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> 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 do
by 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 agoSorry, 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 agoOK, 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.