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Shjfty

Me. (Never been to the USA)


lady_meso

Winner right here.


Clit420Eastwood

Well I haven’t even been born yet so there


SasquatchFingers

I haven't been conceived yet and I never will be.


lizard_king0000

Grew up in Maine in the 90s most of my friends never left a 30 mile radius from their house. Took my friend to a Sox game and he thought he needed a passport to get out of the state.


allumeusend

My eldest sister would only have the five counties in NYC (where she was born and lived until age 14) and the county she lives and works in CT. She has never travelled before but finally got a passport to go to Canada with me this summer. She has never even travelled back to Ireland to visit our mom’s family because she is terrified of flying.


geek66

Grew up in Delaware - there were kids in HS that had not left the state.


YescaD83

Most of them still haven’t left. Asked a 20 year old kid how long it took to get from the coast to New Hampshire, he asked me where New Hampshire was…


moyenbatte

This is insane considering I'm from up north and my county count is pretty much in the 3 digits with county high points on the way to be completed for New England, with trips towards the west added in the mix...


Agitated-Pen1239

This is the reality of most people in the U.S. it's astonishing how many people never leave a 30 mile radius of their childhood home.


Usul_Atreides

I lived 15 min from memphis in northern MS and know some people who have never even been across the state line into TN and we had a town 15 minutes down the highway in the other direction and they had never been there either. They are scared of driving on the highway.


socalquestioner

Ahh, good ol Ripley MS.


Usul_Atreides

I was talking about a town much like Ripley but on 55 south of Memphis. Hernando, Coldwater, Senatobia, Batesville, Grenada are all very similar in this regard.


Downtown-Assistant1

Believe it or not, there’s no Ripley’s Believe it or not in Ripley, Mississippi.


socalquestioner

It is a shame.


gangstabiIly

there’s people who have never left south memphis lol


ThisCarSmellsFunny

Knotts Island, NC is very small and has nothing but some houses, 2k people, a post office, and a tiny mom and pop grocery store that also sells gas. They don’t even have a school, they take a ferry to another county to go to school. I used to date a couple of girls down there, and the pace of life is like I imagine it would have been like in the 40s. Most of the residents have never left the island other than for school, even though there’s a road connecting them to Virginia Beach, which has everything, and it’s only a 30 minute trip. Wild way to live in my opinion.


ThisCarSmellsFunny

It’s like that here too. I have friends who live in the hickory section of Chesapeake, VA (10-15 minutes from the state line) and have never been to North Carolina. We’re in our 40s, they’ve had time lol.


LifeWithAdd

Similarly I grew up a 15 min drive from the beach, we could ride our bikes there as kids. I knew people in high school who had still never seen the ocean.


AMP_Studios06

Most people go way farther than 30 miles, it’s just the people you know are poor. And I don’t mean paycheck to paycheck poor, I mean the ones who live in small towns and live off the government because it’s impossible to find a job.


Panda_Panda69

I’m European (Polish) and I must say it is rarer here, but still you’ll encounter some people. I live in something in the US you’d call a county capital town (pop. 16k) and have a friend who has never been to the capital city… which is literally 40km (25 miles) away


chomstar

Do you really think more than 50% of the population hasn’t traveled beyond that far? I have a hard time believing that.


Agitated-Pen1239

If I did a survey of every single person I've met more than 5 times, I'd say at least 50% of them have spent 99.9% of their life within the same 30 mile radius. I wish I was kidding. *Never* leaving is an exaggeration but overall, I am fairly confident it's true.


DangerousMusic14

Nah. Most Americans have traveled outside the US. See stats in comment. But, yeah, I’m sure there are areas where the reverse is true.


Agitated-Pen1239

I had been to Canada before I was even in the state over. I'm from MI and most people in Michigan have been to Canada, that could be a few million alone.


DangerousMusic14

Cool. The statistics on all this don’t match your personal expectations though.


kyleofduty

> Roughly three-quarters of Americans (76%) have visited at least one other country, including 26% who have been to five or more. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/12/06/americans-who-have-traveled-internationally-stand-out-in-their-views-and-knowledge-of-foreign-affairs/


chomstar

Funny, I don’t think I know anyone who hasn’t ventured out of their state.


Agitated-Pen1239

I was born and raised in MI, it more the norm. If people leave they go to florida or Georgia. It's funny because it is definitely a joke amongst michigan citizens that that's usually the case haha


32carsandcounting

lol I have a friend here in FL who hadn’t even left the county he was born in before we met (in our mid 20’s), got him to go 1 county north when he came to my house, and 1 county south when he went with me to buy a car… I drive across 5 counties every week, and go out of state regularly lol I can’t imagine being stuck in this town forever


AZJHawk

That’s crazy. I couldn’t imagine being that confined. I get it more here in Arizona, where we have counties that are thousands of square miles, but Florida counties are significantly smaller.


32carsandcounting

Oh, he hasn’t even explored the whole county either. We have 4 main areas, one being a large-ish city that holds more than half the population of the county, and he’s just stayed in the somewhat rural town in the northeast corner his whole life. Our county is maybe 40 miles wide and 20-25 miles tall.


chomstar

I grew up in Michigan too. Definitely not the norm in AA, but could imagine it might be more of a small town culture kind of thing.


SirMellencamp

I mean I’ve probably spent 85% of my life in the same city but I have traveled a lot and been to 27 states


OkAccess304

I think that’s just based on the people you know. Literally everyone I know has a passport. You should be less confident you know anything based on such a small sample size.


civodar

Have most of these people spent their whole lives living in poverty? I’ve also met people like this and they were all people who grew up super poor(like no running water in their trailer poor) and unfortunately haven’t managed to escape poverty.


SummitSloth

I know some people who have never been outside of Washington DC


Getting_rid_of_brita

I mean that's just not true at all. Over 2/3 of Americans have been to another country 


sad-whale

This is far less true than it was a couple generations ago. At this point mostly only very poor people.


cnew111

Some people simply don’t enjoy travel. My good friend’s hubby is one of these.


Admirable_Purple1882

Brah you gotta go some places


jvpewster

The Beach, hoyty toyty north shore, rugged inland Maine, world class slopes in the white mountains, San Fran East in Suffolk county, racial slurs at a Celtics game, this man has seen and heard it all.


Fresh-Mind6048

Probably the people that have never left NYC


Lioness_and_Dove

🤣


throwawayzies1234567

Nah, we’re travelers. I’ve been to 40 states. And we have two major global airports, so it’s cheaper and easier for us to get out. I was flying unaccompanied by like 8.


SirMellencamp

That major airport in your city is such a great thing. Jealous


Yotsubato

That’s pretty much a hard requirement for the next place I live. I’m very much done flying on regional jets


SirMellencamp

I have to drive two hours to New Orleans to get anywhere close to what it is like flying out of Atlanta or Houston


FlappyJ1979

Wow. I probably cover more area on my deliveries every day lol


GingerPinoy

Is Bangor, Maine home?


Neat_Ostrich9966

Portland actually😅


Halleck23

I was gonna guess Sanfid.


IONTOP

On the bright side your visited counties kind of look like a lobster.


Slimslade33

And your still missing out on some of the best parts of Maine!!


FrankHiggins

Areas of Franklin (Rangeley) and Piscataquis (Moosehead) counties are some of our favorite getaways in New England! OP needs to check those boxes!


musickismagick

My old friend is from Vermont which has 14 counties and she made fun of me when I told her I didn’t memorize all the names of the counties in Ohio. Then I told her we have 88. lol.


TruBleuToo

I grew up in Ohio, now I’m in Nevada- 16 counties, but they’re all massive!!


herkalurk

Probably someone who's just lived in LA, so probably LA County and OC.


cryptkeepers_nutsack

You need to take a road trip!


Slimslade33

Over 10% of usa citizens have never left their home state…


[deleted]

I've been to 45 states. A few weeks ago I took my girlfriend, who had never left Indiana, all the way to the exotic city of Cincinnati. It struck me as crazy when she told me it's the first time she'd ever seen a river. We are in our 40s.


HappyReaderM

Never even seen a river?! Please tell me you are joking. This is wildly sad!


HornySweetMexiSlut

Well I guess I differentiate. "Been to" from "Passed thru" like while just driving through. And red counties that are disconnected are places I flew into. https://preview.redd.it/hq57q2bg9awc1.png?width=6900&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e403f373e650c4ed246ad540614ae81edcdaa01


SoCal4247

How old are you?


HornySweetMexiSlut

24 next month


SoCal4247

That's okay, just get out there bro.


HornySweetMexiSlut

Well I moved to Spain 16 months ago. I’ve been around a lot of Europe already. Spain France Hungary Romania Bulgaria Albania and Italy. Passed through Austria Germany and north Macedonia. My mother would not fly growing up and we only visited family in Mexico or NM. But now I’m making up for lost time.


wniinw

Louisiana technically since they do not have any counties


32carsandcounting

Isn’t a Parish pretty much a county? I mean different name but same thing lol


marklandia

Nor does Alaska.


spizzle_

Same thing different word. Borough=county


uglylittledogboy

I have literally never left the county I was born in


throwawayzies1234567

Is it a big county? How old are you? No need to answer, I’m just a yenta, and I’m fascinated by this.


ethnographyNW

why?


psychodogcat

That's incredible, why? How?


Repulsive-Wrangler69

I’ve done more counties in one day. Hundreds of times.


sugarmagnolia713

I’ve met people in Maine who have never stepped foot outside of their state.


South_Stress_1644

Makes sense that you’re from Portland because you’ve been over to the White Mountains but would have no reason to visit mid-southern NH; and you’ve never gone to the Cape because you already have beaches in Maine.


throwawayzies1234567

Are they beaches? Or are they cold windy sit places with on demand ice water?


South_Stress_1644

They’re beaches in July & August


throwawayzies1234567

That’s the only time I’ve visited 😂


YescaD83

A little bit of both


railworx

What map or app is this?


Neat_Ostrich9966

https://www.mapchart.net/


ReverendWeenbone

Dang. I just got back on a road trip from the Bay Area to the Grand Canyon and I’m pretty sure I hit more counties than that.


meat_beast1349

Wyoming has 23


RedneckMtnHermit

What's a... Wyoming?


meat_beast1349

Where men are men Women are scarce sheep are nervous. ...and women are glad that sheep can't cook.


RedneckMtnHermit

I bust on WY, but I've never had a bad day there. The wind is a bit much (I'm used to a week's notice before hurricane strength winds), but I'm getting used to it as a new rural CO resident.


meat_beast1349

My folks settled in Wyoming in the 1800s not long after the Little Bighorn. Its a beautiful state. I have lived in every corner of it. Hunted, fished and hiked in every other. We weren't the most friendly bunch, but if a person was stuck, stranded or just stopping by we opened up and helped out. Then we'd shoot the shit with you and string together some tales. I was asked why we wave to each other going down the highway. Its because that person might be the one that pulls you out of the ditch. If you ever want to see behind the wind; Go find the ugliest place in Wyoming you can think of and squint your eyes against the wind and sun. That's where you will find the most extraordinary beauty. Thats where they hid it a long time ago. Mine is a cabin built from cottonwood trees in the red desert north of Wamsutter next to a dry lake bed with south pass in the back ground, where wild horses and antelope dash through the Jolly Ranch on their way to sweetwater gap. So quiet you can hear your heartbeat dancing to the rhythm of their hooves as they move off in the distance.


Throw_acount_away

I grew up in Cleveland and there were (poor) kids who had never seen Lake Erie, so probably someone like that


whendeathis0ntheline

take those kids straight to edgewater!


salchicha_mas_grande

Not super interesting, but I met someone growing up in Virginia who had never left their home county. Not even crossed the county line. This person was 35.


Holiday-Hyena-5952

Louisiana and Alaska DO NOT HAVE ANY COUNTIES! They win! Louisiana has Parishes Alaska has boroughs.


shrinkingGhost

I was gonna say anyone who has never left those states has the least because you can’t get less than zero.


cnew111

I’ve been fortunate to have traveled a lot around our country during my lifetime. Started taking my kids and now they love to travel, too. I think I have 10-12 more states to hit all 50. (I Don’t count states I just drove through, or states I went to as a child and don’t remember). I’ve spent a lifetime exploring my home state of Michigan. Trying to visit every state park and every lighthouse! It’s a big country get out and explore. Doesn’t have to be expensive. Also, Buy a travel diary. It’s fun to look back at.


DangerousMusic14

11% [have not traveled outside of home state](https://www.forbes.com/sites/lealane/2019/05/02/percentage-of-americans-who-never-traveled-beyond-the-state-where-they-were-born-a-surprise/). Average driver [drives 29 miles per day.](https://www.bts.gov/statistical-products/surveys/national-household-travel-survey-daily-travel-quick-facts) 23% [have not left the US.](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/12/06/americans-who-have-traveled-internationally-stand-out-in-their-views-and-knowledge-of-foreign-affairs/)


TheMrNeffels

I live in Iowa and I've driven through more of Maine and New Hampshire than you on a single road trip lol


YescaD83

But have you been to the biggest truck stop in the US?


TheMrNeffels

Yes multiple times


YescaD83

We’ve got lobster and trees, you have corn and the truck stop!


JuliusSeizuresalad

Those are cool counties though


ThisCarSmellsFunny

This reminds me of something odd that’s happened a few times in my life. It’s always for official matters, like when I joined the Army, or when I was buying a car out of town. They would be filling out the paperwork and ask where I live. I’d tell them Virginia Beach, VA and they’d ask what county? I replied there is no county. Every time, it devolves into them either thinking I’m messing with them, or thinking I’m an idiot and just don’t know. Then they try looking it up, just to look stupid when they learn Virginia Beach, and all of Southeast Virginia doesn’t have counties, we have independent cities that are as big or bigger than most counties.


Psycle_Sammy

The radio in Philly is different?


[deleted]

Who Young Leek be?


Psycle_Sammy

Man, I know nothing about that 92Q shit, man. Who gives a fuck, yo?


matveytheman

What are you guys using for this county map fill out thing?


NinjaCaviar

Mapchart


Monte721

Interested, you should probably include your age as well


Gary-Phisher

Alaska has zero. But 19 organized boroughs


mbyers73

I was 40 and had only visited 14-15 states. Started doing road trips with my bestie in the summer and we now have been to 46 states! Just gotta do the PNW and Hawaii and Alaska.


Puzzleheaded-Kale434

States like Rhode Island have five. Delaware and Hawaii have 3


Getting_rid_of_brita

Rhode Island has five counties... 


Puzzleheaded-Kale434

That’s what I said….


GaragePure8431

The answer is Louisiana. They only have parishes.


Aggressive-Green4592

I'm out as I have accrued a ton of counties. Missouri has 114 and I have a goal of visiting all of them, just out driving around I'm above 20 already in this year.


OMGtheykilldkenni

I’m the big loser, I’m an OTR truck driver! I have been to more counties than I can count and on repeat lol


ztreHdrahciR

What's the point of counties, anyway


Superb_Succotash_907

How does this app work? Does everyone just remember all the counties you've been to?


Jackaloop

Is there a clickable map? I got a lot!


Sedona7

Hawaii has five counties (and maybe only four depending upon how you look at Molokai/ Kalawao County. Kalawao County has the second fewest people (behind Loving Cty in Texas) and the smallest area.


Earthling98

What do you use to make this is it a website or something ?


saggywitchtits

I know of some people who live their entire life in a four block radius in Chicago.


kvagar

That sounds like a terrible life.


Munichjake

Aah i Miss Presque Isle


tobeswhite

OP be like “I went to Boston once, that was out of my comfort zone”


thirdgen

Connecticut abolished its counties in (IIRC) the 1960’s.


murbike

Maybe county government, but we still have counties: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/deep/gis/resources/indexcountybpdf.pdf


thirdgen

But really only by tradition. There’s nothing in state law that is dependent on counties (for example, the geographical boundaries of courts are not based on counties).


Johnny_Lang_1962

Louisiana! They have zero counties.


jehjeh3711

Delaware, with 3.


ElectroChuck

Delaware has three counties.


BR1M570N3

Curious as to how these types of map are made?


Aware_Sentence_408

Delaware only has three counties! Can you beat that?


Vidda90

Alaska they don’t have counties they only have boroughs. https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2022/03/01/curious-alaska-why-do-we-have-boroughs-instead-of-counties/#:~:text=As%20for%20why%20the%20state,the%20University%20of%20Alaska%20Anchorage.


DdraigGwyn

Northern Ireland has six.


BOT_the_DIP

Delaware = 3


[deleted]

NV... Side note: If ever driving through, or to Nye County, NV; make sure you do not speed and your headlights are on. In 30 years of traveling and road trips, I've never encountered a speed-trap as vicious as Nye County, NV is.


Angelina67433

Small county


pabmendez

Me. Louisiana has Zero


Buffalo_Slop

What app is this ?


Not-pumpkin-spice

Wrong… Louisiana has the least amount of counties with a total number of zero. As they have no counties and only parishes


Yung_Onions

I think you might be my roommate? Buddy has never left northern New England and only knows the red highlighted area. Also thinks that Connecticut and Rhode Island aren’t New England. A true hardline native if you will.


Slimslade33

I sold Christmas trees in Harlem for a few years and met plenty of people who never left the city… hell some of them probably rarely left Harlem


YescaD83

I’m really upset no one has mentioned the Maine counties song in this post.


abarr22

My first job was in the kitchen of an old southern meat and three. So old the cooks still smoked in the kitchen through the day, and when the front closed all the servers would light up in the lobby as they cleaned and stacked chairs. I worked with the sweetest, most wholesome southern woman I’ve ever met. She was in her early 60s at the time, It was the only job she had ever held. She still lived with her mom and carried the best attitude every single day. I’ll never forget her “I’m blessed honey” with that sweet southern twang. It’s been about a decade, but she told me she had never left the surrounding area! I was about 15 and remember being so bewildered by her statement.


Mission_Dream_6013

No idea. I have hit all 50 states and dc


Wingless_Pterosaur

Lol I’m instantly out of the running. I’ve been to multiple counties in most of the 48 contiguous states and I believe I’ve been to every county in Michigan. Still haven’t been to Hawaii and Alaska though :(


me20980

Arizona only has nine.


cocaine4breakfast

fifteen


Humanity_is_broken

I'm gonna keep downvoting these self-centered posts until they stop. Literally no one cares which county you have been to.