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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm from Europe and it's very common to own a vacation house. Absolutely nobody goes to someone else's vacations house on their own just like you don't go and "stay" in someone's ordinary house. All the expenses, cleanup, maintenance etc. is not any different, sometimes more difficult/more expensive if further away or remote. If the BIL wants to use a vacation house every month, he needs to buy himself one. The ones here who shout about letting everyone stay, sure, put down your address and we all come over to "live in" your vacation house for free! We're nice, I promise! [/quote]

Yea, well, this isn't Europe.  It's high time you learned to assimilate.  [/quote]

Awwww, you wanted to come to my vacation house, not me coming to your vacation house, right?![/quote]

Your vacation house sounds like a house of horrors with tacky lamps and plastic covered furniture. Hard pass.[/quote]

Oh, you want a nice house with pretty lamps to stay at? But cannot afford to buy yourself even one ugly one? I guess beggars can't be choosers, eh? I'm packing my bags, let me know where your nice house with pretty lamps is at! Not sure about this covered furniture part, I guess it's some American thing to cover furniture! [/quote]

Wrong side, babe, I'm the house loaner and a broken lamp in life doesn't make me distrustful and angry towards family. Nobody here cares about your dingy old cottage that's been handed down and is rundown and shabby with a tattered old lamp.[/quote]

You don't own anything. Nobody who actually owns a vacation house gets worked out about someone not letting them use theirs. Sure, in Europe vacation houses are small and that's the point -- you go there to spend time outside and many people can afford one! While in the US one rich family member buys a HUUUUGE vacation house and all the others have to beg to use it. You don't have a flex here. That said, I've been to a rundown American old house on the private beach, handed down 100+ years, owned by a well-off family and it was an experience of a lifetime! It was owned by many cousins and had a system in place for maintenance and costs. The family had also built themselves a modern house nearby (where they don't live year-round) and absolutely nobody except them went there. So you do you in your fantasy land! [/quote]

Nobody is “worked out” lol we have very different cultures and economic status. We are not the same.[/quote]

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