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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok of the friends I know who travel like this, both of the parents work full-time, and are 100% immersed in super high income earning careers that naturally take them away from their kids more than they might want to. The overcompensate for this absence by over vacationing, is how I think of it. I’m talking spring break in the grand Cayman Islands, surrounded by three or four of their besties from their kids $60,000 a year private school, weekends in Montana in the summer, in the Hamptons, a week in Iceland in the summer, three weeks in France, Norway and Spain in August, and more vacation throughout the year….. the kids are spoiled beyond belief and the parents travel a TON for work so a lot of that travel helps pay for the cost of the family travel through earning miles and accruing travel points. It’s a cycle and yes in our close in affluent Nova suburb it’s a whole thang.[/quote]
So this has always been a thing amongst the wealthy. This is nothing new. What is new is the extensive travel and boasting of the MC/UMC demographic. It’s the neuvo riche of travel. It’s gaudy and pretentious.[/quote]

Where exactly do you fall in the socioeconomic hierarchy that you are in a position to pass judgment as to what is tasteful or not? Also, it's "nouveau riche." If you're going to use phrases like this you really must spell them correctly. [/quote]
I am UMC and am older and wiser than most posting and boasting about their worldly excursions. I manage these people, I am well aware of their annual incomes.[/quote]

We were on a plane yesterday and got to listen to the two passengers in front of us showing off about their travel experiences. I was cracking up laughing at these fifty somethings trying to out-impress each other. It was like an SNL skit. One of them undermined herself by mispronouncing the names of Japanese cities she'd visited. She ordered champagne for the short flight into the hub airport.[/quote]
They come in all age brackets. And who cares if someone can’t pronounce a foreign city correctly? Can foreign people pronounce all US cities correctly? Pretentious idiots [/quote]

When you're pretending to be worldly wise, it helps to be able to pronounce the names of the famous cities you're bragging about visiting. I'm guessing many foreigners can pronounce the names New York and Washington DC and Chicago correctly. Granted Susquehanna or Chincoteague might be more challenging.[/quote]

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