The average American has been to 5.
I’ve been to 16 but suspect some of you have been to many more than that.
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The average American has been to 5.
I’ve been to 16 but suspect some of you have been to many more than that.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | August 15, 2025 2:50 AM |
13, including my hometown, which is listed. Surprisingly.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 13, 2025 1:06 AM |
26, because I’ve avoided most cities in the south or midwest.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 13, 2025 1:07 AM |
Me too, r2. But my guess is you’ve been to more CA cities than me.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 13, 2025 1:08 AM |
I've been to 22 of them. 25 if you count changing planes there (but never leaving the airport).
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 13, 2025 1:09 AM |
16 as well.
List Dallas & Ft. Worth separately is bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 13, 2025 1:09 AM |
46. I enjoy traveling.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 13, 2025 1:09 AM |
29.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 13, 2025 1:11 AM |
I've been to 33. Actually, I was surprised at how many I hadn't been to. During my working years, I travelled extensively across the US and the rest of the world. And the company let us keep the frequent flyer points!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 13, 2025 1:11 AM |
R3 I lived in three of the CA cities and 6 cities on the list, overall.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 13, 2025 1:12 AM |
I have been to 23.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 13, 2025 1:12 AM |
28.
r5, I have more trouble with Minneapolis & Saint Paul being listed separately because you can just walk over a bridge from one to the other. But Dallas and Fort Worth are actually genuinely separated by some genuine spatial distance.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 13, 2025 1:12 AM |
Dallas and Fort Worth are 32 miles apart.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 13, 2025 1:14 AM |
41, 42 if you count driving through Oakland
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 13, 2025 1:14 AM |
I recounted, actually 31.
And I've lived in 5 of the cities - 3 in CA, one in Hawaii and one in New York.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 13, 2025 1:15 AM |
Wow many more than I would have thought until I started counting them. I always thought of myself as housebound, I guess I'm not after all lol. I have to get over my FOMO.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 13, 2025 1:19 AM |
19, and I'm not even American!
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 13, 2025 1:19 AM |
I've been to 30. Kind of surprised myself since I rarely travel for work, so this has all been done on my own or traveling through with a brief visit on my way to another destination.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 13, 2025 1:20 AM |
12 of the 50
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 13, 2025 1:20 AM |
28 but mostly for work, not for fun.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 13, 2025 1:21 AM |
I've been to 41.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 13, 2025 1:24 AM |
So many of the ones I've not been to I have no urge to ever visit: Indianapolis, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Tampa, Columbus, Sacramento, Oklahoma City, San Jose. No interest in ever going to any of those cities (sorry, posters who live there and like those cities).
I'm sorry I've not been to Detroit, Miami, or Tulsa for the interesting architecture (and for the great museum in Detroit). I'm sorry I've not been to San Antonio because it's supposed to be very pretty. But that's about it.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 13, 2025 1:24 AM |
20.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 13, 2025 1:26 AM |
Twenty-eight, probably half on my motorcycle.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 13, 2025 1:27 AM |
32. I used to support trade shows in, apparently, bleak places.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 13, 2025 1:28 AM |
13, including my hometown
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 13, 2025 1:32 AM |
36
Mainly missed the deepest red portions of the Trump belt
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 13, 2025 1:35 AM |
23 of them.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 13, 2025 1:36 AM |
14, including my hometown.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 13, 2025 1:37 AM |
Only 20, not counting airports.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 13, 2025 1:43 AM |
36 if I'm allowed to count cities I've driven through on various cross country trips. Maybe 30 if I have to limit myself to places where I've at least stopped to have a meal, if not stayed overnight.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 13, 2025 1:44 AM |
I'm counting the ones I've driven through, r30. I've driven across the US four times and I would have at least stopped for gas or a bite in them, if not a hotel stay.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 13, 2025 1:46 AM |
I agree r21.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 13, 2025 1:47 AM |
10 and I’m surprised it’s that many. I never travel in the US.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 13, 2025 1:50 AM |
38. I travel a lot for work.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 13, 2025 1:52 AM |
You’re right that Minneapolis and St. Paul is more dumb R11. I didn’t catch that.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 13, 2025 1:53 AM |
[quote] 46. I enjoy traveling.
Same here. I used to travel a lot for work and went to what are to me relatively obscure places (Indianapolis, Columbus). The four I haven't been to are Las Vegas, New Orleans, Nashville and Tampa.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 13, 2025 1:54 AM |
37, about half of those just for work.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 13, 2025 2:19 AM |
17
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 13, 2025 2:21 AM |
20, but many just once and very briefly
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 13, 2025 2:27 AM |
33! (not the factorial though)
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 13, 2025 2:30 AM |
45. Missing are Jacksonville (I've been close, but that was enough), OK City (I have friends there, may be some day), Tulsa (probably never), St. Paul (I ran out of time when I went to Minneapolis), and San Jose (why bother?).
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 13, 2025 2:31 AM |
34
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 13, 2025 2:36 AM |
41 here. Three more if you count airport connections.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 13, 2025 2:40 AM |
I’ve been to 45. That includes four I’ve lived in.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 13, 2025 2:43 AM |
25 (three or four were airport layovers)
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 13, 2025 2:59 AM |
23.and that number is not going to increase for another 3 years.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 13, 2025 3:00 AM |
4 and I'm happy with that.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 13, 2025 3:02 AM |
23
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 13, 2025 3:06 AM |
I've been to all of them except Charlotte, Houston, Tulsa, and Louisville.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 13, 2025 3:13 AM |
23 in the city proper. 34 if including airports.
I knew when I saw the thread and that all the cities are U.S. cities that there would be some people whose mental issues would limit them from going to as many places as they could have, and I see that I was correct.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 13, 2025 3:17 AM |
[quote] that there would be some people whose mental issues would limit them from going to as many places as they could have
?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 13, 2025 3:19 AM |
I was expecting Jacksonville to be really awful. It wasn't. Then again, I had been in Atlantic City a few days before.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 13, 2025 3:24 AM |
[quote] I was expecting Jacksonville to be really awful. It wasn't
I was only there once and the one time was because of the naval base.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 13, 2025 3:27 AM |
[quote] and San Jose (why bother?).
Because you can really breathe in San Jose. They've got a lot of space. There'll be a place where I can stay!
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 13, 2025 3:28 AM |
31. I’m a Californian who has traveled quite a lot for work (Cleveland, St Louis etc) and for fun.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 13, 2025 3:56 AM |
23 as well…actual visits
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 13, 2025 4:08 AM |
32. I'm special.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 13, 2025 4:16 AM |
20 (plus 5 where I only changed planes)
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 13, 2025 4:21 AM |
If you include driving through, all of them except Buffalo and Raleigh. 40 if you don't count ones that I just transited through.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 13, 2025 4:37 AM |
22 for sure with a vague inkling I've been to 3 others, but don't care enough to figure out when and why.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 13, 2025 4:40 AM |
[quote] If you include driving through
You should include those.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 13, 2025 4:44 AM |
25 - I lived in two of them. The rest I visited for work or on vacation road trips mostly.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 13, 2025 4:50 AM |
46 (47 if you include spending the night at an airport motel because you missed your connecting flight.)
I've been to 45 states. Still need to see MT, ID, ND, SD, and NE.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 13, 2025 4:52 AM |
OP - are you surprised so many people have been to more cities than you assumed?
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 13, 2025 4:57 AM |
[quote]47 if you include spending the night at an airport motel because you missed your connecting flight.
You can't really count it if you've only ever been in the airport which is usually far from the actual city.
I'd also not count driving through the city.
While it's clearly within the letter of the question, but fails to meet the spirit.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 13, 2025 4:57 AM |
the hall monitor has arrived at r65!
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 13, 2025 5:00 AM |
[Quote] OP - are you surprised so many people have been to more cities than you assumed?
I had said
[Quote] I’ve been to 16 but suspect some of you have been to many more than that.
So, no.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 13, 2025 5:01 AM |
I thought it was generally understood that a layover where you never leave the terminal is not the same as visiting a city. Do you find that take controversial, r66?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 13, 2025 5:03 AM |
24.
Which is more than I thought, actually. I always forget I did a ton of cross country road trips in my twenties - that knocked out a ton of these.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 13, 2025 5:04 AM |
I've been to 32 cities listed, of which 19 of them I went to a bathhouse/sex club!
Jack Cambell gave me a lifetime card for all the Club Baths. When in Rome.....
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 13, 2025 5:09 AM |
Only 9. I thought I was a well traveled bish. Guess not.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 13, 2025 5:10 AM |
If it’s within the city limits it counts. If you don’t count airports within city limits then where precisely were you during the layover? Limbostan?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 13, 2025 5:14 AM |
18 - Not too bad.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 13, 2025 5:14 AM |
*Jack Campbell
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 13, 2025 5:16 AM |
30 of them.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 13, 2025 5:21 AM |
here's the USA cities I've been to -- (some many many years ago)
Miami Cocoa Beach Ft. Lauderdale Mobile AL Brownsville TX Wilton Manors Oakland Park Gainesville Jacksonville San Juan New York City Boca Raton Jupiter Houston Flagstaff Phoenix Baton Rouge LA Dallas TX Wichita Falls, Tx Amarillo, Tx Albuquerque Los Angeles (Hollywood area, unincorporated then) San Francisco San Jose Oakland San Mateo Sonoma Valley Denver Colorado Boise ID El Paso Tallahassee Burlington VT New Orleans, LA Naples, FL Orlando, FL Omaha, NE St Louis MO Las Vegas NV Raleigh NC Washington and Lee, Shenandoah Valley Washington DC Orange Cty, CA Chicago Waco TX Atlanta Savannah Macon
I guess 16; moved around a lot ... and I am old
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 13, 2025 5:45 AM |
You're having a Minneapolis airport layover, r72. Not visiting Minneapolis. You don't really experience a city when you eat McDonald's near gate G14 in Terminal 2. Is it that hard to understand?
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 13, 2025 5:49 AM |
12, plus an additional 3 that I flew in or out of (more than just a layover) but didn’t spend more than an afternoon in.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 13, 2025 5:53 AM |
18 for me and like R6 I'm not even American. And like Canuck at R46 that number won't be changing under the current administration.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 13, 2025 5:58 AM |
24. I surprised myself. I am not much of a traveler. About 50% of it was work travel.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 13, 2025 5:59 AM |
[Quote] 18 for me and like [R6] I'm not even American.
Then why are you answering? The question was addressed to Americans, to see how we measure up against the U.S. population at large, who have only visited an average of five.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 13, 2025 6:02 AM |
^^^ should be R16 not R6
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 13, 2025 6:04 AM |
Visited 14, stopped over at or drove through 6 more.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 13, 2025 6:05 AM |
23
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 13, 2025 6:11 AM |
I've been to 20. I never had the slightest desire to visit TX, FL, or most of the south.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 13, 2025 6:12 AM |
45 at last count
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 13, 2025 6:19 AM |
I answered because I knew that it would make a silly old queen like you get in a snit, R81.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 13, 2025 6:44 AM |
28 excluding cities that I've only changed planes in. The city I was born in and the city I live in are both on the list. I don't really consider myself extremely well traveled in the US as there are a number of states that I've never been to. I've been to way more than 28 different countries.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 13, 2025 9:37 AM |
[quote]we're not all backwater rubes, you know
I've been to 26 of these cities and lived in four of them but I still feel like a backwater rube.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 13, 2025 9:58 AM |
22.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | August 13, 2025 10:06 AM |
Sure, but how many of you have been to Winnemucca?
by Anonymous | reply 91 | August 13, 2025 10:12 AM |
48. The only 2 I haven’t been to are Honolulu and Oakland, CA. I’m a flight attendant so that gives me an advantage.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | August 13, 2025 10:18 AM |
Los Angeles (Hollywood area, unincorporated then….
You must be well over a hundred years old!
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 13, 2025 10:28 AM |
R76 is both boring as a writer and uniformed as to what is a city.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 13, 2025 10:31 AM |
I lived in 5 of them. Two on the east coast and three in CA.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 13, 2025 10:32 AM |
49. Touring actor. Should have taken that job in El Paso, dammit.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 13, 2025 10:34 AM |
R55: Are you expecting a medal?
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 13, 2025 12:51 PM |
24 of these, 25 if that Portland is the original Portland of Maine.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 13, 2025 12:56 PM |
35
by Anonymous | reply 99 | August 13, 2025 12:56 PM |
R97, has been to 51 cities and currently is the Mayoress of Pettyville, a suburb of Envyopolis in the state of Tearothersdown.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | August 13, 2025 1:06 PM |
31. I'm not including airport connections or driving through. Only actual visits.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | August 13, 2025 1:16 PM |
The original Portland is in England.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 13, 2025 1:40 PM |
I’ve been to Digitopolis. Have you?
by Anonymous | reply 103 | August 13, 2025 1:41 PM |
Visited: 37 of 50
I've never set foot in Florida or Texas on principle, which strikes 8 possibilities for a better score.
I've been to 42 states and can say that not every state is a treasure trove of interesting things to see. I,'m okay with never seeing any of them again.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | August 13, 2025 1:51 PM |
[quote] I've never set foot in Florida or Texas on principle
What principle is that?
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 13, 2025 1:55 PM |
[quote]Sure, but how many of you have been to Winnemucca?
No, but I've been to Ely and Fallon, and across the state on US 50, "the loneliest road in America."
by Anonymous | reply 106 | August 13, 2025 1:56 PM |
I've been to every one of them back during my working years.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | August 13, 2025 2:02 PM |
R59 here. Need to add San Diego to the "haven't been to" list. So 3 that I've never been to, 7 that I've driven through but not really visited, and 40 that I've actually spent some amount of time in. I've also been to 49 of the 50 states (still need North Dakota).
by Anonymous | reply 108 | August 13, 2025 2:02 PM |
[quote] I still feel like a backwater rube.
Are you well scrubbed and/or hustling?
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 13, 2025 2:02 PM |
29, but four of them were in the airports only. So I guess I've experienced 25 of them. Surprised, like R1, that my hometown (Buffalo) is listed. PS: Not an invitation to the haters of Rust Belt cities.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 13, 2025 2:13 PM |
34......
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 13, 2025 2:16 PM |
14, 5 of which were just to change planes. Except for Denver, have only been to cities on the West Coast and Northeast, plus DC. Have been to 5 major cities in Canada. Have visited 33 countries. Not likely to visit any new American cities on this list as they are all in Red States.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 13, 2025 2:22 PM |
I've been in 24, and considering the experiences in some of them this is not anything to brag about.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | August 13, 2025 2:23 PM |
R105: Not soiling my shoes with shit
by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 13, 2025 2:24 PM |
I’ve only been to Memphis airport, when it was a Northwest hub, I’d like to see the city, but, you know, the New Madrid fault, I was nervous just being there for a layover.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 13, 2025 2:24 PM |
I've been to I think all of them
five? that seems like a troll thing
by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 13, 2025 2:54 PM |
I've been to 23 of them. Which surprised even me.
A few are from the area I grew up (rust belt) so those were "free spaces" on this bingo card, I guess. And I haven't been to most of the southern cities (beyond ATL and NOLA) or cities in the Plains.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | August 13, 2025 3:02 PM |
R95 Your post made me curious, went back to look and I lived in 5 of them, too.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | August 13, 2025 3:04 PM |
49. 50 if you count a drive through (for Fort Worth).
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 13, 2025 3:11 PM |
37 - where I explored the city for at least most of a day…not counting airports or just driving through/around. Weirdly I’ve never been to any of the TX cities here but have been to dreadful Amarillo.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | August 13, 2025 3:11 PM |
Not even American and 9
NY, LA, SF, SD, Washington, Philly, Miami, New Orleans and Boston.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 13, 2025 3:19 PM |
41
However, I haven't been to a few of those cities in over 30 years.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 13, 2025 3:21 PM |
R122 that’s not a big deal.
I’m not Spanish but I’ve been to more than 9 cities in Spain. And Italy. And France. Etc.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | August 13, 2025 3:25 PM |
21. Many of them I have no desire to go to.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | August 13, 2025 3:29 PM |
21 and I am Canadian.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | August 13, 2025 3:31 PM |
Forty eight. All but the two “apolis” cities: Minneapolis which I’d like to see and Indianapolis which I wouldn’t.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | August 13, 2025 3:36 PM |
You should visit Digitopolis and Dictionopolis! You’d love them.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | August 13, 2025 3:45 PM |
Have any of you been to Mediapolis, Iowa home of Datalounge?
by Anonymous | reply 129 | August 13, 2025 3:57 PM |
I've spent significant time in twelve and lived and worked in three of them.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | August 13, 2025 4:04 PM |
I’ve been to 24. Many for work, which was nice because some of them I would never have gone to for on vacation.
The only one on this list that I’ve been to and would never visit again was Phoenix. I couldn’t wait to get out of there.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | August 13, 2025 4:05 PM |
Live in Pittsburgh, have been to Washington, NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, Tucson, New Orleans, San Francisco, Chicago
by Anonymous | reply 132 | August 13, 2025 4:09 PM |
[quote]Have any of you been to Mediapolis, Iowa home of Datalounge?
The whole town stinks like Cheryl's pussy.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | August 13, 2025 4:12 PM |
Do we do countries next?
by Anonymous | reply 134 | August 13, 2025 4:12 PM |
We should, R134.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | August 13, 2025 4:13 PM |
R123 - 41 but I've stayed over night in 39 of them. Many of them for work travel.
I have not made it to Columbus, Raleigh, Kansas City, Buffalo, Tucson, El Paso, or Oakland - and I think I never will.
It's kind of a strange list - are these the top 50 largest cities or top 50 largest metros? Where is Orlando, Richmond, Virginia Beach, Providence, Salt Lake City?
I also hate when they separate cities that are in the same metro - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Dallas/Ft. Worth - but even Long Beach and Riverside are removed from LA sometimes. Or SF/Oakland. Phoenix/Mesa. C'mon - it's culturally and widely known to be a part of one larger metro.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | August 13, 2025 4:34 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 137 | August 13, 2025 4:38 PM |
[Quote] I answered because I knew that it would make a silly old queen like you get in a snit, [R81].
No, you answered because you’re a black hole of need, and can’t be left out of any convo. 🤷🏻♂️
by Anonymous | reply 138 | August 13, 2025 4:38 PM |
R127 So you have NOT been to Minneapolis, but you HAVE been to St. Paul?
(Just curious.....I thought you have to go through Minneapolis to get to St. Paul in many cases.)
by Anonymous | reply 139 | August 13, 2025 4:40 PM |
20
by Anonymous | reply 140 | August 13, 2025 4:41 PM |
30
by Anonymous | reply 141 | August 13, 2025 4:50 PM |
14 - and was shocked it was that many.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | August 13, 2025 4:52 PM |
R143 = Jodie Foster
by Anonymous | reply 144 | August 13, 2025 5:06 PM |
Buffalo and suburbs in quite beautiful. Very lush and green during the summer, the Autumn there can't be beat, lots of great architecture in the city (small though it may be). Great food, many interesting places to visit.
However, very Red area. That part isn't pleasant.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | August 13, 2025 5:13 PM |
I've traveled embarrassingly little outside the US. I've been to Canada, England, and the Bahamas.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | August 13, 2025 5:22 PM |
R146 - but that's the equivalent of a European who has never traveled outside of Europe. The US is so big and with so many varied climates for vacation.
Many Europeans have gone to other countries in Europe because they are so close - and many of those tourists go because of the sun and warm weather, not because of some cultural enrichment.
I don't think it's anything to be ashamed about - but so much of the world wants to talk about how few Americans have ever left the US as it is some proof of ignorance. Yes, we have a lot of ignorant citizens - but that's not necessarily THE reason for it.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | August 13, 2025 5:30 PM |
Oh, dear (to myself).
Meant to say "Buffalo and suburbs IS quite beautiful."
by Anonymous | reply 148 | August 13, 2025 5:32 PM |
40 for me
I seem to recall that Minneapolis and St. Paul are not adjacent as stated above. Fort Worth was to visit the Kimbell Museum (anyone else here familiar with Sister Wendy?).
You cannot say you've "been" there without leaving the airport. Transited Cincinnati, but I haven't been to KY.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | August 13, 2025 5:37 PM |
R149 - no they're not adjacent, but they are 10 miles apart.
I just don't think culturally these twin cities or any 2 large city groupings within a metro are that different. It's weird - like the smaller city wants its own recognition and identity from the larger one.
Feels like a stupid pissing contest between siblings with the smaller one always been overly sensitive and bratty for attention.
If these weren't relatively new cities (within past 100-150 years), they would have been combined into one at some point. Feels like a uniquely American thing.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | August 13, 2025 5:49 PM |
I've been to 20 of them.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | August 13, 2025 6:02 PM |
I've been to all of the following outside of the US. Some have a (*) because I've been to them both before and after reunification or before and after they separated. Some of the places I only spent a week or two and some I've spent months or years. Many I have been to multiple times. Although I am an American, I have not been to that many states.
Greece, Yugoslavia (*Croatia, *Bosnia & Herzegovina, *Serbia, *Slovenia), Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Kenya, United Kingdom, France, Monaco, Spain, Portugal, West Germany, East Germany, (*Germany), Switzerland, Czechoslovakia (*Czech Republic, *Slovakia) Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Türkiye, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Canada, Mexico.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | August 13, 2025 6:17 PM |
Every single one of them. I toured a lot.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | August 13, 2025 6:17 PM |
Correct, r147. Also, traveling to European countries from the US costs much more than traveling within European countries. A Briton going to visit Spain or France is spending a fraction of the money it would cost an American, for example.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | August 13, 2025 6:20 PM |
18. I’ve travelled more outside of the US even though I live in CA.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | August 13, 2025 6:24 PM |
Oakland is NOT SF (Bay Area, yes only).
by Anonymous | reply 156 | August 13, 2025 6:24 PM |
R150--can you read a map? They are next to each other.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | August 13, 2025 6:25 PM |
R146 no offense, but there’s a white skin troll about. Watch out!
by Anonymous | reply 158 | August 13, 2025 6:25 PM |
I've been to 24.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | August 13, 2025 6:31 PM |
I guess I should say that even though I've been to 24 of the cities on that list, I didn't spend any significant amount of time in several of them in the Midwest, just passing through them on road trips.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | August 13, 2025 6:33 PM |
R157 - yes, but the downtown areas - the city part - are 10 miles apart. Nobody cares if one subdivision you're in Minneapolis and then 2 blocks over the other subdivision is in St. Paul.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | August 13, 2025 6:34 PM |
I do seem to have touched a nerve, haven't I, OP / R138? There are a couple of replies earlier up thread from people also not from the USA but it's only mine that you pounced on. Was it because I've seen more cities in the USA than you (so ridiculous)? Or the implied criticism of your Head of State which, again, I wasn't the first to raise?
You created the thread but you can't control who replies and in which direction it goes. Interestingly people are now getting into a pissing competition about how many other countries they've been to when you specifically stated American cities but I don't see you having a queeny tantrum about that!
Keep smiling. Or your approximation thereof.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | August 13, 2025 6:35 PM |
Years ago when I lived in San Francisco, my then-bf and I accidentally ended up in Oakland one night (long story). We thought were weren't going to make it out. Never set foot in Oakland again.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | August 13, 2025 6:44 PM |
[quote] We thought were weren't going to make it out. Never set foot in Oakland again.
That sounds terrifying. It would be like parachuting into Beirut or Mogadishu.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | August 13, 2025 6:48 PM |
32 for me!
by Anonymous | reply 165 | August 13, 2025 6:50 PM |
That’s where the train stopped, R139.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | August 13, 2025 6:51 PM |
[quote] The US is so big and with so many varied climates for vacation.
There’s also variability within a metro area. For example, Chicago and its suburbs. You could have different experiences just traveling around that area.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | August 13, 2025 6:57 PM |
R163 that’s a bridge too far. Accidently?!
And I don’t believe you were in terror. Oakland was and is perfectly fine. No need to do a Tom Wolfe move here.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | August 13, 2025 7:01 PM |
r168 I was there and you weren't. Believe me, it was scary. We were not in the nice part of Oakland.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | August 13, 2025 7:03 PM |
Whoops, I'm r163 at r168.
Oakland, however, was not as scary as when me and my then-bf got lost in Newark at 11:00 at night a few years earlier and drove around for over an hour before we figured out where we were going. This was before GPS and Smartphones.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | August 13, 2025 7:04 PM |
A friend of mine just got a job in Oakland, he's a tail gunner on a school bus.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | August 13, 2025 7:06 PM |
[quote](Just curious.....I thought you have to go through Minneapolis to get to St. Paul in many cases.)
You have to know the right people.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | August 13, 2025 7:09 PM |
26. Why do ask, OP?
by Anonymous | reply 173 | August 13, 2025 7:13 PM |
Countries:
NORTH AMERICA: US, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Trinidad-Tobago. Non-country: Aruba
SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile
EUROPE: UK, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Vatican City
ASIA: Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Thailand, Taiwan, China, Japan
AFRICA: Egypt, Kenya
by Anonymous | reply 174 | August 13, 2025 7:15 PM |
I knew I'd forget something. Add Italy and Vatican City to my list, too.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | August 13, 2025 7:19 PM |
Cities! USA!
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
by Anonymous | reply 176 | August 13, 2025 7:20 PM |
I've never been inside St. Paul but he's been inside me.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | August 13, 2025 8:24 PM |
London, Taursus or Minnesota? All three?
by Anonymous | reply 178 | August 13, 2025 8:26 PM |
R177 - that's why we call you the St. Pauli girl at the bar.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | August 13, 2025 11:07 PM |
31 not counting airports
by Anonymous | reply 180 | August 13, 2025 11:13 PM |
34 and I have lived in 3.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | August 13, 2025 11:17 PM |
31 and I have never been to anywhere in Texas!
by Anonymous | reply 182 | August 13, 2025 11:36 PM |
I'm almost 50 and I've traveled all over the US but I've never set foot in Texas, not even a layover in an airport.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | August 13, 2025 11:37 PM |
I did have a layover or two in Houston and Dallas.... but I never count layovers in these sorts of things.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | August 14, 2025 12:12 AM |
R183 - that's impressive to not even have a layover, considering the connection hub that is DFW.
Yeah - I don't count being in an airport or even driving through a city going somewhere else as actually being in a city.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | August 14, 2025 12:20 AM |
r185 I've somehow managed to avoid a layover in Texas. I've also never been to Arkansas or Oklahoma but I have been to Louisiana and New Mexico.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | August 14, 2025 12:25 AM |
[Quote] I do seem to have touched a nerve, haven't I, OP / [R138]?
Love when people stick their snout in where it doesn’t belong because they don’t want to get left out, and when called on it posture like it was some kind of masterful piss take.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | August 14, 2025 1:41 AM |
R91 I had the best girl in Winnemucca!
by Anonymous | reply 188 | August 14, 2025 4:08 AM |
I went to Albuquerque but my car didn’t get stolen.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | August 14, 2025 4:12 AM |
A mere 26 not counting possessions or territories.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | August 14, 2025 4:21 AM |
Wrong thread.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | August 14, 2025 4:25 AM |
I flew home from PR via DFW on American. It was the early 2000s. For some reason, we had to go through security -- it was like Customs, even though Puerto Rico is part of the US. A fat good ole boy agent noticed that my partner and I had the same address and were continuing home to San Francisco. He went on about how much we must have enjoyed the purdy little ladies of Puerto Rico and insisted that we were brothers, despite our different surnames. We had a 4-hour layover. Went to a bar and grill. Of course, it was Tex-Mex BBQ. Big, greasy food. Obnoxious music. Our obviously gay waiter seemed uncomfortable spending time at our table. He was cute. So we kept asking him questions about the menu, Texas, anything. It wasn't busy. That was enough of Texas for me forever.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | August 14, 2025 4:25 AM |
I love Southern California and wish we'd annex a tiny part of LA or Orange County, or that county with the reactor power. 5 cents per kilowatt hour fucking rules! BC Hydro charges twice that for residential Tier 1 usage.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | August 14, 2025 4:35 AM |
There’s no such thing as Calif Edison (it’s SoCal Edison). LA city has a separate power system: the DWP. The only nuclear plant is in SLO County and does not supply power south of Bakersfield.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | August 14, 2025 6:43 AM |
The "stamps her foot!" need not be stated.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | August 14, 2025 9:01 AM |
I suspect R192 is completely made up. At DFW you never have to leave the secured side even if you have to go from one terminal to the other. And a flight from PR would not have to go through customs.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | August 14, 2025 2:00 PM |
One city that's not on the list but one where I've had a great time the three times I've visited is Salt Lake City, believe it or not. I was shocked at how many gay people live there.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | August 14, 2025 2:05 PM |
Mormon pron—look it up!
by Anonymous | reply 198 | August 14, 2025 2:13 PM |
R197, I've read that the entire city council is LGBT. Amazing.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | August 14, 2025 2:42 PM |
r196, it's completely true. We landed, took a long ride on The TrAAAAin thing, then ended up in another terminal where we had to deal with Bubba. On the way to PR, the flight was SF-Miami, where we literally had 5 minutes to run to the flight to PR. We made it (without having to go through security) but our luggage didn't. I can say that I've spent 5 minutes in Florida. Note: While approaching Miami, the water looked beautiful -turquoise. Thought I'd want to visit someday, but Florida became more Florida-like over the years.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | August 14, 2025 2:51 PM |
13, but the Ohio ones just driving through
by Anonymous | reply 201 | August 14, 2025 2:56 PM |
30 for me. But I've been everywhere from Zanzibar to Barkley Square.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | August 14, 2025 2:56 PM |
Duh— that’s Berkeley Square. Are you joking?
It’s pronounced like Barkley in the British Isles, but the city and university are pronounced in the standard American way.
All are named after an Irish philosopher.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | August 14, 2025 3:06 PM |
What is the minimum amount of time spent there required to qualify? Because my physical body has been in all 50.
I've spent at least one night and had at least one meal in every one of these cities, but that's due to the fact that when I was younger, I would go on frequent road trips. Usually there would be some sight seeing included in the planning as well.
If the minimum time required is something longer, like a week, then I've spent at least a week's worth of time in 29 of the 50.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | August 14, 2025 3:08 PM |
At least one erect penis must have been involved to qualify.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | August 14, 2025 3:12 PM |
Correction —the square is named after a duke with same surname. Otherwise see my post as is.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | August 14, 2025 3:26 PM |
R204: Not to speak for anyone else, but I considered the minimum time in a city more than changing planes at at airport, more than passing through by train or car. Those would all seem to meet "been to," but you might as well count cities that you flew over if your only experience is the airport or a generic stretch interstate.
For me, you have to be there long enough to see some landmark, or distinctive architecture, or take away some observation, even if it's about how from the highway the city suddenly emerges as an impressive display of skyscrapers and bridges, or that it's a ugly city with a beautiful ring of parks. Even if it's a common observation, it indicates you were there long enough to see something particular to the city. If there's nothing particular to see, it takes longer to confirming that "it's like Bismark, ND, less the mediocre capital building that looks like a veterans' hospital."
Could take barely an hour if you covered the right path, or could take a couple days to have some rough but informed idea.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | August 14, 2025 11:52 PM |
[quote]I considered the minimum time in a city more than changing planes at at airport, more than passing through by train or car.
Considering we have a drive-thru culture, I’m okay with seeing and counting a city that you only viewed through the window of a vehicle, if it’s a list of places a person has been. However, if it’s a list of places you have experienced, then a person would have had to get out of the car and interact with the locals in some way.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | August 15, 2025 12:05 AM |
24, technically 27 including airport layovers and driving through without stopping.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | August 15, 2025 12:42 AM |
[quote]Cathy Duke
Your last name is LANE, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | August 15, 2025 12:53 AM |
23.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | August 15, 2025 12:59 AM |
How many have we lived in? As another Canadian I can only claim Boston, which I loved.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | August 15, 2025 1:00 AM |
Lived in? NYC for 35 years (33 in Chelsea), 3 in Pittsburgh.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | August 15, 2025 1:27 AM |
I never counted places where I changed planes, so it took a while to officially visit Minnesota, but I got to Denver, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Atlanta, DC, NYC, Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and even Charlotte long before changing planes in any of them.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | August 15, 2025 1:45 AM |
In how many of the cities have people here visited the art museum? I count 12 for me, but in doing so it reminds that there are some cities that it’s ridiculous that I haven’t been to the art museum yet. That includes Detroit and Philadelphia. When I have been in Philly, it was for business and I only have seen the sights in the city center.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | August 15, 2025 2:02 AM |
[quote] When I have been in Philly, it was for business and I only have seen the sights in the city center.
Center City!
by Anonymous | reply 216 | August 15, 2025 2:04 AM |
Fuck off r16.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | August 15, 2025 2:07 AM |
15 cities' art museums (in some cases more than one). Columbus' is horrible. Detroit's is overrated, although the murals are nice. The museums in Philly are close to Center City, no excuse for missing one of the small ones, at least.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | August 15, 2025 2:12 AM |
I try to visit the local art museum whenever I spend time in a city. Last year, for example,I went to Tampa’s. It wasn’t much, but it was something. West Palm Beach isn’t listed in the cities, but the Norton Museum of Art is an art museum you don’t hear much about, but it has a pretty good collection.
Next year I’ll be in Seattle for the first time (to embark on a cruise), but I’ve looked at what the art museum has in its collection and I plan to skip that one. I didn’t see anything of interest. I’ve seen enough art from the Pacific Northwest Indians at the Vancouver art museum.
It helps to have a museum membership at a tier that has an extensive list of reciprocal museums.
by Anonymous | reply 219 | August 15, 2025 2:23 AM |
Yep, another Datalounge pissing contest.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | August 15, 2025 2:34 AM |
I believe R192 - and the characters you see in DFW are a mixed bag - a lot of domestic transfers, but then you've got those Texan natives. The fucking cowboy boots and the bubbas and the staring at other people.
I hate Texas - I know there are some good people that live there and some smart, educated populations - but they have the highest percentage of assholes of almost any state.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | August 15, 2025 2:43 AM |
21.
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