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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you 15:14.  What an enlightened post.

Thank you too, nanny.  You have provided many useful ideas for budget travelling with a respectful, non-pretentious tone.  I am sure you are lovely and congrats on all your travelling.

I lived in Japan for 3 summers growing up, and travelled there as an adult.  I have also travelled extensively around our amazing country, and am a strong advocate of placing travel as a top priority.

Many of the posters on this topic present themselves as the most pretentious, narrow-minded, unenlightened, snobbish bunch of people ever to fly across the ocean.  You may be cosmopolitan and international, but you are completely out of touch as to how the rest of America lives.  Clearly all this travel has done nothing to broaden your minds beyond your narrow circle, nor does it appear to have taught you lessons in open-mindedness, compassion or even good manners.

I grew up in a lower-middle class, blue collar community in the Midwest.  Most of the people I knew did not travel or only travelled locally.  For most, it was not because they were closed minded or bad with money.  It is because when you are supporting your family and living paycheck to paycheck just to pay the rent and put food on the table, taking an international vacation simply is not something that would be a responsible decision.  Saved money often went to repair the blown head gasket on the 14 year old car, or the leaking roof, or flushing the backed up septic system, or if they were lucky to pay for college at the state university.  But these people were kind, generous to a fault and rich with the life experiences, compassion and empathy that a not so rich life provides.

If you want to encourage people to travel, approach it like nanny, not by trying to make others feel inferior because their lives have taken a different path than the socially and fiscally blessed of DC.
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