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while it may be true that the US is "insanely expensive" (citation needed!), i'm curious how you square that with the linked data showing a sharp drop-off since
by igor47 1y ago
while it may be true that the US is "insanely expensive" (citation needed!), i'm curious how you square that with the linked data showing a sharp drop-off since the beginning of the trump administration. is the theory that things have gotten much more expensive recently? why was travel from many EU countries actually up just before the trump administration took office?
- herbst 1y agoI doubt it has to do much with money. Right now you couldn't even say "I am going to the US for vacation" without getting a strange eye. People are avoiding buying anything with an American flag. Tesla's are literally returned and broken on the streets. Really I highly doubt it's about money at all.
- laurencerowe 1y agoThe US has gotten insanely expensive for Europeans but that has been happening since 2008. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US-FR-GB-DE https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location... The arbitrary detentions of foreign visitors at the border make me feel it would be unwise for my parents to come visit us in the US at the moment - they're too old to risk weeks of immigration detention. They are also now detaining US citizens at the border, though they seem to be focussing on immigration attorneys so hopefully we'll be ok on the way back. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/treated-like-a-criminal-us-citizen-says-he-was-detained-returning-from-canada/3686188/ https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/treated-like-a-crimi...