Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
it's batshit crazy to think you can't take a weekend vacation a month or you're living beyond your means. i'm not talking extravagant, multi week. i'm talking packing up the family and spending two days a couple states over. i'm talking being able to go to state football games every month when you live more than 4 hours away. it's really not a ridiculous quality of life to ask for.
It's batshit crazy to think a weekend vacation a month is an entitlement or else society is dysfunctional. If you really care about travel and want to devote 5% of your income to it (probably twice as high a percentage as the average budget) and make Mississippi's median income of $45,000, that's about $2,250 a year. That's not a ton, but that's enough for a decent week vacation or several small vacations. I'd love for the median income family to be able to have more consumption, but I don't know where the expectation comes from. Outside of families that do a lot of primitive camping, has it ever been common to take a weekend trip every month for anybody but the very affluent?