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Originally Posted by acottawa
Canadians hate to travel. There is no culture of travelling on a gap year, no culture of going to another province for school, no culture of moving for a better job. Canadians know their closest large city, the closest border city, their closest cottage district, and their cheapest sunwing destination.
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This is of course a little hyperbolic, but, there is enough truth to this statement to be pretty uncomfortable.
Certainly as far as interregional movement in the country is concerned, Canadians are more parochial than Americans. We are less likely to travel across the country to go to university, or for a new job. Americans don't think twice about moving from Boston to San Francisco. They treat their
whole country like their backyard.
Internationally, while I think that Canadians on the whole are a little more knowledgeable about the world than their American counterparts, we are less likely to travel the world. Some of this is because we aren't as wealthy as Americans, making travel relatively more expensive, but, there is also something culturally going on there too.