[ SECRET POST #1577 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1577 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much what the other two have said. It's not a matter of the US having a lower standard of living [since that seems to be what you were saying], which the difference isn't as big as most people assume, so much as it is *amazingly* expensive to go overseas, and in the US [and I believe Canada, though I could be wrong about that] we also tend to get less time off, making it harder to make a trip overseas where you'll have to deal with the effects of going 5-8+ hours a head of your timezone, you'd almost have to be heading back home about the time you reajusted to the new timezone/jetlag wore off. Where as if you stay with in the US/only travel between Canada/US/Mexico it's no where near as expensive as flying to a completely different continent.

[I don't know if this would help or not, but look at how expensive it would be for you to visit the US. Pretty expensive, right? It's the same for us.]

I think what the OP is getting at is that it can come off as bragging/showing off their wealth to bring it up in a conversation when the topic about something like that hasn't been proached. [I.E. It can kinda come off like someone talking about having a huge house/uber-fancy car/ect.]

[(Anonymous)]

Funny, because it actually isn't amazingly expensive. Tickets from the US to Europe are often cheaper than in the other direction, Europeans pay more green and airport taxes and they go on longer haul holidays - many Western Europeans regularly holiday in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, North and South America. It's just your idea of what is expensive isn't ours in terms of travel - we are used to paying hight flight, food and hotel costs, you aren't and so don't prioritise holiday expenditure the way we do.

[(Anonymous)]

Depends entirely where you're flying from. The commenter below explains it all a lot better than I can, but to sum it up: A lot of airports *are* difficult to get to, you can't always get to them via mass transit, and even then you have to be flying out of specific hubs to get out of the country. A lot of places within the US it is *much* cheaper to drive to your destination than fly, even if it takes much, much longer - and is actually easier in a lot ways.

The 'longer haul' holidays bit still has the problem of we don't have vacations that are as long. Want to admit it or not, that *is* a factor when your going across as many timezones as we're talking about - because of the adjustment to the new time if nothing else.

Also, where was hotel and food costs mentioned? We do factor those into our vacation plans, just as most of us factor in misc. expenses that we can't predict coming up - unless you think that we don't eat and/or sleep at any point during a vacation.