• khepri@lemmy.world
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    A passport is a really good thing to have, and lasts much longer than a Real ID state license. It ends up costing like $13/yr and it opens up the whole world to you. It blows my mind that on;y 50% of US citizens ever bother getting one.

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      Well over half of us live paycheck to paycheck and traveling is exorbitantly expensive. Especially international travel.

      It sucks being broke.

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        Ding ding ding- the commenter your replying to must not be poor to think buying something you cannot use is a good idea 😂😭

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        Travel can be done cheap. Don’t go to the exorbitantly expensive shitty fake ass resort where you get food poisoning.

        Go be real, in the real world.

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      My real ID is 8 years versus my passport’s 10. And cheaper, less hassle to renew, and more convenient to carry. But I do have both.

      My state also hasn’t offered non-real IDs in several years.

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      It costs 165 bucks per person or almost $700 for a family of 4. Then they need $3000-$5000 to travel round trip once to a destination in Europe.

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      As a passport holder myself, that was my plan. This article has me wondering if we’d still be charged the fee. TSA is notoriously stupidly incompetent, and I wouldn’t put it past this system to be giving kickbacks to agents.

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        idk, not by the letter of the law, no. But they are they are pretty awful sometimes. I personally always used my passport for all flights even before REAL ID existed, it’s just easier for them than offering a license from a rural state like I live in that they may see once or twice a day.