Anonymous wrote:We are traveling. But it's all booked and not refundable.

+1 Plus, it's to visit my family, and my mom has dementia. I can't keep putting it off. But, it will be low key. Just visiting friends and family, though we will probably spend a lot dining out because when we visit it's always around eating. That's just my culture.

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a haves/have nots divide, just like everything else.

As much as it comes as a shock to those on the Jobs board, a lot of us are not feds and not worried about job loss.

I think anyone who thinks fed cuts and the impetus behind what Trump is doing won’t potentially have an effect on them too is delusional. That does not mean I think everyone is at imminent risk of job loss but if you think this starts and stops at a few hundred thousand feds, you’re being blindly confident. I think it’s very plausible the man tanks the economy to the degree a lot of people who felt themselves impervious will be stunned to realize they weren’t.

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a haves/have nots divide, just like everything else.

As much as it comes as a shock to those on the Jobs board, a lot of us are not feds and not worried about job loss.

Yeah, well, I’m reconsidering my trip because of likely instability (or worse) in Europe and the potential for negative perceptions about Americans there.

This is going to be a haves/have nots divide, just like everything else.

As much as it comes as a shock to those on the Jobs board, a lot of us are not feds and not worried about job loss.

Nope. Already booked.

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Anonymous wrote:We are still going to our second house in the Côte d'Azur for 3 months.

Well I am going to my 3rd house for 4 months. Only the little people spend May in DC.

We are going to visit our 4th home for spring break. We plan to summer at our 5th house. Economy be damned, we deserve a vacation.

All travel plans on hold until we know how bad the economy is going to get. Low confidence that it will be ok by summer.

Buy this summer there may be a full fledged measles outbreak in the US. I wouldn't put any deposits down on travel right now.

Anonymous wrote:After today's turn of events, I don't want to go to England this fall. We may be in the middle of WWIII by then, and even if that is hyperbolic, I'm not wanting to travel abroad at this point.

I have no idea what, if any, options we have regarding the money we spent on biz class flights to London for the October trip. I'm going to have DH look into it tonight (I don't have the emotional bandwith to deal with it).

If you can afford it, go. I have found the Brits to be wonderful hosts. They know half of the voters voted against Trump.

After today's turn of events, I don't want to go to England this fall. We may be in the middle of WWIII by then, and even if that is hyperbolic, I'm not wanting to travel abroad at this point.

I have no idea what, if any, options we have regarding the money we spent on biz class flights to London for the October trip. I'm going to have DH look into it tonight (I don't have the emotional bandwith to deal with it).

Every single day with this incompetent, horrific, and evil administration is completely exhausting.

I'm mad that we reelected Trump too.

No way am I getting on a plane right now. We plan on doing a driving vacation to a blue state at this point.

Anonymous wrote:After the fiasco today in the WH and Trump essentially confirming he’s Putin’s pawn, we might reconsider an EU trip. They are MAD that Americans reelected Trump.

Well, yeah. It probably means they’re going to war to fight off Putin’s aggression, and maybe ours, too. Wouldn’t you be pissed? FFS WE ARE NOW ALIED WITH RUSSIA AND NORTH KOREA.

This is the upside down.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is SO DCUM.

You mean logical and well reasoned? I agree. It’s quite refreshing compared to other forums with maga moms worried about vaccines, gay children and trafficking in their neighborhoods.

Not sure we’ll be allowed in Europe anymore. Who wants to go to Moscow? No one actually