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Having been born in the UK and travelled to Europe a lot, jeez do we get it easy there. You can drive across ten countries in a month and have nobody blink twic
by mafro 15y ago
Having been born in the UK and travelled to Europe a lot, jeez do we get it easy there. You can drive across ten countries in a month and have nobody blink twice. They see the coat of arms on the UK passport and just wave you through.
The one time I did go to America was precisely through the port the OP did - from Niagara into Buffalo. I got asked some pretty awkward questions and made to feel quite uncomfortable - at the time I thought they were massive bunch of assholes.
He really didn't understand that we were just going over the border for 2 hours to eat chicken wings!
- maxerickson 15y agoIt's just different. The lower 48 is roughly twice the size of the Schengen area, without any border control anywhere. Throw in Mexico, Canada and Alaska and you are up to 6 times the area, with 3 borders (and the Canada-Alaska border is sort of its own thing). "It's a big place" doesn't really relate back to border control policy, but the borders of the U.S. and Canada aren't really all that similar to the borders of countries like the Netherlands or Spain.
- wmoxam 15y ago"the borders of the U.S. and Canada aren't really all that similar to the borders of countries like the Netherlands or Spain" They used to be.
- maxerickson 15y agoYeah. I was thinking more about the physical scope of it and the variety and amount of traffic. I imagine it would be far less expensive for the U.S. and Canada to just open the border and spend some of the savings on policing any problems from that, but I don't really expect that to happen in the near future.