Travel Affordability Debate
The cluster discusses the relative costs of travel, particularly how international trips to low-cost destinations like Asia or Thailand can be cheaper than staying in expensive Western cities, with debates on barriers like passports and accommodations.
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travel might still be cheaper, no?
You should travel a little, even if virtually ;) $100/yr is a lot of money for millions of people.
Travel is cheap if you're not doing it the five star hotel way :-)
go to a low cost country. that money is plenty in parts of asia, middle east etc.
travel is cheap but you should sleep somewhere and that's expensive.
Oh sure, like you can just do that if you're out of money. (/sarcasm) It costs money and time to get a passport, fly out, have a destination that will accept you, figure out security for yourself, etc. Plus, you're making it harder for the existing people there to keep prices low.
Well, at those prices, what's keeping you from flying to another country, getting stuff done there and going back again?
Take a trip for a month, you've earned it. Go somewhere cheap and interesting.
> so expensive it's cheaper for people to fly out of the country, pay for accommodation and even some spending money... and even a few years of college tuition or a small mortgage ...
Travel can be very expensive. It can also be very cheap. It might be nicer to fly from point A to B but odds are there is a cheaper bus ticket available. A 4 star hotel is very nice to stay at but a 0 star hostel will often cost you less than $15 a day. Working in a bar will easily cover that, your food(buying cheap from local sources and cooking for yourself), and allow you to save for your next bus/boat ticket or where absolutely needed a short haul flight.