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2016 for me.

Several vacations later, we find we miss some bits but don't really need it. The USA just gets scarier every year and Europe is just so much nicer for biking and walking.

I am low key irritated by the number of people I know who continue to travel to the US. And for pure recreation because the sales are so good.

The biggest damage to the US's reputation, in my mind as a not particularly anti-American Northern European, is that they've shown they can only be trusted for 4 years at a time. It's impossible to form a long-term relationship with someone like that, and I'm not much into short-term ones.

It's now habituated to avoid the US.

I do virtual presentations for the US and everyone understands. The only real problem is that vacation rentals in Ontario are a total ripoff and are now exceeding lockdown era gouging. Boomers.

I now look at every product I buy to make sure it's not from the US.

One day, I wish to go back to Hanauma Bay, Fernbank, the GA Aquarium, NYC, Seattle, sanfran, and travel to see more and new tourism spots. I want to drive across it; or a train if possible.

None of this will happen while there's a chance I can be kidnapped for 6 weeks. And it's not gonna happen for a while after.

I truly hope the USA can become an American Union of freely-associated states, like the EU. Let them each choose a new governor, etc, via whatever means, let them pool resources for stuff as agreed, let people migrate freely to where they're most happy. Let the bigoted uneducated masses occupy the (downstream) portions of the inner-states if they want, but they're gonna have to trade for what they get handed now.

In short, though, I don't think hanauma bay is in the cards. So we're already to where mom can't go with us to honour and remember my uncle where he was happiest. We'll be honoring them both when we go back, and that's just a fact of life.

I'm Canadian, but grew up in Hawaii. I love Hawaii with all of my heart, but i have no desire to go back to the US until they deal with their fascist infestation.

I also shop at a grocery and liquor store that boycotts all US products...so we're moving on.

Is it weird that it's written as if to imply that Canadians would normally find it difficult to resist visiting the US, or am I reading too much into it?

Not yet. We need our own tech services rather than still relying on the "tech bros" of the usa. If I have to communicate with the Canadian government using Twitter (X), which they have on their official website, then we are still relying very heavily on the usa. C'mon! BBS's were a dime a dozen back in the day. None of this is rocket science. Let's put a team on this!

I would sooner visit North Korea, although there's not much difference anymore. Torture, concentration camps, absurd threats to wipe out entire civilizations, militarized police and panopticon surveillance, guns everywhere, luxury and decadence for the rich and famous while the working class have to compete against their neighbors to balance on a precarious, dystopian knife edge to survive.

There is nothing appealing to me about anything in the USA anymore. Extremely hard pass.

I live in the US and don't want to be here anymore why would anyone else want to come here if they aren't stupid? Would you have gone on vacation in nazi Germany?

The longer Trump and his cronies are in charge the harder it is to recognize the USA as anything other than a rouge state. Americans keep saying that the Democrats are just as bad and we don't see as much pushback from citizens as we'd see elsewhere so it's hard to believe that America is a country you'd want to be associated with. I know many people who live stateside that are looking for ways to leave. I also know many Canadians who still travel to the USA and many of them aren't people whose values and ethics I agree with. If Trump were gone tomorrow and America tried to make amends around the world but who are we kidding, that would never happen. Americans are conditioned to believe everything is someone else's fault and responsibility. So no, I don't see myself going to the USA any time soon. Now that they've created a jet fuel shortage, it's harder to go anywhere.

I'm pissed because I moved here from Australia about 5 years ago and part of the appeal was the ease of doing road trips to various US locations. I have not been since arriving and can't see myself ever going (I'm not young and can't see things improving enough in my lifetime)

Dear Canadians,

I don't blame you. Don't spend a single "loon" in the U.S.

At this point why ruin a good thing. Flyover states indeed.

All I’ve learned is that most Canadians won’t change their behaviour for anything. Just 25% is sad.

In my experience co-workers talk down on the US government in conversation and then happily fly over for their industry conference. Politics is just entertainment to them.

Until the pedophile king decides to invade us.. Then we would not need to travel to the US anymore.

I never went and will never go. Most csnadisn eill ptobably return after Trump is out