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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi all.  Chicken Bus Lady here.  Honestly, I haven't been on this thread for days and some prior posts have been wrongly attributed to me -- but I'm not going to try and clean them up.  Why bother.

To answer one the questions asked above, yes, I'm rich (and early retired) but that's not why and how I've always traveled and even now when we travel we never, ever travel "rich."  Our typical trip before covid got in the way was to pick a country to explore for about a month, started each trip staying at true budget places and moving up to nicer places as the trip progresses.  We rarely go "luxury," though, and never do all-inclusives or big resorts or chain hotels.  We will never be Marriott Gold members because that is definitely not our style.

Before we became rich and early retired we always traveled abroad though.  When we had kids we traveled with them, and before that we both studied abroad -- both the junior year thing but also grad school under well known graduate fellowships.  It's just something we've always done and have always been comfortable doing.

I'm not surprised to hear that Marriott Gold has chosen to live abroad, honestly.  In our experience, an unusually large percentage of Americans (and Canadians, ha ha) who choose to do that are weirdos.  We do our best to avoid expats when we travel abroad.    [/quote]

How were you able to get rich enough to retire early if you traveled so much during your working years? Or are you trust fund babies?[/quote]

LOL, no, not at all.  The opposite, in fact.  We just made travel a priority.  And obviously we've been traveling more since we stopped working.  [/quote]

This doesn’t answer the question though and is a total deflection.  [/quote]

Um, ok . . .

I thought I did answer it, by saying we traveled more after retiring.

We got married young, had kids young, went the public school / state college route, and made good money all the while and were careful with it and invested wisely.  That's how.  Then, of course, there's the question:  how rich is rich?  You might not consider me to be rich.  And I'm probably not rich by DCUM standards.  All I know is I have more than enough money to do what I want, and plenty of time to do it.  [/quote]

So much for that “humble brag…”

I’ve always felt bad for people in the DC area who went to state schools. It’s such a disadvantage. Did you at least manage private for your kids?[/quote]

The kids went to UVA.  They're fine, thank you very much.  Now stop trolling.  All I'm doing is answering questions.[/quote]

[b]So you live in Virginia, interesting.[/b] I had you pegged for MoCo for sure.[/quote]

LiveD.  I'm not there anymore and haven't been for over a decade.  [/quote]

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