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  Ok, but like I went on a vacation with my friend and her millionaire dad (back when that was more than it is now). Our vacations aren't like being the real rich.
  We stayed at the fanciest places besides the cruise. We got chauffered around. There's no parking, because you never drive a car. There's only super fancy restaurants. (Like in their fridge in their home they only have perrier and nothing else this is not an over simplification it's 100% accurate.) We didn't go on a cruise with normal people. No. We went on a special cruise that costs 10x as much and is much smaller fancy boat with only other extremely wealthy people on it. We never waited for anything. There were no lines. When we did shore adventures, again, VIP car took us from front door to front door and never a line or a wait. There was always a table waiting for us.
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  I think in many cases yes, except for those who like camping etc. >
  
  Though to camp like you're poor actually costs a lot in equipment/gear. >
  
  Not really buy some ramen packets 30 cents each take a small pot, knife, lighter and go into the forest. >
  
  Heart surgery doesn't require much equipment either, just buy a knife and maybe some needle and thread to stitch it up at the end. >
  
  Well, I don't often perform a heart surgery so idk about that, but I do go camping this way quite often. >
  
  I go on vacation to locations as far from humans as possible. >
  
  real vacation >
  
  From the Latin vacatus, past participle of vacare "to get the fuck away" >
  
  This comment needs more love. It gave me a good chuckle 😂 >
  
  If you’re the type of person who goes on vacation to sip margaritas on a beach somewhere warm and sunny or go on a cruise ship, then yeah i would say so, but some people like to go camping or hiking or visit national parks and stuff like that. >
  
  Drinking cold beer in my backyard, grilling, and listening to music on weekends is like a mini vacation for me. It’s enough to keep me from going insane, probably just as good if I took a trip, without the travelling hassles. But an actual vacation is always good too. >
  
  I gotta vent to someone. I found out half of the people i know don’t listen to music unless they’re working or at the gym. They never just listen to enjoy some beats to relax or cool down. Idk why but this makes me sad cause i constantly am listening to new music >
  
  I feel you, man. Music is life for me. I’m always listening to new music too. I look forward to hearing new music. I feel like I’d literally die without music. In addition to just listening to relax, I have music on when I’m eating breakfast, getting ready in the morning.etc. If anything, it’s the music that’s keeping me from going off into the abyss. My life’s just fine but music is the thing that keeps me wanting to live so I can keep listening. >
  
  I’m with you my man. I’ve got whole playlists with songs give me goosebumps and raise all the hairs on my body. It’s such an amazing feeling and it sucks i can’t share that with the people i care about >
  
  For many people, if you can even afford to take time off work, then you are rich. >
  
  Luckily, most countries in the world have mandatory paid vacation days though >
  
  Yeah, most. >
  
  Or because working your body to death with over 60% of the time we have on this earth is exhausting and we want time to enjoy the planet while we're here too.
  Just a thought. >
  
  And if you were to be rich you could spend all of your time enjoying your time on earth. But because we're poor people we have to spend most of our time working, and can only take a few weeks each year to enjoy a different county.
  You can't go on holiday forever, unless you're rich. Microdosing is a pretty spot-on description. >
  
  I’d rather be middle class in a first world country than rich in a third world one >
  
  Me too. Where's this first world country that still has a middle class you speak of tho? >
  
  I mean, any of them? People keep saying “oh the middle class is dead”. It’s not true. There are plenty of people who are middle class who are just living comfortably. They aren’t rich, they aren’t poor, they’re just comfortable. That’s what middle class is. People on this site are deluded into thinking that the only way to be comfortable is to be wealthy. >
  
  Statistically they don't exist.  Of course some people are doing fine.  Engineers and Tech ppl for example. >
  
  Do you have any idea how huge the number of people that covers is? >
  
  Mos Def less than 1% of the world's population >
  
  Speak for yourself. I take vacations to fully immerse myself in my true, goblin nature of not socializing and playing a new game all week. Or an old game, just leave me to my cave. >
  
  I mean, a lot of times you have to take vacations to visit family. Then you're just going on vacations to suffer. >
  
  💯 truth >
  
  This hit me really hard the last time I was on vacation. It felt so relaxing and fun to not have to be bogged down to a specific schedule and just go where ever I wanted and do just about anything I wanted (within reason and with some money constraints). But mostly just not having the responsibility to have to get up by a certain time and spend 8-12 hours a day in a company just for the rest of your day to be wasted away feels great! >
  
  Or because we are beyond burnt out and past our breaking point from the non stop relentless physical demands and requirements from our life consuming jobs that a 1 week vacation once a year is all we look forward to so we don’t completely lose our minds bat shit crazy drop everything and go live off grid in a cabin deep in the woods with zero interactions with society >
  
  Sounds like you want to do the latter. Shame you’re going to waste your one life on something you didn’t really want >
  
  When didi taking a vacation become a rich people thing? We grew fairly poor but my dad made it a point to take us on a cheap vacation once every year >
  
  I'm from the system but my wife's parents owned what turned into a 1.5M house and a 1.5M business that sold tomatoes and pumpkins from a few acres of land. No education. Not particularly efficient. Disneyland and Mexico every year, winters off completely, spoiled kids with education completely paid, one kid medically dependent on parents. Space, time, freedom, security. The mom is chilling reading books and working PT in a hospital for fun with a 10k sqft home and 2 acres just rotting because change is uncomfortable and so is housework. 
  My generation at 30- Wife went through school and is earning 100k as a recruiter, I'm earning 60k working in food, ft since 13yo, doing the best I can. Cost to start a business is 13.8x more expensive than 40 years ago according to the local credit union I was hoping to borrow from. No kids but desperately want them, but living in a rented trailer. Never had a vacation in my life. Vigilant, saving, strategizing, producing value, bleeding, sweating, just to get by. 
  Every year we save is the equivalent of how much a deposit for a home increases out of our reach. Every year our income increases ~0.3x what the cost of living increases. Had a home we liked exchange hands 6 times in 5 years, increasing by over 100K each time, nobody ever lived in them, and the same agent made more in commission on those exchanges than we were able to save combined, and did literally nothing but file paperwork at 2%. 
  We should just be valuable to society and fuck on OF instead of feeding people and providing careers. I fucking hate the world right now, I had simple ambitions and worked way too hard to not be bitter about not getting them. >
  
  You sound angry. Perhaps you need to find a purposeful job that values you more. >
  
  A lot of people you see on vacation will also be working. Lots of jobs are remote nowadays and you can live way cheaper in places like Thailand than the U.K./US etc. >
  
  Yup. Have the vacation feeling for the whole time there, even when working (from a coffee shop for example). And it’s much cheaper, so your €/$/£/etc lasts way longer. >
  
  Not really, you can't build a 2.5 foot tall sandcastle on your terrace.
  Believe me, I tried, people didn't take kindly to my architectural endeavors. >
  
  I don't know about you guys, but I do it to learn about culture, history, food and nature. (And to get away from work/life's responsibilities for a bit)
  It has absolutely nothing to do with being rich. If anything, being in areas poorer than mine fills me with sadness and shame, not some rich power trip. >
  
  Perhaps.. but most people (who haven't had their riches handed to them) have to go without vacations for many years before they can live freely. The thought is on point tho! >
  
  No. I take vacations to see family, go visit a place (many of which I wouldn’t want to live in), go to the beach, go see another area of the country, to take a break from work, to celebrate holidays, or a dozen other reasons. 
  Maybe it’s “microdosing being rich” if you rent a large house in a luxury spot, but getting a hotel, staying with family, or renting a small Airbnb or cabin are all more common in my experience. 
  Even if I had a billion dollars I’d still probably do many of the vacations I do now, for similar lengths of time. My events during the vacation may change, but spending all my money on a hotel and then being concerned about how much we’re spending eating at restaurants is certainly a weird way to “microdose being rich.” >
  
  Don’t agree.  We travel to experience other people, places, and cultures.  We live within our means both at home and abroad. >
  
  If you mean that you have to be affluent to take a luxury hotel/beachy/full service vacation, you’re probably right. But I travel a fair amount without being that affluent. You can go out of peak season. You can use public transport more. You can go camping locally and have a great time. Also many people who “can’t afford” travel will have pets and veterinary care that they pay for, or a pretty decent car, or a hobby like dirt biking that they’re willing to spend money on. I know people who live in trailers who have most of those things and a great phone. To some extent, travel is about how you choose to spend the discretionary income that you do have. Also, how do you manage your expectations of what you feel you deserve. Lower those and life can be a lot more fun. Most Americans & Canadians would be seen as affluent in Mexico. Again, that’s how I see it. >
  
  You don't take them to experience something new? Or visit an old friend or family? Or anything else? >
  
  Disagree. I like seeing new cultures, landmarks, history etc >
  
  Vacation is a vacation. It's not dependent on being rich or poor. >
  
  If you take luxury trips and spend lots of money then sure. No matter how much money I have I still prefer a backpack and accommodation that only cost a few $ >
  
  I generally believe most “rich” people don’t take vacations constantly. If you’re upset about working every other weekend, start a business and you’ll lose every weekend of your life. 
  For example a rich person with a driver, chose not to drive so he can during the commute to work. In some towns this is as much as an extra hour or so. >
  
  I'm not sure Salou is a destination resort for the unfinancially challenged. >
  
  I take vacations because I want to go somewhere that interests me. >
  
  What the hell kind of vacations are people taking where they can afford to not worry about money??? >
  
  Not to relax and get away from work?  German people vacation much more than anyone else in the world and they're not the wealthiest, it's built in the culture. >
  
  I think of it as microdosing retirement, except it's better because I'm not too old to enjoy it. >
  
  There's some truth to this. I love the beach and drinking and most vacations I go out to eat so I don't have to food prep so... true.