According to a study which appears in El Mundo today, around half of all Spaniards have never this country in their lifetime. 10% have apparently never left their province (moving up to, I suspect, about 90% in my pueblo).
I can't imagine the numbers for the UK in comparison (or care less), but at least among us foreign residents, I'm proud to say... 'we've all been abroad'!

True, but that never stopped them building airports in some pretty remote places! Just in case they get into the habit of travelling.

I could swear I've seen remote outposts where at least half of them are doolallytap and never even been outside their own tiny pueblitos in their lifetime.

I used to live in a place rather like that in the UK. When I moved there and would tell people that I commuted to work in Manchester (all of 25 miles away) they would look at me aghast and say "What, you go there every day? I went once and I didn't like it." They rarely went anywhere outside the Valley (Rossendale that is).

Maybe they were the wise ones, I doubt if you'd see this in Manchester.

Shame, the link didn't work, it was a pleasant scene, way out of the ordinary

What was it, you've piqued my interest now! Don't keep us in suspense.

Simple, the vast majority came from foreign part

I can believe it. When I used to travel up to Batley and Dewsbury there were many job schemes and it was said that people in Batley wouldn't even consider applying for a job in Huddersfield which was only about 10 miles away Is it a northern thing

Likewise in Andalucía many of the older generation have never had a holiday.

Check out the second one in the first batch of four.


http://menmedia.co.uk/rossendalefree...he-big-picture

Can't see them being around for very long in Manchester.

Being an expat forum, we've all travelled around some. Most people don't, they stay in their area.

The difficult question is; who is better off, the travellers, or the stay-at-homes?

I don't know the answer, I was watching a video earlier from a school friend who gets homesick if he moves ten miles away. I'm a thousand miles away, but sometimes I wish I was a bit nearer home.

But I was in the pool today, along with the Doberman, and the little terrier, and my wife.

I think I'll stop where I am.

I read somewhere a while back that only 8% of Americans hold passports. I know thats still a lot of Americans, but even so ......

I was talking to my neighbour a couple of weeks ago, she's 82 and has never seen the sea or the beach in her life - all of 35 minutes drive away!

Equally - in another life, I worked in a jobcentre in Nottingham where there were job vacancies available on the other side of the city (not a huge distance - 2 buses) they recoiled with horror at the suggestion - I had recently moved there from London and found that totally astonishing

But the US is so big! Just because a few Brits have travelled to Spain for their holidays doesn't make them worldly wise. For the most part it's still full English and fish and chips when they get here - it's just that the beer is cheaper.

It's true very few US citizens hold passports it's the same for the French as one French customer told me a few years back. Why do we need to travel? we have the sun in the south, we can ski in the west and we have the wild and rugged in the North. He went on to add that very few countries speak French and language can be a problem and the food anywhere else is shit.

I don't know what came as a bigger shock to me - my mother telling me she'd taken part in the Poll Tax riots, or the fact it'd had been the first time she'd been to London proper (she had flown from a London airport before).
I'm always surprised by people who haven't visited the capital city where they live. But that's just me.