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Originally Posted by Norman Bates
Mother says many small town Americans don't have passports - and so can't cross-border shop.
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Mother is right, as usual. I have spent a hell of a lot of time in upstate NY and the vast majority of people you meet in Ogdensburg, Potsdam, Canton, Malone, etc. don't have passports, have never been to Canada and strangely enough have no idea that Ottawa exists... a metropolitan area of 1.5 million people 45 minutes away... it's a really weird place, Upstate NY.