Disposable income and ability to take time away from work without pay? (And I suppose the desire to)

  • essell@lemmy.world
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    20 minutes ago

    Yes, and I have. I’ve historically chosen places where I had a human connection. Someone to show me around and introduce me to the place.

    Don’t currently have that 💁‍♂️

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Yes, and at least some motivation. However I’m still getting used to being single and it’s hard to motivate myself to travel when I don’t have someone to travel with.

  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 hours ago

    I like to travel to some interesting City and then find the one coffee shop and sit in there everyday and do nothing but work

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    1 day ago

    ability to take time away from work without pay

    Tell me you’re a US American without telling me that you’re a US American

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    You say that as if “travel regularly” was ever a thing we could do, lol.

    I used to travel when I could, maybe once every couple years. I haven’t made any long travels in a while, though. I have new expenses now that are digging into my savings, and don’t know when I’d get the chance to travel again. Rent is putting me on the razor’s edge here.

  • northernlights@lemmy.today
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    14 hours ago

    I could but I chose not to visit my family back in the home country this year as I need to make my severance pay last for I don’t know how much longer.

  • disregardable@lemmy.zip
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    16 hours ago

    I can. It’s not the most financially responsible decision. I’m supposed to be budgeting carefully to stretch my savings for the next 3 years.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    No.

    I can’t even afford a bus ticket and I haven’t been on a plane since before 9/11/2001.

    The last travel I did was three years ago when we took my elderly dog to the beach one last time, and that was only about an hour and a half drive. It was a purposefully special occasion to get him to the beach one last time. Honestly, I’d probably trade never traveling again just to have him back. Miss you, Jack.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    16 hours ago

    Travel how? I can get on a bus or train and head into NYC or Philadelphia any time I want. If I wasn’t engaged and totally in love, I could head off to Boston or Baltimore any weekend. That’s travel, but just a longer version of my old commute.