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I found this quote quite amusing from your article: > I moved from staying in AirBnB’s to hostels and learned so much from travelers living outside of our mone

I found this quote quite amusing from your article: > I moved from staying in AirBnB’s to hostels and learned so much from travelers living outside of our money-culture I generally prefer to stay in hostels, and even lived in one in Wellington for a year. I find it strange to be descried as "living outside money-culture". I guess a lot of people in the working holiday/backpacker community are though; working to live, rather than living to work.

tylerlastovich 9y ago
A year in a hostel is impressive! In NZ it blew my mind how many people lived very happy lives yet almost never mentioned money, career trajectories, and to a large extent–the internet. I found this really refreshing as I had never been exposed to that kind of thinking before, the polar opposite of startup culture in the US. I specifically remember staying with a group of fruit pickers that were some of the happiest people I have ever met, even though none of them had more than a thousand dollars in the bank.