Disposable income and ability to take time away from work without pay? (And I suppose the desire to)
If I chose to afford it I supposed I do.
Yes.
But that’s because I work for the airlines.
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, 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.
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 suppose I could start running across the US ala Forest Gump 🤔
I could but I chose not to visit my family back in the home country this year as I need to make my severance pay last for I don’t know how much longer.
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.
Travel how? I can get on a bus or train and head into NYC or Philadelphia any time I want. If I wasn’t engaged and totally in love, I could head off to Boston or Baltimore any weekend. That’s travel, but just a longer version of my old commute.
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
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
looks at half of the world
yeah… about that…
(US isn’t alone lol)
no it’s not. Micronesia also don’t have paid leave
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Not unless I want to pull another personal loan out and be paying that off for multiple years just to say I went to a place not home or not in my country.
Yes.
Is it in any way financially responsible?
Absolutely not.
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.
The only real limiting factor is my family - If headed somewhere that isn’t work related, it would only make sense that they come with me, which increases cost, so driving only.
As for flights, sure, if it’s only me. I’ve accumulated enough points with most airlines to upgrade my seating to something really nice for free.
All but the desire to do so.
