Do most people in America just not take vacations?
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Anonymous
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Before the pandemic, we usually traveled to see extended family 2x and went on 1 smaller trip as a nuclear family per year. My PTO at work was like 2 weeks of vacation and 1 week of sick time. They allowed you to rollover a certain number of hours year to year, but I was never able to accrue enough to need to roll it over at the end of the year.
People in Europe don't think that 3 weeks off per year is a lot of time off. Many Americans would be happy to have any PTO at all. |
Anonymous
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People are caregivers to elderly, children, plants and animals.
The amount of logistics required to take vacations is overwhelming. Very few people can leave everything and take off. |
Anonymous
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I don't. I take a day off here or there, but don't really go on vacations.
Camping trips - that sounds like hell to me. I'd rather work than go camp. road trips to visit family - I don't have a car, and the family that lives locally to me is very rich and busy (with all their vacations and rich-people friends and rich-people activities) so I only see them via mass transit every 3-4 months, and the rest of my family lives across the country and flight, hotel, rental car, food, etc. is prohibitively expensive. Staycations at home - I hate my apartment and do not find it relaxing. It's as good as it can get, and is still crap. Rent-control has me trapped. So a staycation would not be enjoyable. |
Anonymous
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In the past 3 years, we've taken at least the following trips involving hotels and sometimes flights: 9 nights, 8 nights, 5 nights, 3 nights at least 3 times. Plus driving with hotels for 2 nights 8+ times, 1 night at least 5 times, and a spring break staying with family.
Most of my 10 closet coworkers have gone abroad at least once in that time period. I think only 2 plus me haven't, but they've taken weeklong domestic trips. |
Anonymous
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i haven't been out of the country in over 10 years.
then i spent time trying to save up leave so i could have a baby, so all my "vacations" were like four-day holiday weekends using credit hours. and maybe a wedding here or there. now with RTO and no telework, i have only just now taken the first actual unplugged vacations i have ever had in 10 years ... because i ran out of summer camps and backup care hours. in the past i would have gone to stay with the grandparents and worked half-days by getting up at 5am, but now i can't do that, so it's just slacking for a week and a half. it was kind of nice but now i'm back and still slogging through backlog. |
Anonymous
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Only 45-50 percent of US people have Passports. Back in 2008 it hit a low of 30 percent.
And Hotel prices and sports tickets etc. are through the roof. So even short trips are crazy expensive. For example I have NFL season ticket in NY. I live in DMV last decade but still have them. Back in 2009 I sell some of my good seats for games. But when I went I sometimes see Eagles Fans, Ravens Fans, Pats Fans in my section who could just go on line buy a tickets for as cheap as 50 to 100 bucks each in a good section. Stay at Hotel by Stadium for like $125 a night or maybe if took Amtrak stay at Cheap Hotel by NYC Penn Station which used to be dumpier over their and in 2009 cheaper hotel prices. Maybe $175 a night it lucky. Be a lot of Cops, Fireman, College kids. They split room two or even four ways and could come see the game and make a weekend. Hotel and game ticket might be as little as $100-$125 person if sharing a room. Well in 2025 my tickets for the next game I sold for $500 each. Parking in stadium now like like almost $100 for the close spots, Hotels in NYC with Tax for a Saturday Night are pushing $500 a night. Even by Stadium $300 -$350 a night. Most of my tickets go to LLCs, Business to take clients, Or rich neighborhood. I used to sell to cops at $100. I have six tickets. If a family with four kids went to the game tickets alone would be $3,000 my section And places like Disney World the tickets since 2009 are also up crazy. Look at Restaurant Week in DC this week. Places have a $65 dinner before tax and tip. That is the Deal .That was like $25 dollars 15 years ago. Peoples wages have not doubled and tripled since 2009 so hence less money for vacations or even going out. |
Anonymous
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Lake Beach
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BinH9aMYro4 |
Anonymous
| I think taking a week or two over the summer seems pretty average, whether its an ambitious trip or visiting grandparents. I don't think the DCUM traveling weeks every year and flying places for long weekend thing is as common. |
Anonymous
| I'm on vacation right now, use my PTO frequently (we have unlimited PTO and I am the boss so I push my staff to get away from work, too, I don't want burnt out people). People like to be martyrs, not me, when I am not working, I don't work. |
Anonymous
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I try to take vacations. I took one whole week in May outside the US and enjoyed myself. I tried earlier in August to take 4 days - was interrupted by work each of the days though not for long. I have no backup (I am an in house lawyer) so if there's a legal issue I have to work.
Meanwhile our head of HR who wasn't born in the US is currently on her 4th international trip this calendar year. Yeah, I'm a sucker. |
Anonymous
25 days!! I get 10 days of PTO plus only 7 holiday. Christ on a cracker. |
Anonymous
No that's not extremely busy. Extremely busy is 80-90 hours a week for a month. |
Anonymous
I work 50 weeks a year. I do work for a 60 something year old manager. |
Anonymous
That's funny, i travel with friends because my husband doesn't care to go away. He's retired and I still work. |
Anonymous
| I have so much leave built up but the higher ups in my office don’t take vacation days so I feel pressured not to. I am not even a high earner like many on DCUM! |