Is this a normal or excessive amount of travel?

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[Post New]12/04/2019 16:57
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Belle138
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Sounds like a highly privileged life. We are solidly middle class and nobody I know travels that much.
[Post New]12/05/2019 07:46
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Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:Totally normal for UMC areas.

In fact, I bet you could start a new thread asking people to list the places they visited this year on vacation and it would look similar to this lady’s list.

I know mine would (Costa Rica, Portugal, Vancouver, and 2 weeks in the OBX)


Basic.


Exactly my point. Everyone I know travels this much or more. Nothing special.


Yup. Regular middle class.


You have GOT to be kidding me. Please.
[Post New]12/05/2019 12:54
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Anonymous
I grew up quite wealthy and don’t think we traveled this much. But my family did have a summer home that I’d spend the summers at.

Now if I had the vacation time and money I’d love to travel more. But almost all our vacation time is visiting family on the opposite coast. We typically fly cross country one or two times per year. The last time we did a “just us” vacation (spouse and 2 kids) was almost 3 years ago and the one before that was pre-children (5 years earlier)!
[Post New]12/05/2019 14:25
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Anonymous


Interesting. "All these people" who are able to not only afford all these trips but also get away from their maybe not so demanding jobs. DH works in big law and I work part time in healthcare. We can afford it but now way could DH take weeks at a time several times a year to go places with limited cell service. We tend to take a few days at a time versus weeks.
[Post New]12/05/2019 15:04
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Anonymous
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Interesting. "All these people" who are able to not only afford all these trips but also get away from their maybe not so demanding jobs. DH works in big law and I work part time in healthcare. We can afford it but now way could DH take weeks at a time several times a year to go places with limited cell service. We tend to take a few days at a time versus weeks.
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Big Law is notorious for sucking the life out of someone where everyone but the bread winner can travel and the lawyer slaves away
[Post New]12/08/2019 05:46
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Anonymous
Is your sister distinguishig between traveling and vacationing? Perhaps she wants to explore India or Laos or Uganda, which is different than a week's vacation at the beach or a trip to Disneyworld evry year. When she has a vacation rental at the beach, maybe it feels like the same life of cooking, laundry and cleaning, just in a different location. Maybe she yearns for a camel trek in the Sahara, or exploring something different like the Inca trail.

As someone mentioned, the exploring-type travel trips are more difficult with young kids.

[Post New]12/08/2019 08:04
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Anonymous
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Interesting. "All these people" who are able to not only afford all these trips but also get away from their maybe not so demanding jobs. DH works in big law and I work part time in healthcare. We can afford it but now way could DH take weeks at a time several times a year to go places with limited cell service. We tend to take a few days at a time versus weeks.
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Big Law is notorious for sucking the life out of someone where everyone but the bread winner can travel and the lawyer slaves away[/quotes

We suffered through that until dh made partner, but now he can basically set his own schedule and travel as much as he wants - although it does need to be planned carefully around headings/briefs, and sometimes last minute if he doesn’t know long in advance.
[Post New]12/08/2019 08:33
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Anonymous
Sounds to me like she’s wanting to scratch a different sort of itch.
[Post New]12/09/2019 15:10
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Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:Sounds basic to me OP. We travel more than that and avoid repeat travel. We want to see the whole world.


Good for you. How many countries have you guys done? And apparently, based on the other thread in this forum, you haven’t seen the world until you’ve walked the urine soaked streets of Philadelphia. LOL.


Or stepped over piles and piles human poop in Seattle.
[Post New]12/09/2019 21:21
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Anonymous
just depends. I don't really like travel so it would be too much for me.
[Post New]12/09/2019 21:35
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Anonymous
Not sure who has time for all of this.

My DH is an orthopedic surgeon and his surgery and patient schedule is PACKED. He has emergencies that come up all the time. Sure I could travel without him, but that is not fun. With people getting older and older and fatter and fatter and doing more and more sports into older age, people are kicking his doors down. Combine that with us having 4 kids who are very busy, even though I'm a SAHM, we have an AuPair just to help get the kids to all their sports and events. My kids cannot even travel a ton because with 4 we have anything from lacrosse to ballet, to tennis to horse trials.
[Post New]12/09/2019 22:01
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Anonymous
Yeah, count me skeptical too. Once kids get into
into middle school and beyond, it’s all friends, ECs and sports. Maybe some of these people are Foreign Service, WB, USAID or something because they’re the only folks I know who get a ton of US & host country holidays, long school breaks and opportunities with miles etc. plus “home” leave. Maybe business owners too.

If you’re a SAHP and don’t mind traveling without your partner, go for it, it’s not for me personally.
[Post New]12/10/2019 08:34
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Not sure who has time for all of this.

My DH is an orthopedic surgeon and his surgery and patient schedule is PACKED. He has emergencies that come up all the time. Sure I could travel without him, but that is not fun. With people getting older and older and fatter and fatter and doing more and more sports into older age, people are kicking his doors down. Combine that with us having 4 kids who are very busy, even though I'm a SAHM, we have an AuPair just to help get the kids to all their sports and events. My kids cannot even travel a ton because with 4 we have anything from lacrosse to ballet, to tennis to horse trials.


gee that's a nice way of putting it
[Post New]12/12/2019 19:19
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not sure who has time for all of this.

My DH is an orthopedic surgeon and his surgery and patient schedule is PACKED. He has emergencies that come up all the time. Sure I could travel without him, but that is not fun. With people getting older and older and fatter and fatter and doing more and more sports into older age, people are kicking his doors down. Combine that with us having 4 kids who are very busy, even though I'm a SAHM, we have an AuPair just to help get the kids to all their sports and events. My kids cannot even travel a ton because with 4 we have anything from lacrosse to ballet, to tennis to horse trials.


gee that's a nice way of putting it


Not that poster, but I'm also in a field that is expanding rapidly (no pun intended) due to obesity. This is not an insult this is fact. Know any endocrinologists? Offices packed full of Type 2 diabetics. What about cardiologists? Once again full of overweight people.

I can imagine an Ortho is doing. A lot of hips and knees on people who are loading lip their skeletons with excessive weight.
[Post New]12/12/2019 19:29
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Anonymous
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It’s rich people travel and she’s complaining because she doesn't realize it sounds incredibly entitled and spoiled.

You might want to remind her that most people in the US don’t travel like this.




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