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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD did a 3 week backpacking trip with a friend last summer after graduating.  They both worked all school year to have enough money to do it, planned it out themselves.  Parents paid for the round trip flights as their graduation gift, kids otherwise fully funded it.  Both spent the rest of the summer working too.

Discovered during the trip that they thought you booked hostels by nights instead of arrival day / departure day so there were a few nights they had to scramble to find a place to sleep.  They got a Euro-rail pass and crammed quite a lot into their three weeks!  Was a great experience.

[b]Definitely not rich.[/quote][/b]

If you have money to buy your kid a r/t ticket to Europe, you are rich. [/quote]

It was $680, and her high school graduation gift.  We own one car, live in a 1000 sq foot apartment, take camping trips for vacation.  You make a lot of assumptions about one plane ticket.[/quote]

I don’t have any extra money after paying bills. Ditto for most of America. [/quote]

It doesn't mean that someone who can spend $680 on one plane ticket is rich. . .there's are people who can't pay all their bills, ever.  There are some people who drop $30k on an international vacation for the whole family every single year, sometimes more than once.  I promise you, in real life, you wouldn't look at my life and judge me as "rich". . .but you do you.[/quote]

Having that amount of disposable income is rich to me. I’d love to have the money to pay for my kid to travel to Europe. We use our earnings for necessities. Traveling to Europe isn’t one of them. It’s a luxury. [/quote]

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