first time in the USA where should I go ?

[Hay Dude]

I always have to laugh when I think of Camden.

No matter where I've traveled in my life, I never felt as scared as taking the wrong bridge in Philly and ended up in Camden after midnight.

Reality is just as you can be on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere and see dilapidated homes / mobile homes with rusted cars and a non working 10' TV dish, you can always-* see the squalor of any large city. General rule of thumb is people will always be people.

Just always remember "There but for the Grace of God go I" as pretty much most people on this forum can have the luxury of traveling where and when they want.

For now.
Forced EV’s may curtail that “range of travel” a bit.

 

[Sigarms]

Check it out, because I don’t believe you need a passport to cross between Canada and the US as long as you have proper ID.

When we were at Niagara Falls, we were told you needed a passport.

When I visited a old friend in Oneida (east of Syracuse) on our trip there, he told me the same thing.

Looking it up online, end of the day, the person who is right is the person in authority you're dealing with at the border. Exactly what is proper ID other than a drivers license and perhaps a social security card?

 

[kenmbz]

Did you know the once great city of Camden used to be home to the New York Ship Building Company that employed 30,000 people? The first nuclear powered commercial passenger ship was built there. RCA employed 12,000 people.
All gone.

All of these failed-leadership cities follow the same pattern.

1. Local G_______t provides incentives for companies to locate there.
2. Companies are demonized for unfair employee treatment by local media and some workers.
3. Local media and citizens elect more “worker friendly” governments. Workers strike and unionize.
4. Companies close up and leave for more labor friendly areas (right to work states, for example)
5. Urban decay from loss of tax base (Camden, NJ perfect example)

6. Repeat steps 1-5.

You forgot all the tax incentives given to local politicians to build complexes and businesses, who took the incentives and never built anything.
I did work for Suburu and American Water and they got huge incentives, but their location does not integrate at all with the local population.
Even the hospital in the area has a private secured entrance from the parking garage, so you don't have to walk outside and get mugged every time.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Don’t forget to check out Baltimore or North Philly. lol

Visit Portland, Oregon for a slice of the real America...lol

there is a show i’ve watch with Hugo Girard (he is canadian retired world strongest man he had a well decorated career on the world stage) he has a show “at the peril of your own risk” he goes in the worst neighborhood of the worse cities all over the state and in Europe it was a eye open for me wow it’s crazy …

 

[Sigarms]

You forgot all the tax incentives given to local politicians to build complexes and businesses, who took the incentives and never built anything.

Is that any different on selling the lottery to the state under the disguise of having all proceeds go to the school systems?

 

[Rockbadchild]

Check it out, because I don’t believe you need a passport to cross between Canada and the US as long as you have proper ID.

yes you need a passport …

 

[Sigarms]

yes you need a passport …

I use to live up around Watertown NY. Short drive up 81 and we use to go into Canada all the time to paddle some good rivers. Never needed a passport, and no one ever counted how many boats were going in and then coming back LOL Same thing kayaking in NY when we'd come across Canadians on the river in the US.

Why I fell over dead when I found out last year that we needed a passport to visit the Canadian side of Niagara falls.

 

[two_bit_score]

What are we thinking!? This is a tractor site. The recommendations should be to tour all of the best dealerships on the US. (or at least the most 'famous').

Just to start the list in no particular order:
LSE (2 stores in Nashville area)
Messicks (Elizabeth town, PA)

Who has more suggestions?

I recommend Home Chad Little Outdoor Power Equipment

I have the cap to prove it!

 

[Rockbadchild]

I use to live up around Watertown NY. Short drive up 81 and we use to go into Canada all the time to paddle some good rivers. Never needed a passport, and no one ever counted how many boats were going in and then coming back LOL Same thing kayaking in NY when we'd come across Canadians on the river in the US.

Why I fell over dead when I found out last year that we needed a passport to visit the Canadian side of Niagara falls.

for us i believe it’s more to come back then to go … and yes you are right they say you need it but you might never need it until the time you get ask to go in the inspection area

 

[MossRoad]

Hasn't that been required since the mid 2000's?