What do your friends and family members think of your travel lifestyle?

Lots of coworkers seem jealous and make the “must be nice” comments.

Family seems positive when I mention upcoming travel plans. Mom always seems scared like I’m gonna go broke from traveling.. which I might.

My friends and family make comments that suggest they think we spend too much on travel. They buy new cars too much. I spend my money making memories and don’t think twice about it. My kids will only have a short percentage of their life under my roof. I want to have a lot of memories of this time and what better way than to travel places with them.

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My kids will only have a short percentage of their life under my roof. I want to have a lot of memories of this time and what better way than to travel places with them

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Clark W Griswold

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Checks out

Interesting question!

I think we sometimes just assume we're going here or there and it's not viewed differently by others. In our case, we've met our family obligations, and then some, so our goal is at least one European Trip per year and some type of significant domestic trip. Keep that cadence until we can't. But I'm sensitive to how that would come across. For some, with kids or less means, a trip to Europe might be a "trip of a lifetime" and here we are going 1-2 times of year. I could see how that'd look.

Co-workers. Generally happy for me, but I try not to throw it out there to obviously what I've done. But, in the last few trips, they've directly asked to "see some pictures", so I've tried to put a series together of selected pictures and just take a few minutes to go through them. Not blathering on and on about our "great trip". I will hear the "maybe one day I'll get to.." comments occasionally from younger people tethered with kids and jobs etc. But not too much.

Family. Since our kids have been taken on some of these great journeys, not really much other than an occasional "you're spending all that money.." comments.

We've worked hard budgeted for it and are going to travel until we can't!

Jealous af

I have a lot of friends who travel a lot. I also have a lot of friends and coworkers who do the same beach trip each year or have a lake house or beach house (Galveston). Nobody cares because we all think it's only our own business.

My family is good with it because they travel as well. My dad and mother in law have been to all the continents except Antarctica and all 50 states. My mom, who is 81, even traveled as a child from small town Louisiana to Chicago and California. I'd been to a dozen National Parks by age 10 in the 60s. Travel is a way of life for my family.

I think they are less concerned about the locations and more concerned about the orgies I travel to

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“Enjoy all that travel now! Not going to be able to do that if you have kids!”

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My son visited 14 states before he was 2. I always laughed when people said that to us before we had him.

My family thinks I’m crazy. My dad is 64 and probably won’t ever leave Louisiana again. Half his family is just like that. They may take on 5 day trip to Orange Beach, but that’s about it.

I get the “must be nice” a lot. And a lot of “I guess that’s why my insurance is going up” (own an insurance agency).

But, most of them have been working in chem plants since they were 18 and have been making $100k+ for years with great retirement and benefits, so they could easily travel as much as me, but they just chose not to.

I feel like half my wife's family has never been on a plane. A lot of them are very rural and the thought of leaving Louisiana or getting a plane is frightening as hell.