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Travelling is such an important way for people to grow, but it's so hard to appreciate its value without actually doing it. It's shocking how many people have o

Travelling is such an important way for people to grow, but it's so hard to appreciate its value without actually doing it. It's shocking how many people have only left their state to visit Disney Land.

nradov 10y ago
Travel is great, but it's an expensive luxury especially for families with multiple children. Sometimes that one trip to Disneyland is all they can afford.
- jacobolus 10y ago
  Even poor families with multiple children can manage to travel on a limited budget, if they really want to. The bigger impediment is profound lack of interest/curiosity about other places. Take George W. Bush as an example; he certainly didn’t lack for resources. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/102900a.html http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/102900a.html
  - ashark 10y ago
    > Even poor families with multiple children can manage to travel on a limited budget, if they really want to. You mean with all that paid vacation time they don't have, after using all 5-10 days of it (if there's any at all) to stay home with sick kids, or holding it in reserve to do same later in the year? Hell, that's a problem for most families period, poor or not. Vacation time is very scarce for most people and will continue to be until some significant minimum is required by law.
    - jacobolus 10y ago
      Sorry, that was inelegantly stated. Obviously there are folks having a hard time just getting by, and taking long vacations to jet around the world for months at a time is infeasible. I’m not suggesting that anyone struggling to survive should prioritize travel over eating. But I know plenty of people who grew up in dirt poor families who managed to take occasional long road trips in their childhood. And I know people who grew up in extremely wealthy families who barely ever left their hometown. My point was just that means aren’t everything; attitude is also important.
      - ashark 10y ago
        OK, cool, point makes sense. Just wanted to make sure no one was blaming a large portion of the country for having effectively zero actual vacation time, whatever their attitude toward travel might be.
TurboHaskal 10y ago
There's travel and "travel". My SO and I visited Thailand way before we met each other. I went to a Muay Thai camp and stayed in a nearby town. SO went with a tour guide, slept and ate in hotels, visited some temples and rode cute elephants. My impression of the country is totally different from SO's. I could say the same about India and Morocco. I definitely grew, but not in the way I expected. Westerners often fall into the trap of multiculturalism and this romantic idea of travelling which feels more like a product. We simply cannot grasp how easy we have it.
douche 10y ago
Travel is a luxury. My mother taught in a school district in Maine once, where occasionally, her students would talk about "taking a trip down to the big city". They were talking about Skowhegan, a place with about 8500 people and a WalMart.
refurb 10y ago
Wow. This is a really ignorant comment. Maybe some people in the US can't afford to travel?

nradov 10y ago

Travel is great, but it's an expensive luxury especially for families with multiple children. Sometimes that one trip to Disneyland is all they can afford.

jacobolus 10y ago
Even poor families with multiple children can manage to travel on a limited budget, if they really want to. The bigger impediment is profound lack of interest/curiosity about other places. Take George W. Bush as an example; he certainly didn’t lack for resources. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/102900a.html http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/102900a.html
- ashark 10y ago
  > Even poor families with multiple children can manage to travel on a limited budget, if they really want to. You mean with all that paid vacation time they don't have, after using all 5-10 days of it (if there's any at all) to stay home with sick kids, or holding it in reserve to do same later in the year? Hell, that's a problem for most families period, poor or not. Vacation time is very scarce for most people and will continue to be until some significant minimum is required by law.
  - jacobolus 10y ago
    Sorry, that was inelegantly stated. Obviously there are folks having a hard time just getting by, and taking long vacations to jet around the world for months at a time is infeasible. I’m not suggesting that anyone struggling to survive should prioritize travel over eating. But I know plenty of people who grew up in dirt poor families who managed to take occasional long road trips in their childhood. And I know people who grew up in extremely wealthy families who barely ever left their hometown. My point was just that means aren’t everything; attitude is also important.
    - ashark 10y ago
      OK, cool, point makes sense. Just wanted to make sure no one was blaming a large portion of the country for having effectively zero actual vacation time, whatever their attitude toward travel might be.

TurboHaskal 10y ago

There's travel and "travel". My SO and I visited Thailand way before we met each other. I went to a Muay Thai camp and stayed in a nearby town. SO went with a tour guide, slept and ate in hotels, visited some temples and rode cute elephants. My impression of the country is totally different from SO's. I could say the same about India and Morocco. I definitely grew, but not in the way I expected. Westerners often fall into the trap of multiculturalism and this romantic idea of travelling which feels more like a product. We simply cannot grasp how easy we have it.

douche 10y ago

Travel is a luxury. My mother taught in a school district in Maine once, where occasionally, her students would talk about "taking a trip down to the big city". They were talking about Skowhegan, a place with about 8500 people and a WalMart.

refurb 10y ago

Wow. This is a really ignorant comment. Maybe some people in the US can't afford to travel?