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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was fresh out of college, I moved away from my family. My parents got upset with me not coming home more frequently, but I hardly made any money and it was super expensive. They never offered to pay, nor did they offer to come visit me. You have to meet in the middle at least.[/quote]

I moved away too and made close to nothing. I drove home 2x a year on my dime. It was important to me so I made it priority. When I saved enough, I would fly.[/quote]

Cross country is a 2-3 day drive, depending on the final destination. Doing that 2x a year would mean 8-12 days of driving. That’s a lot of driving.[/quote]

That would have been every single one of my vacation days in my early 20s. Pretty depressing to never do anything except road tripping home to sit in your childhood bedroom. Luckily,  my parents never would have had those expectations and I don't have them either for my own kids. OP needs to get on a plane to visit and maybe plan some fun trips.[/quote]

It was all my vacations. I am one who posted that I sent home when I got more $ I flew and had days to do other things, but for mine, my parents had paid for college and was what I wanted to do. Now would have been easier because can take train or bus and work while going and can better hunt for plane tix and with gas prices, plane tix now usually less than what would be for gas to drive and hotel when stop.[/quote]

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