The 5 Things I learned from traveling through America

Shounak Bagchi
4 min readDec 19, 2018
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Two years ago I quit my job as a financial analyst and took up a few gigs (one as a journalist and another as a market researcher) that allowed me to roam around America. Since 2016, I’ve been to thirty states, spoken with over 200 local politicians, and interviewed nearly 2,000 average citizens. Here’s my take away from my time on the road.

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Shounak Bagchi

Founder of Honest Wednesdays and pragmatic optimist.