travel bragging question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s annoying when people you don’t know steer conversations towards their recent travels during casual social interactions where it’s not relevant. And yes, it’s definitely bragging, although I’m not sure why these people think I’m supposed to be impressed that they went to Bali or Corsica or Iceland or wherever. Big deal… If want to really impress me, tell me you built your own sailboat and sailed it around the leeward islands one winter.

Why do you assume they are trying to impress you? I enjoy hearing about what people are doing in their lives. If that means they traveled to Iceland, cool, tell me all about it. If you went camping 20 min away? I'm interested too!

If I haven’t asked you “have you done any fun trips this year?”, then I don’t care to hear about your trip to that summer rental in Rodanthe last month.

[Anonymous]

We talk travel with friends/family who are in similar income brackets and share an interest in travel. If they don't have both of those qualities, we don't share travel info unless directly asked. I mean, maybe we'll offer that we went camping at a state park for dc's birthday. But actual "vacations" - no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bragging about travel is lame. Call me when you have 1-2 houses overseas and you divide your time up that way. Yawns.

But bragging about real estate is...cool?

[Anonymous]

🤮 No one likes braggers.

[Anonymous]

Most of my friends have more money than I do, so they travel often and to interesting places. I get one trio with my kid every year, for 7-9 days, usually domestic. I'm definitely not bragging if I talk about it, but I do get really excited telling people. I don't think most travel talk is bragging.

[Anonymous]

People talk about their lives, especially the fun, interesting parts.

If you can’t afford travel, that might sound like bragging, but it is normal to me.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the source as well as the inflection in which it is presented.

I would need to actually be a fly on the wall to form an opinion on context…..

[Anonymous]

another topic on list of topics to talk or not talk about. No to religion, politics, and if other person is not interested in sports, arts, food/cooking, gardening, what's left? Weather and...family?

[Anonymous]

Not all travel talk is boring. Your mother’s sounds boring though, mainly because you say she talks non stop.

Anything is boring when the speaker doesn’t even care if the listener is engaged.

I hate talking to my mom sometimes because she doesn’t let me get a word in edgewise, and she talks about things that are poor conversation (politics, her health for 20 minutes, how my sister or father are annoying)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only insecure people think someone telling you about their vacation is bragging.

Only insecure people accuse others of being insecure.

So, you're insecure.

[Anonymous]

As long as you are talking to people in the same (or better) income bracket as you, it’s not bragging it’s just conversation. But I don’t discuss it with my pedicurist or my house cleaner, because they feels vulgar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as you are talking to people in the same (or better) income bracket as you, it’s not bragging it’s just conversation. But I don’t discuss it with my pedicurist or my house cleaner, because they feels vulgar.

This is a good point. We have a couple of people in the extended family who talk non stop about travels. I find it interesting conversations. I like hearing about were they go and what they did. They are retired and DH and I are still working so we can’t travel like that yet.

A few others gossip and find them pretentious, always talking about how they were on different trips. They are at a different income level and won’t be able to travel like that even in retirement. They also don’t like travel.

I think all of us agree that these conversations are better than discussing politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as you are talking to people in the same (or better) income bracket as you, it’s not bragging it’s just conversation. But I don’t discuss it with my pedicurist or my house cleaner, because they feels vulgar.

This is a good point. We have a couple of people in the extended family who talk non stop about travels. I find it interesting conversations. I like hearing about were they go and what they did. They are retired and DH and I are still working so we can’t travel like that yet.

A few others gossip and find them pretentious, always talking about how they were on different trips. They are at a different income level and won’t be able to travel like that even in retirement. They also don’t like travel.

I think all of us agree that these conversations are better than discussing politics.

This. people need to know their audience and also know if the discussion is welcome or not.

[Anonymous]

It's a hobby. Most of my bosses talk about football and make sports analogies. A huge part of their lives. I wish I could like football and I do feel left out on occasion. So I can see someone who doesn't travel, especially if they wish they could, taking it as bragging or off putting. But I just see these things as different interests, period. I talk about biking all the time. I'm sure I annoy some people but it brings me joy.

[Anonymous]

It seems like travel has taken the place of real estate for bragging - especially among Millennials and younger people. I see posts from my younger friends and relatives, and it looks like the travel is all about getting social media likes. Sometimes I’m not even sure if they actually enjoy traveling or it’s just a box to check off.