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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Millions of possibilities. Sounds like you’re fixated on what you don’t have. [/quote] I feel like people who say this usually have plenty or at least enough. It’s like saying money doesn’t buy happiness while living in a McMansion and being well off…[/quote] I disagree. We are firmly middle class (HHI last year was 121k) and I definitely don't feel restricted to Ocean City and staying in Econolodges. We don't eat at 5 star restaurants or stay in $300/night hotels, either, but we do lots of things. In the last few years, we've done: NYC (stayed in AirBnB, hung out with friends, did some Central Park, the Highline, the Met, and the ferry) Nashville (AirBnB, saw live music at the honkeytonks during the day, visited the big gardens outside of town, hit up western and consignment stores, ate amazing food) Outer Banks, twice (group house rentals with friends) Montreal (crazy affordable, including cheap short flights) New Mexico (ABQ, Santa Fe, hiking in the mountains, great food) Charleston (weirdly the least kid-friendly of the places we've been recently, but we did like the beach and Fort Sumter) Florida multiple times, typical Florida stuff but not Disney because kids are still a bit young to enjoy it New Orleans (more live music, lots of walking around, eating crawfish and jambalaya, etc.) Plus weekends in Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, as well as visits to family. None of this stuff is that expensive if you know how to scout cheap flights, go outside of peak times of year, and don't get sucked in for pricy tours or do lots of shopping. We like sightseeing, walking/hiking, seeing gardens and museums, and so our kids have grown up doing and enjoying those things to. None of them are pricy. Some of our favorite family memories are things like having a picnic on Mont Real or eating beignets in the park in NoLa. My DD still talks about sitting on the beach with me early in the morning and letting the tide roll up and slowly bury us in the wet sand as we sang songs in the Outer Banks. Planning vacations on a budget is not even a particularly unique skill and I am super grateful to live in a place so convenient to so many neat, affordable places. I grew up in a remote town out west with no local airport and all our vacations involved like 12 hours of driving each way. Meanwhile, we can save money and do a trip to London with our family for under 5k, and be there in less time than it used to take my family to drive to the nearest major city. Everything is relative.[/quote]
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