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I can't see your average English person flying that much. On to that i'd say I've got about another 10 flights this year, most likely to Stansted, Newark and ORD.
I can't see your average English person flying that much. On to that i'd say I've got about another 10 flights this year, most likely to Stansted, Newark and ORD.
How do you fund your traveling if you don't mind me asking?
As a working man that earns well I would struggle.
You shouldn't generalise about the English not travelling much, I can smell a cowpat! Since Francis Drake and the Mayflower, or the Bounty, England, ( also all of Britain) have loved to travel the world; you cant say all Welsh are this, all English are that, or do you mean black English, or white Welsh, or mixed race Scousers, or someone half-Scot-half English, or Southern Irish, yet Polish descent. If you generalise in a Global world now people will bash you. I have been to the US, Tuscany, Rome, Normandy, Barbados ( cheap deal), last couple of years and I am a working class, polite, Briton. If you read books you will want to travel. Don't let Uni make you all superior and sulky
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I'm not superior. I'm being real, most of the people haven't really travelled all that far and if they did it was through hostels and a gap year thing i.e not a regular thing.
Well, maybe older Brits ( English, Welsh, Scots, Ulster) travel more, though I have heard of problems with young English travellers in Thailand, NZ, Zanzibar ect: I only said sulky because you sound a lot younger than me.
All of those flights only cost about £3,000; some of which were business class. People greatly overestimate the cost of flights.
It's probably cheaper for me to go home now rather than the people in other parts of England (I would never say that though, they'd be angry).
Maybe you are a lot more fortunate than most people. When I was at college there was no money to go traveling and my mother certainly could not afford to give me cash. I used to hitch hike up and down the M6/A74 to home and back.
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A lot of people assume we're rich but really we're more fortunate than working class people but it stops there. My parents don't even have a joint income of £100,000, it's just because my parents are both retired and they have paid off their mortgages.
I guess my parents find it easier to travel because they've got more disposable income than other people. I think really it's more the fact that other people just don't spend their money on travelling, other people might spend their money on expensive handbags or nights out. I also think that a lot of people overestimate the price of travelling, like we always get people asking us how we can afford to goto America for a month etc when they don't actually price it for themselves and just assume it costs tens of thousands of pounds.
I flew business class this summer and our holiday only came to £5,000 which I think is amazing for everything we got e.g currency, business class return, 4* hotels in NYC and Washington and transport between the two.
I was hoping for some light conversation between us Americans and British based on the OP, only to find it was hijacked by our friend from Ireland. Sheesh.
A lot of people assume we're rich but really we're more fortunate than working class people but it stops there. My parents don't even have a joint income of £100,000, it's just because my parents are both retired and they have paid off their mortgages.
I guess my parents find it easier to travel because they've got more disposable income than other people. I think really it's more the fact that other people just don't spend their money on travelling, other people might spend their money on expensive handbags or nights out. I also think that a lot of people overestimate the price of travelling, like we always get people asking us how we can afford to goto America for a month etc when they don't actually price it for themselves and just assume it costs tens of thousands of pounds.
I flew business class this summer and our holiday only came to £5,000 which I think is amazing for everything we got e.g currency, business class return, 4* hotels in NYC and Washington and transport between the two.
I think you need to get a dose of the real world.
Very few people have a joint income of £100,000 and a great many people cannot afford £5,000 on a holiday. This is especially true of young people who have not ramped up their earning potential and older people who are getting a state pension of just £116/week.
You are a very fortunate young man and the sooner you realise that the better.
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