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I find it odd that people say this, considering there are only 21 states with a higher percentage of passport-carrying residents than Pennsylvania. The only way that's near the bottom is if we cut the number of states in half somehow.
So Pennsylvania is about in the middle for passport-carrying residents. It's #4 in residents born in state. When you look at individual cities and counties, sometimes the % is very high. For example, in Beaver County, Patterson Twp, about 10 mi. from Ohio: http://www.city-data.com/city/Pennsylvania2.html
Population: 3054. % born in PA: 86.5%.
66% of Patterson Township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Pennsylvania.
I just put together a map illustrating the percentage of residents with passports in each state:
I bet this map would have a pretty strong inverse correlation with the percentage of people who have never left their state of residence. In other words, the lighter the color of the state on the map above, the more likely you'd encounter a person who's never left their state of residence, and the darker the color of the state, the less likely you'd encounter such a person.
But maybe I'm being naive, and I should just start conflating townships with entire states, and conflating the population over the age of 50 with the entire population.
The farthest my brother's been away is South Dakota...about 600 miles from here.
I asked a girl the last time she was in NYC...she said she never left the state (Minnesota), but I doubt that, because the place she worked at was about one or two miles from Wisconsin, by road.
The Philly/Pennsylvania homers who invariably show up on any thread with something not positive about the "beloved homeland" can't help themselves and interestingly enough none of it is ever true....it just can't be because it's such a perfect place to live.
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Until age 14 I had only been to a couple counties outside Kentucky, and they were border counties (the one Cincinnati is in and a Tennessee county - to help get my older brother out of jail LOL). My single mother simply didn't have the money travel. I was also 15 before I ever ate at a restaurant where a tip was left.
Since then I have got to travel a bit more. Now that I have a good job and two weeks of vacation time per year I'd like to travel a bunch more
I have a number of relatives here in Mass, that almost fit this category. If it were not for the closeness of the other New England states, especially Rhode Island. Then they would never have been out of Mass. To each their own though.
The Philly/Pennsylvania homers who invariably show up on any thread with something not positive about the "beloved homeland" can't help themselves and interestingly enough none of it is ever true....it just can't be because it's such a perfect place to live.
There's nothing "homer" about refuting misinformation and specious assertions.
At any rate, as multiple people have pointed out, there's no truly informative data on this topic. Anecdotes are interesting and provide a personal perspective, but they aren't helpful for understanding demographic data comprehensively.
So Pennsylvania is about in the middle for passport-carrying residents. It's #4 in residents born in state. When you look at individual cities and counties, sometimes the % is very high. For example, in Beaver County, Patterson Twp, about 10 mi. from Ohio: http://www.city-data.com/city/Pennsylvania2.html
Again, nativity rates have nothing to do with mobility/travel habits of native residents.
If the topic was, which states have the fewest outsiders or non-natives, then absolutely, there's no doubt that Pennsylvania would be up there -- but that's not what this thread is addressing.
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