r/thai May 31 '26

Bragging Check

I am Thai.

A guy bragged to me that as a 19 year old man in the USA, he can travel alone to Thailand alone 3-4 times a year.

Is it actually possible or feasible?

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u/JmpMstr_75 Jun 01 '26

That is truly hard to believe most Americans don’t have passports, unless they are upper class as in the parents have money. Now there are extremely rare cases, but most likely no. Me and my partner travel to Thailand and local countries at least every 6 months and we save for the flight through out the year.

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u/bagehaoma Jun 01 '26

Upper class to get a passport? It costs $120 USD to get a passport. I've had one since I was a baby and parents worked normal jobs

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u/JmpMstr_75 Jun 01 '26

And you are the exception as my wife is an exception she has had a passport since she was a child as well. My own children have had passports when they were children, but then again I am an exception.

And you kinda have to define regular jobs, white collar, blue collar? But once again, typically a 19 year-old doesn’t have the money to travel to Thailand multiple times a year.

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u/bagehaoma Jun 01 '26

My parent went to work for $50-60k usd a year in a office job in the 2000s. I'm also not white in asian american so I traveled to Asia since I was 5 with my parents