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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds good maybe your kids aren’t beach people. 4 is a tough age, but if they don’t like it, they don’t like it. Go to Hershey Park, Baltimore, etc. we never had a week long vacation when I was a kid. [/quote]

Americans are so depressing.[/quote]
Americans are so depressing because (some) don't like the beach and would rather go to an amusement park or a cool city? What?[/quote]

Not PP, but Americans are depressing because so many do not take vacations of any length. PP commented that when she was a kid, they never had a week long vacation. That is terrible.

Leisure is just as important as work is. [/quote]

Are you saying that there are no families in Europe who never travel for vacations?  Because, except for the very poor, not traveling is a choice, and has little to do with "leisure."  I grew up very lower middle/middle class (not DCUM "middle class") and we took vacations every year.  They were very inexpensive -- visit relatives who lived near the shore, go camping, drive to nearby cities -- but we left for a week or more.  I know very well to do people who don't travel, because they don't like it or at least don't place a value on it. That doesn't mean that they don't have "leisure."  It just doesn't involve travel.  In fact, I know lots of people who live in more rural areas who rarely travel very far who have way more "leisure" (camping, fishing, hanging out at a local lake/beach) than the well-to-do people in DC.  I suspect that there are people all over the world who are like that.  I don't understand why you find other people's choices "depressing" just because they are different from yours.   [/quote]

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