Would you visit USA in the current climate?

Speaking of world cup the financial times has a piece today about hotels in the US venue cities dropping their price by a third as bookings are slack.

It didn't mention bookings for the Canadian and Mexican venues, so hard to draw conclusions other than they maybe pitched initial prices too high.

Interesting, long term trend is more west > east.

I hope they're the smart ones.

New Orleans is the greatest place on earth

And lots of Irish. And Caribbean. And African. And Spanish. And Italian.

Also one of the few places in America you can booze on the streets.

According to that graph I posted hereditary passports were still only one fifth of the total, or depending on how the graph was made that 20K may be separate to and not part of the 100K who qualified.

Italy had been one of the easier passports to procure via bloodline but that changed last year to be more like ours in that it stops at a UK/Irish grandparent born on the island.

I would imagine we're mostly getting motivated individuals, including a relative who made sure that her grandson got his Irish passport so she'd bring him back to Ireland if Trump brought in the draft again.

Lot's of tourists are thinking that, - however I don't know if things really get better. Everyone is hoping. At least in the ROI one has US-pre-clearance immigration and that eases things a lot.

Trump or not, political polarizing views and issues will probably remain. It's more a dis-united states these days but as a tourist it's easier to stay out of these issues.

Food and travel would still be awesome there.

When was the last time you were there? All my US relatives are citing massive price increases in everything, and now driving has gotten expensive too which is hard to avoid as a tourist considering outside of NY/Boston how little good public transport options there are.

One told me recently that her full cover car insurance on a Corolla in Florida is now around $300 a month!!! I think my last fully comp renewal was around €500/$580 for the year and I was lazy in not having shopped around!

I'd make sure to fully price in rental car insurance if I were heading over.

Yup

That pic reminds me a lot of the red/white/blue paraphernalia all around the glorious 12th, although it's calmed down a lot since the garvaghy road standoff.

I haven't been there ever since the pandemic and I don't think I'd ever be going there in the near future. There are too strong differences of opinion around Trump, and if too costly it wouldn't interest me anyway. This is regardless if Ireland offers immigration pre-clearance. I don't fancy a police style interview and suggestive accusations of wanting to work there illegally.

If North America, I'd rather fly to Canada. Also more personal reasons to travel to Canada. Apart from that, lot's of other countries to visit.

Renting a car has gotten endlessly expensive also in Canada. Used to get deals for $25 per day for two weeks, back in the days, insurance on top it has to be said…. But that was quite some time ago.

what statistical studies would reveal this fact?

I'd say the existence of reverse migration is a sign that politics is very much so at play.