When wanting to exit our solar system, do we have to always go outward from the sun in the direction of the other planets? Or can we simply travel “north”?

Question

When wanting to exit our solar system, do we have to always go outward from the sun in the direction of the other planets? Or can we simply travel “north”?

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We can. We have done something similar with a probe around sun where it travelled on the perpendicular axis. Problem is, things are very far away that way, so there’s little practical reason with what we have