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The US is a wealthy country. The GDP per
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capita here is between 50% and 80%
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higher than similar European countries,
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you know, France or Germany or the UK.
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Their GDP per capita is 2/3 what ours
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is, or even less in some cases. And then
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there are the less wealthy countries,
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Brazil and Argentina, etc. And so for
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those travelers who've come here, the US
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is a very expensive place. They're going
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to find it expensive because it is
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expensive compared to what they're used
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to because of the wealth that's been
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generated in the US. But in addition,
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the public transit systems are not the
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same. So for particularly Europeans who
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come here or the Asians who come here,
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they're used to transit systems that
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function at a very high level, carry
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large volumes of people, and are very
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efficient. The US, some cities like New
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York have pretty good transit systems,
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excellent transit systems. Other cities
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less excellent, less coverage, and and
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less efficient. And so international
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travelers are going to find that to be a
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bit of a a surprise. And uh the expense
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and the convenience of getting around
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will probably be a bit of a barrier for
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them. It'll be a bit of a shock.
