Reply to Are upper middle class family gatherings now just luxury travel pissing contests?

Forum Index » Family Relationships

Reply to "Are upper middle class family gatherings now just luxury travel pissing contests?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok so explain to us. In what context, if ever, are we allowed to mention travel such that it won’t be considered bragging?[/quote]

If someone directly asks you, “so did you travel this summer?” you can respond with where you went. If they ask follow up questions, you may answer.

It’s that simple. If no one asks, don’t bring it up and definitely do not post on social media. [/quote]

One could say this about almost any topic of conversation. So don’t talk about your kids, your job, your house, etc. Perhaps you could discuss the weather?[/quote]

Yes, generally speaking you don't walk up to someone and start randomly bragging about something they didn't ask about it. That's how polite conversation works. [/quote]

Who the hell does that?

I seriously think the people who claim these sort of obnoxious travel conversation happens have never been part of any of those conversations and are instead just making things up because they’re bitter they never go anywhere. [/quote]

Good grief, everyone isn't jealous of your cliche-filled travel escapades. I know a few very rich who find traveling annoying and overrated, especially international travel. Their primary home is a mansion, they might have a second vacation home on a Delaware or Florida beach and that's pretty much the only place they go. They're not too poor to travel and they're not narrow-minded rubes. They're just rich and confident and don't need to try to buy a personality with airline miles and passport stamps.[/quote]

[b]We live in a 15,000sf primary residence [/b]and also have a beach house and have friends with homes we visit. We still travel often both domestically and internationally.

My husband doesn’t love to travel the way that I do. He would rather just go to our beach house or go to another relaxing place a short flight away.[/quote]

Now THIS is bragging. And it’s frankly disgusting unless you have a multi-family, multi-generational living arrangement. And no, I am not envious. There are three people in my immediate family. I literally don’t know what we would do with 5000 sqf each.[/quote]

That PP is the worst and exactly who we are talking about. But I kind of feel sorry for her. Imagine your happiness and self worth being so intimately tied up in how large and expensive your various homes are. [/quote]

I only commented about the size of house and a beach house because the pp made it seem like people who had a mansion and vacation homes would rather just go there and that is not true.

I have never mentioned the size of my house in conversation. People who come over for play dates and parties may tell us we have a nice home.[/quote]

You should start an AMA I live in a 15K square foot house plus have two vacation homes  I just can’t imagine that!  Don’t want to detail this thread but have so many questions….[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics