Disposable income and ability to take time away from work without pay? (And I suppose the desire to)
I get paid vacation.
Why should I go without?- A german citizen.
Yes, and I have. I’ve historically chosen places where I had a human connection. Someone to show me around and introduce me to the place.
Don’t currently have that 💁♂️
No.
ability to take time away from work without pay
Tell me you’re a US American without telling me that you’re a US American
looks at half of the world
yeah… about that…
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no it’s not. Micronesia also don’t have paid leave
The fact that Americans keep voting for representatives that do nothing about that is incredible to me. Which countries don’t have vacation days by law? Even China that is known for not caring about labour laws at least have A law that gives people 5 vacation days. USA? None
Yes.
But that’s because I work for the airlines.
No.
I can’t even afford a bus ticket and I haven’t been on a plane since before 9/11/2001.
The last travel I did was three years ago when we took my elderly dog to the beach one last time, and that was only about an hour and a half drive. It was a purposefully special occasion to get him to the beach one last time. Honestly, I’d probably trade never traveling again just to have him back. Miss you, Jack.
Yes, and at least some motivation. However I’m still getting used to being single and it’s hard to motivate myself to travel when I don’t have someone to travel with.
Yes.
Is it in any way financially responsible?
Absolutely not.
You say that as if “travel regularly” was ever a thing we could do, lol.
I used to travel when I could, maybe once every couple years. I haven’t made any long travels in a while, though. I have new expenses now that are digging into my savings, and don’t know when I’d get the chance to travel again. Rent is putting me on the razor’s edge here.
I like to travel to some interesting City and then find the one coffee shop and sit in there everyday and do nothing but work
Yes.
I haven’t flown in four years. Even longer since I flew for a vacation.
Me and the Mrs work remote. We have 25 days of PTO each, but often extend our vacations as workations. We have two dogs to bring along, hence we avoid flying.
We had a sailboat that we’d spend four months of the year on. Hitting four different countries in one season.
We now have a toddler that takes too much time and focus for sailing, so we’ve traded the sailboat for a caravan/travel trailer. We’ve only had it one season, but did about 4000km. Spent nights in 9 different towns.
They say vacationing with kids is just parenting without the home field advantage. Towing your vacation home evens the advantage out a bit, at least.
If I chose to afford it I supposed I do.
I can. It’s not the most financially responsible decision. I’m supposed to be budgeting carefully to stretch my savings for the next 3 years.
I have 6 weeks off work with pay. 5 weeks is the minimum here though.
I just don’t have the desire to travel so I just spend time at home doing stuff that I feel needs doing, and chill
Sure. Living in Germany I fly at least once a year to a not so far destination for vacation. Mostly flights with a duration around the 2 hour mark within Europe that cost around 400 Euros (flight home being included)
Since I’m in Bavaria I can hop into my car and be in Austria or northern Italy in a few hours. I could take the bus to Prague or a train to Paris and have done all that in the past. (Although not quite as often as I want to)
Trips to other cities within Germany by train are even easier and cheaper thanks to the Germany Train ticket. Most expensive is often the accommodation.
However I wasn’t outside of Europe for quite some time and I‘d have to save up for quite some time if would want to go to another continent.
