Traveling internationally is cheaper than domestic travel

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why people think you have to be rich to travel internationally. If you visited other countries, you would realize the most expensive country in the world is America. In Europe, the costs of food, hotels, and transportation is cheaper than America. In Asia, you can get a five start hotel at Marriott for like $100 per night. Even in wealthy places like Singapore, restaurant food is like a quarter of the cost compared to America.

This is patently false. We were in Switzerland last summer and food is much more expensive than in the US. I’m talking even the lone McDonalds in Lucerne. What are you smoking?!

Newsflash: Europe consists of 44 countries. Switzerland is by far the most expensive country in Europe. There are plenty of other countries in Europe that have far cheaper costs of food and accomodation than Switzerland, and cheaper costs that say, a trip to Orlando. For example, Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey--all of which have terrific reasonably priced options for tourists.

Switzerland is insanely expensive for food. But most of the other countries in Europe are not. There are so many videos of people eating ramen in their hotel rooms in Switzerland right now.

I will say though that DC is just outrageously priced, and then there's taxes and tips on everything.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why people think you have to be rich to travel internationally. If you visited other countries, you would realize the most expensive country in the world is America. In Europe, the costs of food, hotels, and transportation is cheaper than America. In Asia, you can get a five start hotel at Marriott for like $100 per night. Even in wealthy places like Singapore, restaurant food is like a quarter of the cost compared to America.

This is patently false. We were in Switzerland last summer and food is much more expensive than in the US. I’m talking even the lone McDonalds in Lucerne. What are you smoking?!

Newsflash: Europe consists of 44 countries. Switzerland is by far the most expensive country in Europe. There are plenty of other countries in Europe that have far cheaper costs of food and accomodation than Switzerland, and cheaper costs that say, a trip to Orlando. For example, Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey--all of which have terrific reasonably priced options for tourists.

Switzerland is insanely expensive for food. But most of the other countries in Europe are not. There are so many videos of people eating ramen in their hotel rooms in Switzerland right now.

I will say though that DC is just outrageously priced, and then there's taxes and tips on everything.

In Switzerland we bought spaghetti at the grocery and stayed in a hostel. We would never travel so frugally anywhere else. It makes me not want to go back.


In fact, we stayed in Venice longer than Switzerland in part because it was much less expensive.

Switzerland is an outlier. Which makes actually mentioned in an earlier post in this thread.