 60 years and would love a quiet place like yours Especially these days ps Nice car you have in the video
Adam may i say thank you for the content u do because i suffer with anxiety, depression an recently found i have autism and when im having a bad day because any of those i watch you an you always brighten up my day, so thank u
I saw the photo of guns and the comment asking “Is it like that on America?” I live on the Midwest of the U.S. and I got a rifle for my 13th birthday. As kids we would carry our rifles through town to get to a place to shoot. Students with drivers licenses drove pickup trucks and had one or two rifles hanging in the back window of the truck, and drove them to school!!! People back then were raised around guns and had PARENTS who taught them not to shoot people!!! There are also millions of Veterans in the U.S. who are well trained with firearms of all kinds as well as explosive ordnance. Our Constitution gives us the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS as a protection against a tyrannical government and to protect ourselves, families, and others. Unfortunately our Communist Politicians want to disarm us. It makes you wonder why doesn’t it? All dictatorships in the last century have banned guns so they can do evil things to the defenseless masses.
Proud southern belle from South Carolina. As an army brat ( child of a parent who has had a career in the military) I have lived on bases in many American states and in Germany. Having travelled all over Europe it seems the thing Europeans found most interesting was my and my family’s southern accents. We like your different UK accents too. 😂
Native Oregonian here. I've never had a passport even though I've been to Canada several times. Passports have only been required to visit Canada since the 9/11 terrorist attack. Canada is the only foreign country I've been to & it really wasn't much different than the US. I've only been off the North American continent once when I went to Hawaii. Fairly new subscriber to your channel here & I totally love it!
I'm from North Carolina, we Americans say our state first just out of habit but really it makes sense, unless you live in major cities that everyone knows then most people aren't going to know even a large regional city if you're traveling inside America, let alone internationally. For example I grew up an hour west of Charlotte. Many Americans may know or have heard of Charlotte but even those who have likely would struggle placing it on a map or even telling what state it is in unless you're from the region yourself. As a person from another country you may have never even heard of the city despite it being the 15th largest in America and one of the fastest growing. States are easier and you also have to remember the entire continent of Europe is only a hair larger than the entire United States.
Don't let guns scare you during your visit. I'm 52 I've lived in N.y city, Brooklyn N.y, long Island N.y, N. Carolina, fort Lauderdale FL, Miami and Tampa and I have never seen or been in the proximity of a shooting or a mass shooting that I've been aware of
As an American, I think the main reason Americans say their state before their country is because there is SUCH a wide variety of different cultures throughout the USA depending on the region. New York is one thing, California is another thing, the general Midwest is its own thing, the south is its own thing, etc. There will be different accents and different norms and vocabulary and stores from different states and it's just wild. I'm an East Coast gal, but I go to college in the Midwest, and the sheer differences from the two states is insane. 😂
Grew up in Wisconsin, my step dad had chronic pnemonia and was told to get away from the cold, so they moved to Arkansas. I followed them there a year later (1990) and have been living here since.
Adam, Australia, Canada and the Irish Republic also use the term "Soccer" because they have their own national sports called "football" : Australian Rules Football; Canadian Rules Football, and Gaelic Football.
Good review. Interesting topic. My nick tells you where I am. Eastern Pennsylvania. I didn't get my passport until I was 32 when I started getting international assignments at work. But I am also the rare American who has driven coast to coast several times, so I have actually seen many of America's most beautiful places. Others made the great point that you used to be able to visit Canada and Mexico with just a driver's license.
Bottom line is outside of the history of Europe you’ve got every terrain/geography available. Thousands of miles of beaches, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, grasslands, swamps, state and national parks all over the place. Different kind of food all over the place due to the melting pot and its helluva lot cheaper to drive 9 hours to the gulf or 7 hours to the Atlantic for a week than to fly everybody to Europe.
I live in Connecticut, a state in New England. A passport is not needed to cross state lines, the borders are open, and you can travel freely between states. You only need a passport to leave or enter the US. I live on the Connecticut/Rhode Island border, and I travel into Rhode Island daily. There's just a road sign saying, "Welcome to Rhode Island".
I’m from Massachusetts where the gun laws are extremely strict, and now I live in New Hampshire and any resident can walk into a store and purchase a gun. It’s a wild concept to me because I don’t even know how to use one yet I can purchase one legally at a store down the street from me. However I will say, I have never experienced or seen gun violence. There have been shootings in towns I’ve lived in, but mostly gang related isolated incidences so I’ve never been fearful of it.
I'm from New Mexico. Got my passport when I was 17 so me and my friends could take a trip to England for spring break our Senior year of high school (so much fun!). Got plenty more use of it in college by going down to Juarez, Mexico for the "Drink n Drown Bar Crawls" on Thursdays. The passport was good for 10 years but by the time it was up for renewal Juarez had become a much more dangerous place for American's and I had no plans on flying anywhere any time soon. I decided to skip the $50 renewal fee and let it lapse. Edit: Drink n Drown Thursdays was where you could pay $10 to get in to a bar or club on the border strip and get free drinks all night. Or you could buy a $30(sometimes $40) wristband that gave you Drink n Drown access to all 5 bars/clubs on the border strip.
I'm from California. 6:20 Keep in mind that COVID (starting in 2020) created a LOT of lawlessness and violence, as did many "movements" in the US where criminals were out being violent in the streets and wreaking havoc (and ruining what could have been peaceful protests). But notice that suicides have a steady rise whereas homicides have an ebb and flow--this is why you hear many gun advocates, myself included, show much more concern for the mental-health aspect of gun violence than the scary weapon that they choose to use. The mental health part of suicide is obvious, but there is a very high number of non-suicide gun crime that also involves very mentally unstable people. Plus, there is a very concerning correlation between the rise of social media (around 2005) and the steady increase in suicide. Sorry for the somber rant, but this is an issue that concerns me greatly.
When he says “stay out of bad neighborhoods” he’s basically saying that 99.9% of that type of violence happens in the same areas…and it’s not rocket surgery to know whether you’re in one or not.
Saying the state first has a super simple reason: When we get the question, "Where are you from?" in everyday life in the US, we're asking each other for the state or city. If we're assuming you don't know the city, that's the information we're most used to giving.
Another thing to keep in mind is that until 9/11, you didn’t even need a passport to go between Canada and the U.S. In the same graph Laurence just showed, you can see American passport ownership spiked somewhat after 9/11, and that is a big reason why.
Texan here. Been to Canada three times. Mexico at least five times, and various counties in Europe on my three visits there. Lots of trips within the states. Yes, I keep the passport up to date, even though I don't want to be in a plane that long again.
Hello 👋Colorado here! I've actually travelled pretty extensively. (Brazil multiple times, a summer in Rome, a summer in India, a trip backpacking across 13 European countries) but that's more the exception than the rule 😁 It sounds unbelievably pretentious saying that, but trust me they were NOT glamorous trips. I ate almost nothing but oatmeal and slept in a tent for weeks and weeks 😂
Football is called football because the length of the ball is a foot = 12 inches. A foot length ball is therefore a football. And the game of football is obviously played with a football.
Hello, Adam. I've lived most of my life in Georgia, but my early childhood was spent in Tennessee, and I was born in Michigan. Americans do tend to live their entire lives close to where they were born, but some also tend to move around a lot. I got my first passport in 2010 so that I could accompany my British wife back home to attend her father's funeral. In 2011, we went back, just for fun this time. After that, my passport has been stored in a lockbox/safe, unused. Those trips to England and back cost me $2000 for round-trip tickets each trip, plus another $3000 in spending money, again, each time. So, $5000 per trip isn't exactly small change, even for the 2010s. My wife however, has three passports: 1 because she was born while her parents were living in Venezuela, South America, 1 because her family were born in England and they moved back there around the time she was 5 years old, and 1 because she moved to the US and applied for citizenship here. I once had to fly out to New Mexico--just Northeast of Texas, and drive a small moving van/rental truck back here to Georgia. I crossed 6 states, and never needed a passport. That trip took 4 days, although the actual driving time was about 28 hours. Imagine you had a way to drive Eastward for 28 hours on a perfectly flat, straight motorway at 60-70 miles per hour without needing to stop for food, fuel, or loo breaks. What European country would you wind up in after that time? How many times would you have needed to show your passport at a checkpoint? It's sometimes easiest to think of US states as different countries--even though they aren't--just to visualize the sheer size of the country. --Dan
4:16 I have a question, but let me preface: I know buying store bought bread in the UK is common. How common is homemade bread? The reason I ask, is because its fairly common in certain regions of the U.S., for people to bake their own bread. I'm from Iowa, so eating both store bought and home made is normal. With that said, I'm curious if UK's store bought bread is more akin to our version of homemade bread, with way less sugar or no sugar at all.
I'm from Michigan, left at 23 years old and have been in Florida since....so since 2006. We say the state because America is big and your state and even city can say a lot about who you are. I still do not have a passport because when I was younger I traveled around the US and we didn't need a passport to go into Canada, Mexico, and many other territories. Now you do. With 4 boys and a busy life...along with the expense that comes with, we have to take affordable trips for 6 people and international travel just isn't in the cards. We actually plan on getting passports in 2025 since we will be in a much better financial position by the end of this year with all debt paid off 100%. So excited for this!!
I had a passport years ago because I planned a trip that ended up getting canceled. Passports in America (at least when I got mine) aren't cheap. When you add in the cost of the trip on top of that it gets expensive fast, especially if you have a family traveling together. As opposed to that you can drive a few states over and it will be completely different than the state you live in with the added bonus of people speaking the same language as you (though some accents will make you question that).
Minnesota, here! I used to have a passport--went to France (with a lengthy layover in Amsterdam) with my secondary school French class, and spent a semester abroad in Japan while I was in college, but never renewed it once it expired, since I can't afford to travel abroad right now anyway. Might get another one, though, given the 'real ID' thing that's going on. Pretty sure the passport requires less paperwork. These days, when I go on vacation, I'm normally traveling for a convention in another state--and driving, since the normal methods of un-popping your ears during a quick takeoff/landing don't work for me, so I wind up in pain for 2-3 days after flying anywhere.
I'm originally from the central valley in California. It's 2 hours from the beach, 2 hours from the mountains, and 2 hours from the desert. You could ski, dune buggy, and surf all in the same weekend. Lol. Now I live in Iowa.
Michigan here. The only other country I’ve been to is Canada (although it probably helps that it’s borders my state, lol). For a long time we didn’t need passports to go into Canada. You could just use a copy of your birth certificate to get in. I believe now you can get a special driver’s license that acts as a passport for Canada and Mexico. Having said all that though, I’ve driven to Florida, the West Coast and lived in Texas a while. One trip to the West Coast (Washington State), I put over 6,000 miles on the rental car (I definitely made sure to get it with unlimited mileage, lol). Every time I’ve ever driven from my hometown (near the Indiana border) to Houston, Tx. it always took me 23 hours of driving non-stop (one way). I’ve made that trip a few times and it was always 23 hours of driving straight through just to get there (not 22, not 24, always 23 hours non-stop).
Hi Adam! I was born & raised in the mountains of Montana, but now I call Minnesota home. I have a passport, but unfortunately it expired a few years ago. I first got it in 2004 when I came to Britain on holiday. My favorite sandwich has to be a Reuben with double meat.
In the early 50s a cousin of my mother married a girl from New York. He brought her to live in south Texas with his family. The poor woman would not go outside between the hours of noon and one. She was convinced gun fights always broke out at high noon. Thanks hollyweird.
37, also named Adam, have my passport for a few years now because a group of friends got together to stay at an all inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic. We have since gone to Puerto Rico (no Passport Required). Flights to the DR were expensive then you have to pay another couple thousand (or much more) for the resort. We just get in our car and drive to the beach, mountains, lake houses, etc. For the weekend or week(s). Flying out of the country is a lot of ocean so we can't break up flights as easily. Idk what they even cost I think most people assume it's going to be expensive and how worth it will it be. I'd love to go to Asia and the south Pacific like New Zealand and Australia. Or discover where the first of my American family came from in England. 😅
It’s called the World Series because you have many nationalities play for US Baseball teams. Theres a bunch of not just US but, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Koreans, Japanese players etc etc that play for teams. So the best players from all over the world eventually find their way into the Show. This is one of the reasons most often cited for dubbing the championship game the “World Series”: it contains the best players in the world. Also, I have a passport. Yet why own one when you’re never gonna leave the country? Doesn’t seem crazy to me.
Hello from hot and humid South Carolina! I’ve had a passport twice. One trip abroad per passport. Each expired and I’ve never renewed after the second one expired. Our driver’s license/state ID is the primary form of needed identification. I was raised in a military family, so I’ve lived all over the country, but still haven’t seen every state. I’d rather focus on that goal moving forward-it’s more cost effective and there is so much to see and experience without having to deal with the expenses and stresses of traveling abroad. Just my opinion. Love your enthusiasm and your channel!
Just found this video but I am from Washington state! The evergreen state as we are known for our lush evergreen trees all year round, our rainy and quite grey weather, coffee, Sasquatch, and every tech company. We are much different from Washington D.C. (which is not an official state, but a federal district as the capitol of the U.S.) and also on opposite coasts. We tend to differentiate for the mix up we get while traveling in the states and getting asked where we were from while just a few states over. This is primarily because of region differences. The PNW (Pacific Northwest) and Midwest are very different regions and the people in said regions are proud of where we're from. The food, language, and culture are so different that we wouldn't want people to assume we're from a region or state that we're not familiar with. I've lived in Washington my whole life and I want people to know that I think of my region and community before they think of the federal government. IDK thats just my reasoning 🤷🏻♀️
Texas native. Have traveled to some European countries and Mexico. Have a passport. Majority of travel has been to other parts of Texas and other states. Enjoyed meeting people from other countries. Since husband did some hunting, we had firearms in our home. Due to the sudden increase of crime in the 1980's, I purchased a handgun and took a gun safety course to be able to protect my family if husband wasn't home. Thankfully, I never had to use it.
I've had a passport for as long as I can remember and I'm 66 years old. I was born in Germany but have lived in Chicago since I was a baby. My family would travel back to Germany quite often. My husband is from Michigan and never had a passport and he never wanted to travel :( I took the kids to Germany when they were 6 and 8 years old and they loved it. My daughter has the travel bug now. I can't wait to see how you and your family like it here in the states when you come to visit in Oct. Love your channel and you also deserve a million subs and more!
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The united states is larger than most of Europe combined why would we want to leave here
Kansas, most of the states' names are words from Native American, Spanish, laugne other the first thirteen colonies were colonized by English but most Americans claim German heritage. Our closest neighbor is a mile and a half away, I love my privacy have large yards around my house and free-range chickens, ducks, geese, and genies and I raise cattle and crops also.
im 35 have No passport from TuLare California close to Fresno
I am from Northern Wisconsin and yes I have a passport. It was going to be used for my career. Charity my wife to be was from Kenya. We were working to work 6 months in the States and 6 months overseas. Medical field. We make most of our money in home health Wisconsin Michigan Ohio. Among others, then provide medical services to the poor in Kenya at whatever they could afford as well as medical services in United Arab Emirates Then branch out from there. However Charity received her BSN in nursing I almost had my MSN in nursing NP in May 2017 June she went to her sisters in Ohio. By mid June came down ill. Admitted in a hospital in Columbus. ICU Cancer with Met. Died July 1st 2017. She was a strong woman and is to this day missed.
Smelly feet?!! Nasty; my condolences to the lady of the house.
Grew up in Georgia near the Florida line. Ancestors were from Northern Ireland.
And no, we do not need ID to cross state lines. There’s no border check or anything. It’s just the road with a sign that says “Welcome to” whatever state you’re entering.
You grew up in God's country!
some states do have agricultural check point though here in california we do
@@iwillruletheworldyaywhat the heck is that?
There is a border crossing entering California. They just ask if you have anything to declare.
@@wheredidthetimego8087 Arizona here. On trips to California there are Agriculture checks to make sure you are not bringing in anything that might damage or infest citrus, fruit and vegetables in California. Arizona does this also sometimes to protect our agriculture if there is a pest (fruit flies and the like) in California
I also wanted to address the gun topic. I grew up around guns as I come from a hunting family. Rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Single shot, bolt action, pump, and semi automatic. I have never experienced nor have anyone I know experienced gun violence in the United States. I know one kid who was shot accidentally, and two others who had gun violence incidents in foreign countries, but not the US. Most gun violence happens in cities due to drug or gang related issues. That is my personal experience. Thanks for taking an interest!
I’m 44 years old, if that matters😜
Agree and most guns used in gun violence are not used by the registered owner. what dumb criminal would use his/her own gun in a crime when it can be immediately traced back to them!
Way back in our History, guns were necessary to shoot game in the wilderness and when the Revolution came along, the colonists had guns to fight. Because it’s a huge country guns were needed for food and protection as the country grew. During the Great Depression before WWII, my Dad kept his family and neighbors fed by shooting game, as did many Americans. It’s a part of our long History, am 76 years old and never been threatened by a gun! You must register and have a background check to buy a gun. Sadly gangs and criminals don’t get them legally. Think of immigrants coming legally and illegally into a country. Hunting and shooting at gun ranges are a sport here plus game is sold at restaurants. We have a huge wilderness here.
There’s no such thing as a violent gun………
America is really closer to how Europeans think of a continent than we think of the US as a country. States have their own laws and cultures. A Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island “Clam Chowder” are all different soups. I live in Florida and where I’m at is heavily Greek and British so we get a lot of that influence but drive 2 hours and you will hit places with stronger Cuban or German or Puerto Rican or Jamaican populations and it changes the culture and especially the food. I mean you go up towards Louisiana and they have a culture all their own.
Actually the there are FOUR clam chowders : New England; Manhattan; Rhode Island and ROCKY POINT. If you're not from Southeastern New England, you won't understand.
You're very right. We even have multiple states that are bigger than some European countries. And another example is in Michigan. There area around Dearborn has the largest Middle Eastern population in the country and it heavily influences the food there but drive thirty minutes north and there's a historically large Geman population and you see it everywhere, especially the food. Same thing in Texas. ~A!`f`ter `Katrina a huge amount of people moved to Texas and you can find tons of Creole food and culture right along with Mexican and what we'd consider 'cowboy' culture of BBQ and soul food. Not to mention a huge Asian population and extire sections of the DFW area that are akin to Chinatown in San Fransisco.
And go back the other way too Georgia, hit Kentucky, west Virginia, then Ohio. All different people all different cultures all different food
America is a *HUGE* continent.
Plus, an American is from the Continent of America.
ALSO, you didn't need a passport to go to Mexico or Canada until recently. So, you could do everything in North America without a passport. Unless you were a businessman who needed to go to Europe/Japan, you didn't need a passport for the most part.
My favorite thing about these videos as an American is you don’t know something that is a part of your life is interesting until someone else looks at it and goes “what the fuck is that?”
I’ve had my U.S. Passport since I was 22 years old. I’m much older now! Prior to 9/11 we didn’t need a passport to travel to Canada, Mexico and most of the Caribbean. Now we do. But we don’t need a passport to travel to U.S. territories such as the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam.
I just got back from the Caribbean 4 weeks ago, and all I needed was my birth certificate and ID.
@@kellygriffin8232 What island/islands did you go to? That’s good to know. I have my passport but it’s still good to know.
To goto Canada, Mexico and a few other places you can get an enhanced real ID drivers license which acts like a passport.
@@ik7578 I don’t believe a “Real ID” drivers license will get you into Canada or Mexico. I think a passport is still needed for international travel to Canada and Mexico. I believe the Real ID is for domestic travel if you don’t have a passport. I’ll have to check it out.
@@ik7578 So apparently the Enhanced Real ID WILL allow entry to Canada but only by vehicle or boat at border crossings. You can’t fly in. And the Enhanced Real IDs are only available in a limited number of states.
One of my 2 half brother's is a UK cop. He had told me that the UK firearm homicide rate is fixed. As in, if you get shot in the UK but die in the hospital due to that gunshot wound, then it is counted as a death in the hospital and not death by a firearm.
Thats so scummy
I really appreciate you sharing this and it's so obvious that they're trying to shame us when our gun rights save lives!! They're all in denial and they have horrible knife violence also so, what's the actual difference?
It's a fact
That's not true. The cause of death is on the death certificate.
I live in South Carolina, USA and I am 68 years old. I have a passport only because we took a cruise in 2014 but have no desire to leave the US on any more trips. We have beaches and mountains within a 3 to 4 hour trip and they are in South Carolina and they are beautiful. I feel very blessed to live in the United States.
West Virginia mountain girl here! I do have a passport, but it’s long since expired. As much as I would love to visit certain countries overseas, it’s just too expensive for me; I travel and sightsee vicariously through UA-cam videos. Meanwhile, crossing state lines is as easy as driving across or even walking from one to the other. Every state is so different from each other, you can get a whole different experience just by visiting a few. To a degree, each one can be thought of as a mini-country that just happens to be part of a bigger one. Every state has its own unique culture and identity, and most of us are proud of our home states. We’re willing to rattle on about how cool or different that state is for ages, if someone’s interested enough to ask. Our states are as much a part of our identity as America itself is.
Ohio here. It's true most Americans don't have a passport and never leave the country. We have a vast and diverse area to explore domestically. We have two huge mountain ranges, Florida beaches, lakeside holidays in Michigan; you really have everything you'll ever need here. Besides, many of us can't afford international travel. I went to Canada once in 1997; that's it.
Also, I own 11 guns. It's a mixture of handguns, shotguns and rifles and I can attest that these guns don't float around at night and commit crimes. That's entirely on the operator. Ngl, if I could afford more of them, I'd buy more of them. I'm an enthusiast of sorts
Ohio as well
And y’all are the reason my family is actively seeking asylum overseas. What the fuck is wrong with you? No one is threatening you. This isn’t Russia (yet). Is it just because you have a small one? Get a therapist, not a fucking AK47.
Arizona previously from Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Florida 😅 moved around a bit
I've had a passport since i was 5, but military brats may be in a different category
New Hampshir “ Live Free or Die” here, but split my year over in Maine. I used to have a passport but not going to all my previous destinations were too much money. If I shop around and am flexible on dates I can generally get $200-300 round trip from Boston or Manchester to LA and back. The last flight to Seattle was under $200. I herd they’ve been over booking the flights and if you’ve got a tight connection flight you’re screwed. Most people don’t have the $$$ to do a trip out of the country
FYI Soccer is a term that was created in England! It was short for "Association" of football. The term stuck here while in England you changed to using just football.
Soccer is still used as a term in Australia, Canada, parts of Ireland, and South Africa, IIRC!
Georgia here. I had a passport a few years back when I went to Italy and France. I went to Canada when I was young and didn't need a passport to cross the boarder. You can travel from state to state without a passport or any types of papers. The USA is so large that there is always something new to see and experience.
You should acknowledge that while you don’t need travel documents to go state to state, all adults are required to carry id. Drivers license, state id, service id, I don’t know if school ids count. You have to be able to identify yourself (or be able to be identified if there is an accident or you become one of those fatalities). Why make it hard? Lying in a hospital, unconscious and alone, no way to notify your next of kin. Or in a lonely morgue, also with no way of notifying your next of kin.
North Carolina here. No, we don't need passports to cross state borders. Going from one state to another is free access, no check points. Basically, you'll only know which state you're entering by road signs saying "Welcome to North Carolina: or "Welcome to Florida" etc. I do have a passport and use it mostly for ID when more than one ID is asked for, I have used it to go to Mexico.
The word soccer comes from Oxford students in the 1880's as a way to differentiate the two sports. They called Rugby football "rugger" and association football "assoccer" which was eventually shortened to "soccer".
when the schools played each other they would play rugby the first half and soccer the next half
Heya! Some missing information from the football segment:
Before industrialization, sports were played primarily on horseback. Once people who weren't wealthy enough to have horses had more time to actually organize and develop formal sports, these sports were collectively referred to as football, since it was a game of ball played on foot rather than horseback. As these games solidified into the big 3 football games of football we know today (soccer, football, rugby), they developed official leagues and standardized rules. The British specifically took a liking to the Association of football, which they referred to as simply asSOCiation football and later even more simply as soccer. American football was a newer sport at that time, and the two sports made it to America as football and soccer. Soccer never really caught on in north America, while football never caught on in Europe. Following our split from Britain, the British did as they often do and changed their mind, collectively stopping referring to soccer by its association roots and instead referring to it as football once more. Meanwhile, rugby traveled to Britain's other colonies, Australia. Thus, you have the division of the three main footballs
"The thought of the queen paying rent is quite laughable, because she's dead." That came out of left field 😂
Gotta love Laurence's humor!
Like kicking a dead horse... Sorry woman... Sorry cadaver.
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Great video Adam nice
5:35 These numbers actually represent firearms deaths for which only 1/3 are homicides. The vast majority are suicides and the others are accidents or justified shootings.
I live in Indiana.
Before Sept. 11th 2001, you didn't need a passport to visit Canada or Mexico. You can drive to those.
These were required as of 2009
You could still technically cross into the US from Canada with a drivers license at certain border crossings up till 2019 if you had a then enhanced drivers license. But it was discontinued
@@tjlarson6519 And you can see a bit of a bump in the graph at that time. The trend was upwards anyway, but that change definitely had an impact.
@@Vanquish79I still use my enhanced ID in Niagara Falls to get over the border. Maybe they stopped it in some other states!
I would just use my Military ID to get into Canada. Never an issue, but always thought it was strange.
Your videos have cheered me up while I’ve been sick in the ICU for a little over a week now. It’s been a great distraction after feeling terrified after I turned blue and nearly died from the blood clots that are in my lungs and heart. Thanks, having videos to watch has helped keep me sane😂 (somewhat lol)
There's no reason to leave America. Your roads aren't big enough for our big ass trucks😂
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True 🤣
@@MoreAdamCouserit’s okay to not like Americans. I myself am American and I can’t stand most of them. Unless you agree with them?
Or Jamaica
It's a shame that small usable trucks have been outlawed. If you want a usable bed, giant sizes are literally the only option if you want a vehicle made in this century.
I currently live in the state of Maryland(USA). I'm 46 years old, have never had a passport, and would only ever need one if I decided I wanted to see the world. Our states are the size of European countries and we can freely travel to all of them without any checkpoints. We've got beaches, tropical areas, mountains and valleys, swamps, plains, deserts, hills, canyons, huge lakes, giant rivers, pine forests, hardwood forests, and have the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Atlantic to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. There is not a "NEED" for a passport.
I really enjoyed that vlog you did the other day showing the pub and grocery store! Really nice town!
Thanks!
Hi Adam. I’m a native Houston, Texas woman. My ancestry is Scots-Irish (92 % European). I do not have a passport now, or ever. We’ve been meaning to get ours, we just ‘haven’t changed our socks yet.’😁 I’ve vacationed in Mexico (2004), but we didn’t need a passport then. No, we travel freely through the entire country, and our territories, with just our driver’s licenses. There is so much to see in the U.S., that we haven’t yet seen, so that’s our future! Love your videos dude. I’ve been subscribed for a good while now, so I can’t give you one more.🫤
Hey there Adam! I am from Michigan (the mitten shaped state surrounded by the Great Lakes) ..we are considered a Midwest state on the Northern border. This is fun seeing where everyone is from. 😊
When deciding between American or Canadian, you have am 85% chance that the person is American.
I don't have a passport. I agree with the point of theres enough diversity of things to see in America that i have no reason to go any where else.
I agree. Wisconsin girl here
I’m from Mississippi, and no passport here, I can go to sandy beaches, snowy mountains, grassy plains, see geysers, volcanos, explore giant redwood forests, huge rivers, I have access to 2 different oceans, I can go to a desert, I can go see swamps, we have some the most diverse wildlife, ancient ruins, natural wonders of the world like the Grand Canyon. I’ve never thought about leaving because I haven’t even seen everything here yet😅
Seattle Washington. Passports: consider how few vacation days Americans get (unless you're a CEO or high up in some company). Even then, people aren't encouraged to use them. I'm self-employed, so the work's going to still need finishing if I take time off. Also...flying and traveling outside the country with disabilities isn't always easy or feasible, depending on what they are (my husband would have a rough time traveling...). And then...the costs...given the majority of Americans don't earn enough to take trips outside the country...well...getting a passport can be a luxury. And no, you don't need them to visit other states. We have passports but need to renew them b/c they're out of date.
My father side of the family has been in California for over 100 years.
I’m currently in Santa Barbara,CA
My mother side of the family has been in Louisiana for over 300 years.
I got a passport when I was 17 so that I could go to England and play soccer
Training at the University of Canterbury for nine hours a day.
Then I played in 22 matches in 20 days.
Missed the team bus one day, stranded in Piccadilly Circus….,
Hungry and I only had 50 pence.
Went into a small pub and they treated me to a large plate of shepherds pie and a pint of ale.
They were extremely kind.
I’ll never forget them.
Hello from Texas Adam! I did not own a passport until i was about 33 years old. That was the first time i was able to afford a trip "out of the country". Even though I went to Vancouver, Canada. I was 46 before travelling to Ireland last year to move my daughter in at uni. I wish I could afford to travel more, there are so many amazing places I'd love to see.
Ok, so our country, just like Lawrence said, is huge. We have quite a few different cultures within the U.S. so there is definitely differentiation and diversity. In addition to that,the cost of an international flight can add up to a rather large expense. As well, since we can drive most places within the U.S. and don't need passports for interstate travel, for many, it makes sense not to have a passport. One additional fun fact - its the same driving distance from Houston, TX to Orlando, FL as it is from Houston, TX to El Paso, TX - 16 hours. For yall to travel anywhere within Europe, you must have a passport because there are so many countries within Europe.
Also, regarding favorite sandwich, I'm the most basic - peanut butter. It always does the trick.
Love your videos dude. Keep it going!
Arkansas. The name comes from a Native American pronunciation. No, we can freely travel within the United States, including their territories.
Americans also don't get much time off from work to be able to travel abroad
As an American, I was always/am always curious about the football/futbal thing as well. For the same reasons. Passports, they aren't cheap and are time consuming to get and need a lot of information/documents - which, depending on the document, aren't cheap - or available to you without jumping through hoops to get. It's also expensive to travel, in general, I always try to get my UK friends (some of them anyway) to come here vs going there since a to of the time a plane ticket alone is worth more then a whole trip (plane/hotel/car) trip that y'all may book from there. I got an e-mail the other day about a deal alert to go to London, for $1271. That's just the plane. A friend (from London) shared a link that does holidays to NY (which is much more expensive) that included plane, 4 night 4^ hotel stay and amusement tickets to various things for $2549 - plus we have fees/taxes which would probably add who knows how much.. so the whole trip here would've been only about twice what our plane ticket alone would cost. I know you can get deals, etc but just giving the newest example I saw. To answer the other question, I live in Ohio. When people ask, I generally say Ohio if I know they are from the states, any other time, I say Ohio, United States - since If I just say United States or US they'll ask which state (which makes me laugh since most people I know over there only know of Florida, California, Texas, NY and more recently Chicago (since it's a huge tourist spot for some reason now). Like they assume I live in one of those areas, so it's easier to say the state and expand if needed lol
I got my passport in 1997 when I was 26, in order to relocate to the UK for work for a number of years. When I travel now, I travel mostly overseas as I find it's super expensive to vacation in the US. For example, it is less expensive for me to fly to Costa Rica than it is to fly to either US coast, and Hawaii and Alaska are ridiculously expensive. Last I priced out flights to Heathrow, it was only marginally more expensive than to fly to NY. Might as well go overseas. I've been all around Central and South America, and also most countries in Europe. Almost everyone I know has a passport, and uses it. I currently live in the middle of the county, in Iowa. I have also lived in several states in the US, including California and Texas.
Hello Adam! I'm from just outside St. Louis, Missouri. I didn't get a passport until I was 28, right before I took my first international vacation in Italy. I've also been to the UK three times since then. This actually reminded me I need to get my passport renewed soon!
Fun fact for Adam Couser: The Indianapolis 500 is attended by a crowd of 300,000 fans for The Big Race each year! The race track is so LARGE that it holds these 8 Landmarks: Churchill Downs (Kentucky Derby) Yankee Stadium, The Rose Bowl Vatican City, Taj Mahal, The White House, Liberty Island The Roman Collosseum For real, Dude
I’m from Michigan originally and currently live in Georgia. I also lived briefly in Ohio. I do have a passport (since 1976 when I went to school in Italy )and I mainly use it to travel there. Lawrence is right about the reasons many Americans do not have a passport. Unlike Europe, where you can be in a different country in a few hours by relatively inexpensive trains, I remember traveling to California by train on a family vacation to visit relatives in 1960 when I was 5. The trip from Detroit to San Francisco took 3 or 4 days. In fact, when I was young, air travel was still a luxury that only the wealthy and business travelers could afford with any regularity. For most Americans, a trip to Europe would probably mean travel by ship. Also Lawrence was right that many Americans don’t see the need to travel abroad when you can’t see everything in the U.S. in a lifetime. My father was like that although his view of international travel may have been jaded by the fact that his only experience of it was going to North Africa and Italy during WWII.
Adam, I was born at St Francis hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When I was one, we moved into a house in the South Hills of Pittsburgh an area called Brookline. I was married in 1990 and we bought a home in a place called Bethel Park, PA which is a little further south from my childhood home. I'm back in Pittsburgh, but we are presently planning a move north, to the Pymatuning Lake in Crawford county area of Pennsylvania. How's that? Google map will show you the areas! I've mentioned this before, but we were told our Irish half came from County Down...
@tomgardner2638 I was born at St, Elizabeth;s Hospital in Pittsburgh and moved to Ohio in Middle School. I ended up in Ohio not too far from Pymatuning Lake. We would take rides to Pymatuming to see the carp at the Spillway.
@@momof4grownkids528 "Where the ducks walk on the fishes backs"... They re-did the Spillway several years ago, it is nice, but seagulls make it rather messy. The old building there with the stuffed animals was torn down a while back too, they are supposed to re-build it and open it soon.
Johnstown PA here...just an hour over the mountains :)
Central Pennsylvania here! Wow you live like 3 or 4 hours from me lol!
I currently live in Girard, Pa but spent 5 years in Crawford County in Centerville Pa area. I was born in bristol, pa
Discovered you a few weeks ago. Love your channel. Shoutout from metro Detroit Michigan.
Mississippi. I had a passport, traveled the world, and now they've made traveling such a hassle, I don't want to bother anymore, so I let it lapse. We use drivers licenses as our universal IDs between states. Favorite sandwich: ham & cheese poboy (come to New Orleans!) or a Reuben.
I’m from Mississippi my ancestors are Irish German and Danish. And admittedly we Americans can be a bit self important and assume others know more about us than they do but equally we do generally know more about the rest of the world than they think we do. Love your channel keep up the awesome content.
It's called Soccer in Australia, (the Socceroos), New Zealand, Canada, the U.S., and probably millions of other people around the world.
It was originally called Soccer in the UK too. They came up with the name. They changed it while we kept it.
You've got nothing on us, Adam! We were on the same soccer team, and then you guys wandered off the stage and started calling it football. We've no idea what happened to your brains.
Proud Texan here. The reason we refer to our state first is because each and every state has it's own history and Culture. We are a nation, but we are a nation of proud individual states. On the passport subject; up until about 20 odd years ago, an US citizen didn't have to have a passport to travel to Mexico or Canada. You could drive from Belize to Alaska without one. When traveling from state to state the only stoppage is for commercial trucks for inspections. For the rest of us it's like travel from county to county. The only thing to keep in mind is carrying weapons like handguns and pepper spray. One has to be mindful of the different laws for such in each jurisdiction. If I were traveling to New York or California I'd have to leave my handgun at home, where I could legally carry it concealed or in holster, on my hip.
I’m from North Carolina, and I would probably do the same thing and just say that’s where I’m from without mentioning “America”.
Also, I just got back from the Caribbean and I didn’t even need a passport to go there, I just needed a birth certificate and an ID. And I would love to go to other countries but I simply can’t afford it. I believe most Americans that don’t travel abroad face the same issue, it’s not out of lack of curiosity or anything related to that.
Also also, The last time he says “…..it’s quite laughable because….. SHES DEAD.” Took me out. Bruh…. I love his fkd up humor. And then when you put ur head down and started laughing as well I laughed even harder.
Also, like Adam, I’m not laughing at the Queen being dead, I’m laughing at how he said it. 😂 ☠️
Keep in mind that before 9/11 you could actually leave the U.S. without a passport as you used to be able to go to Canada and Mexico with just your ID. Possibly even some of the Caribbean islands not owned or part of the U.S. (Not sure but to attract more tourist maybe)
I live in Arkansas and the pronunciation is because of the French misspelling the name of the Indigenous Quapaw (which is who the state is named for) when hearing other Indigenous groups say it. Apparently it is still technically illegal to not say it as Arkansaw 😂
Which means that Kansas is wrong!
But we Arkansans already knew that. 😘
@@chelleyroberts yup and we were here first 😂
FYI: Missouri here. Love your reactions to US videos. Thanks for sharing. I love these videos. Keep up the awesome reactions.
Howdy Adam. glad you read the comments. Interacting with your subscribers will help your channel grow. West Virginia here. We live in the backwoods of Southern West Virginia. it's called the freedom state. The moonshine flows and big-time gun owners. We own 27 last count and ride our four wheelers into town with our rifles strapped on. Yes, we can to into the stores here without people freaking out because everyone else is packing. You need to come visit.
Born and raised in Greenbrier county. WV will always be home to me.
Love this & id love to!
I only had a passport for about 15 years... it was when I was in the Military and went overseas and then when I got out, I was a military contractor and still needed it as I was still overseas again.... after I came back home and quit doing that, I let my passport expire and haven't gotten one since....
New Mexico. I was lucky to be able to travel. My family is multicultural and have family in several countries. I was blessed that my parents could do that for us. I traveled to most of Europe, 20 of the 50 states. Been all over Mexico and south America. And I read, write, and speak 3 languages.
2:27 if I’m not mistaken soccer is short for association football while football is short for gridiron football.
I'm originally from the Great Lakes state Michigan.
That's where I'm from also, but I currently reside in New Hampshire.
The place so awesome, God had to give the planet a high-five.
Mitten LIFE!
SHHHHH. We gotta gatekeep the glory that’s is MICHIGAN
Anyone from the u.p. Or am I the only one?
I was born in New Hampshire, spent my youth in Connecticut then spent my adult years in Massachusetts before retiring to Vermont. I’ve had a passport for many years, in fact am in the process of renewing it, which will cost me $130. You do not need any ID to travel between states and until a few years ago you could travel to Canada or Mexico by showing just a driver’s license. Now a passport is required for that.
As always, love your content. Really enjoyed your vlog about your area.
From good ol' Michigan, where we get to enjoy both -17c and 35c with 80 percent humidity fairly often. Wheeeee.... 😅
Me too.
It's called the "World Series" because baseball is played all over North America; The Caribbean [Fidel Castro once wanted to be a Major League pitcher]; Central America, parts of South America, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Here's a roster of Major League Baseball Players for 2022 : US 1,057; Dominican Republic 171; Venezuela 106; Cuba 33; Puerto Rico 28; Mexico 24; Canada 15; Colombia 13; Panama 9; Japan 7; South Korea 6, plus a few others from various countries. As of the 2024 season, EVERY single Major League team had AT LEAST 5 players from Latin America.
I saw you checking out all the things America had your town did not have I been here 60 years and would love a quiet place like yours Especially these days ps Nice car you have in the video
Adam may i say thank you for the content u do because i suffer with anxiety, depression an recently found i have autism and when im having a bad day because any of those i watch you an you always brighten up my day, so thank u
Thank you for watching!!
@@MoreAdamCouser no adam thanks for what u do. An yes I'm subscribe an notify on
I saw the photo of guns and the comment asking “Is it like that on America?”
I live on the Midwest of the U.S. and I got a rifle for my 13th birthday. As kids we would carry our rifles through town to get to a place to shoot.
Students with drivers licenses drove pickup trucks and had one or two rifles hanging in the back window of the truck, and drove them to school!!!
People back then were raised around guns and had PARENTS who taught them not to shoot people!!!
There are also millions of Veterans in the U.S. who are well trained with firearms of all kinds as well as explosive ordnance. Our Constitution gives us the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS as a protection against a tyrannical government and to protect ourselves, families, and others.
Unfortunately our Communist Politicians want to disarm us. It makes you wonder why doesn’t it? All dictatorships in the last century have banned guns so they can do evil things to the defenseless masses.
You might want to brush up on what communism means because you are spewing Kremlin talking points.
Proud southern belle from South Carolina. As an army brat ( child of a parent who has had a career in the military) I have lived on bases in many American states and in Germany. Having travelled all over Europe it seems the thing Europeans found most interesting was my and my family’s southern accents. We like your different UK accents too. 😂
Native Oregonian here. I've never had a passport even though I've been to Canada several times. Passports have only been required to visit Canada since the 9/11 terrorist attack. Canada is the only foreign country I've been to & it really wasn't much different than the US. I've only been off the North American continent once when I went to Hawaii. Fairly new subscriber to your channel here & I totally love it!
I'm from North Carolina, we Americans say our state first just out of habit but really it makes sense, unless you live in major cities that everyone knows then most people aren't going to know even a large regional city if you're traveling inside America, let alone internationally.
For example I grew up an hour west of Charlotte. Many Americans may know or have heard of Charlotte but even those who have likely would struggle placing it on a map or even telling what state it is in unless you're from the region yourself. As a person from another country you may have never even heard of the city despite it being the 15th largest in America and one of the fastest growing. States are easier and you also have to remember the entire continent of Europe is only a hair larger than the entire United States.
Don't let guns scare you during your visit. I'm 52 I've lived in N.y city, Brooklyn N.y, long Island N.y, N. Carolina, fort Lauderdale FL, Miami and Tampa and I have never seen or been in the proximity of a shooting or a mass shooting that I've been aware of
As an American, I think the main reason Americans say their state before their country is because there is SUCH a wide variety of different cultures throughout the USA depending on the region. New York is one thing, California is another thing, the general Midwest is its own thing, the south is its own thing, etc. There will be different accents and different norms and vocabulary and stores from different states and it's just wild. I'm an East Coast gal, but I go to college in the Midwest, and the sheer differences from the two states is insane. 😂
Grew up in Wisconsin, my step dad had chronic pnemonia and was told to get away from the cold, so they moved to Arkansas. I followed them there a year later (1990) and have been living here since.
Adam, Australia, Canada and the Irish Republic also use the term "Soccer" because they have their own national sports called "football" : Australian Rules Football; Canadian Rules Football, and Gaelic Football.
Good review. Interesting topic. My nick tells you where I am. Eastern Pennsylvania. I didn't get my passport until I was 32 when I started getting international assignments at work. But I am also the rare American who has driven coast to coast several times, so I have actually seen many of America's most beautiful places. Others made the great point that you used to be able to visit Canada and Mexico with just a driver's license.
Bottom line is outside of the history of Europe you’ve got every terrain/geography available. Thousands of miles of beaches, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, grasslands, swamps, state and national parks all over the place. Different kind of food all over the place due to the melting pot and its helluva lot cheaper to drive 9 hours to the gulf or 7 hours to the Atlantic for a week than to fly everybody to Europe.
Bruh love the content keep it pushing from pacific northwest usa much love
I live in Connecticut, a state in New England. A passport is not needed to cross state lines, the borders are open, and you can travel freely between states. You only need a passport to leave or enter the US. I live on the Connecticut/Rhode Island border, and I travel into Rhode Island daily. There's just a road sign saying, "Welcome to Rhode Island".
I’m from Massachusetts where the gun laws are extremely strict, and now I live in New Hampshire and any resident can walk into a store and purchase a gun. It’s a wild concept to me because I don’t even know how to use one yet I can purchase one legally at a store down the street from me. However I will say, I have never experienced or seen gun violence. There have been shootings in towns I’ve lived in, but mostly gang related isolated incidences so I’ve never been fearful of it.
Thanks!
Waow, thank you!
I'm from New Mexico. Got my passport when I was 17 so me and my friends could take a trip to England for spring break our Senior year of high school (so much fun!). Got plenty more use of it in college by going down to Juarez, Mexico for the "Drink n Drown Bar Crawls" on Thursdays.
The passport was good for 10 years but by the time it was up for renewal Juarez had become a much more dangerous place for American's and I had no plans on flying anywhere any time soon. I decided to skip the $50 renewal fee and let it lapse.
Edit: Drink n Drown Thursdays was where you could pay $10 to get in to a bar or club on the border strip and get free drinks all night. Or you could buy a $30(sometimes $40) wristband that gave you Drink n Drown access to all 5 bars/clubs on the border strip.
I'm from California.
6:20 Keep in mind that COVID (starting in 2020) created a LOT of lawlessness and violence, as did many "movements" in the US where criminals were out being violent in the streets and wreaking havoc (and ruining what could have been peaceful protests). But notice that suicides have a steady rise whereas homicides have an ebb and flow--this is why you hear many gun advocates, myself included, show much more concern for the mental-health aspect of gun violence than the scary weapon that they choose to use. The mental health part of suicide is obvious, but there is a very high number of non-suicide gun crime that also involves very mentally unstable people. Plus, there is a very concerning correlation between the rise of social media (around 2005) and the steady increase in suicide.
Sorry for the somber rant, but this is an issue that concerns me greatly.
Adam definitely makes some of the best content on YT. 💚💚💚💚
When he says “stay out of bad neighborhoods” he’s basically saying that 99.9% of that type of violence happens in the same areas…and it’s not rocket surgery to know whether you’re in one or not.
Saying the state first has a super simple reason: When we get the question, "Where are you from?" in everyday life in the US, we're asking each other for the state or city. If we're assuming you don't know the city, that's the information we're most used to giving.
Another thing to keep in mind is that until 9/11, you didn’t even need a passport to go between Canada and the U.S. In the same graph Laurence just showed, you can see American passport ownership spiked somewhat after 9/11, and that is a big reason why.
I’m from Michigan/Wisconsin love your videos Adam!
Texan here. Been to Canada three times. Mexico at least five times, and various counties in Europe on my three visits there. Lots of trips within the states. Yes, I keep the passport up to date, even though I don't want to be in a plane that long again.
Hello 👋Colorado here!
I've actually travelled pretty extensively. (Brazil multiple times, a summer in Rome, a summer in India, a trip backpacking across 13 European countries) but that's more the exception than the rule 😁 It sounds unbelievably pretentious saying that, but trust me they were NOT glamorous trips. I ate almost nothing but oatmeal and slept in a tent for weeks and weeks 😂
Football is called football because the length of the ball is a foot = 12 inches. A foot length ball is therefore a football. And the game of football is obviously played with a football.
Hello, Adam. I've lived most of my life in Georgia, but my early childhood was spent in Tennessee, and I was born in Michigan. Americans do tend to live their entire lives close to where they were born, but some also tend to move around a lot. I got my first passport in 2010 so that I could accompany my British wife back home to attend her father's funeral. In 2011, we went back, just for fun this time. After that, my passport has been stored in a lockbox/safe, unused. Those trips to England and back cost me $2000 for round-trip tickets each trip, plus another $3000 in spending money, again, each time. So, $5000 per trip isn't exactly small change, even for the 2010s. My wife however, has three passports: 1 because she was born while her parents were living in Venezuela, South America, 1 because her family were born in England and they moved back there around the time she was 5 years old, and 1 because she moved to the US and applied for citizenship here.
I once had to fly out to New Mexico--just Northeast of Texas, and drive a small moving van/rental truck back here to Georgia. I crossed 6 states, and never needed a passport. That trip took 4 days, although the actual driving time was about 28 hours. Imagine you had a way to drive Eastward for 28 hours on a perfectly flat, straight motorway at 60-70 miles per hour without needing to stop for food, fuel, or loo breaks. What European country would you wind up in after that time? How many times would you have needed to show your passport at a checkpoint?
It's sometimes easiest to think of US states as different countries--even though they aren't--just to visualize the sheer size of the country. --Dan
4:16 I have a question, but let me preface: I know buying store bought bread in the UK is common. How common is homemade bread? The reason I ask, is because its fairly common in certain regions of the U.S., for people to bake their own bread. I'm from Iowa, so eating both store bought and home made is normal. With that said, I'm curious if UK's store bought bread is more akin to our version of homemade bread, with way less sugar or no sugar at all.
I'm from Michigan, left at 23 years old and have been in Florida since....so since 2006. We say the state because America is big and your state and even city can say a lot about who you are. I still do not have a passport because when I was younger I traveled around the US and we didn't need a passport to go into Canada, Mexico, and many other territories. Now you do. With 4 boys and a busy life...along with the expense that comes with, we have to take affordable trips for 6 people and international travel just isn't in the cards. We actually plan on getting passports in 2025 since we will be in a much better financial position by the end of this year with all debt paid off 100%. So excited for this!!
This is the first time I've seen a video by you. It just came up in my feed. I'm from western Nebraska...
I had a passport years ago because I planned a trip that ended up getting canceled. Passports in America (at least when I got mine) aren't cheap. When you add in the cost of the trip on top of that it gets expensive fast, especially if you have a family traveling together. As opposed to that you can drive a few states over and it will be completely different than the state you live in with the added bonus of people speaking the same language as you (though some accents will make you question that).
Minnesota, here! I used to have a passport--went to France (with a lengthy layover in Amsterdam) with my secondary school French class, and spent a semester abroad in Japan while I was in college, but never renewed it once it expired, since I can't afford to travel abroad right now anyway. Might get another one, though, given the 'real ID' thing that's going on. Pretty sure the passport requires less paperwork. These days, when I go on vacation, I'm normally traveling for a convention in another state--and driving, since the normal methods of un-popping your ears during a quick takeoff/landing don't work for me, so I wind up in pain for 2-3 days after flying anywhere.
I'm originally from the central valley in California. It's 2 hours from the beach, 2 hours from the mountains, and 2 hours from the desert. You could ski, dune buggy, and surf all in the same weekend. Lol.
Now I live in Iowa.
Michigan here. The only other country I’ve been to is Canada (although it probably helps that it’s borders my state, lol). For a long time we didn’t need passports to go into Canada. You could just use a copy of your birth certificate to get in. I believe now you can get a special driver’s license that acts as a passport for Canada and Mexico. Having said all that though, I’ve driven to Florida, the West Coast and lived in Texas a while. One trip to the West Coast (Washington State), I put over 6,000 miles on the rental car (I definitely made sure to get it with unlimited mileage, lol). Every time I’ve ever driven from my hometown (near the Indiana border) to Houston, Tx. it always took me 23 hours of driving non-stop (one way). I’ve made that trip a few times and it was always 23 hours of driving straight through just to get there (not 22, not 24, always 23 hours non-stop).
Hi Adam! I was born & raised in the mountains of Montana, but now I call Minnesota home. I have a passport, but unfortunately it expired a few years ago. I first got it in 2004 when I came to Britain on holiday. My favorite sandwich has to be a Reuben with double meat.
In the early 50s a cousin of my mother married a girl from New York. He brought her to live in south Texas with his family. The poor woman would not go outside between the hours of noon and one. She was convinced gun fights always broke out at high noon. Thanks hollyweird.
37, also named Adam, have my passport for a few years now because a group of friends got together to stay at an all inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic. We have since gone to Puerto Rico (no Passport Required). Flights to the DR were expensive then you have to pay another couple thousand (or much more) for the resort. We just get in our car and drive to the beach, mountains, lake houses, etc. For the weekend or week(s). Flying out of the country is a lot of ocean so we can't break up flights as easily. Idk what they even cost I think most people assume it's going to be expensive and how worth it will it be. I'd love to go to Asia and the south Pacific like New Zealand and Australia. Or discover where the first of my American family came from in England. 😅
I’m from Kentucky, the Bluegrass State. 🏇🐎 I just found your channel and quickly subscribed - i love your reactions!
It’s called the World Series because you have many nationalities play for US Baseball teams. Theres a bunch of not just US but, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Koreans, Japanese players etc etc that play for teams.
So the best players from all over the world eventually find their way into the Show. This is one of the reasons most often cited for dubbing the championship game the “World Series”: it contains the best players in the world.
Also, I have a passport. Yet why own one when you’re never gonna leave the country? Doesn’t seem crazy to me.
Pretty damn cool how Lawrence can teach even other Brits things about themselves they never knew.
Hello from hot and humid South Carolina! I’ve had a passport twice. One trip abroad per passport. Each expired and I’ve never renewed after the second one expired. Our driver’s license/state ID is the primary form of needed identification. I was raised in a military family, so I’ve lived all over the country, but still haven’t seen every state. I’d rather focus on that goal moving forward-it’s more cost effective and there is so much to see and experience without having to deal with the expenses and stresses of traveling abroad. Just my opinion. Love your enthusiasm and your channel!
Just found this video but I am from Washington state! The evergreen state as we are known for our lush evergreen trees all year round, our rainy and quite grey weather, coffee, Sasquatch, and every tech company. We are much different from Washington D.C. (which is not an official state, but a federal district as the capitol of the U.S.) and also on opposite coasts. We tend to differentiate for the mix up we get while traveling in the states and getting asked where we were from while just a few states over. This is primarily because of region differences. The PNW (Pacific Northwest) and Midwest are very different regions and the people in said regions are proud of where we're from. The food, language, and culture are so different that we wouldn't want people to assume we're from a region or state that we're not familiar with. I've lived in Washington my whole life and I want people to know that I think of my region and community before they think of the federal government.
IDK thats just my reasoning 🤷🏻♀️
Texas native. Have traveled to some European countries and Mexico. Have a passport. Majority of travel has been to other parts of Texas and other states. Enjoyed meeting people from other countries. Since husband did some hunting, we had firearms in our home. Due to the sudden increase of crime in the 1980's, I purchased a handgun and took a gun safety course to be able to protect my family if husband wasn't home. Thankfully, I never had to use it.
Love your channel. You are always making me laugh. Love ya, from the great state of Texas.
I've had a passport for as long as I can remember and I'm 66 years old. I was born in Germany but have lived in Chicago since I was a baby. My family would travel back to Germany quite often. My husband is from Michigan and never had a passport and he never wanted to travel :( I took the kids to Germany when they were 6 and 8 years old and they loved it. My daughter has the travel bug now. I can't wait to see how you and your family like it here in the states when you come to visit in Oct. Love your channel and you also deserve a million subs and more!