Travel

Thoughts on travel.   Travel is fun, exhausting, educational, relaxing, cultural, etc.  It's also EXPENSIVE.  If you can afford to travel on a plane, you are a wealthy person.  If you can afford to travel internationally on a plane, stay in accommodations, and feed yourself in Europe, you're extremely wealthy.  Not everyone has that luxury to afford international travel.  Not everyone can afford the time off work, the plane ticket, the hotel costs, and everything that goes along with traveling.  So consider yourself wealthy if international travel, or any travel, is part of your "hobbies".  Because that makes you an elite class of citizen who can afford to do those things.  If you have a trust fund, you're wealthy.  If you have ever lived in a gated community, you're wealthy.  If you don't have student loans, you're wealthy.  If you own a home, you're wealthy.  If you can change your situation easily, you're wealthy.  You have the luxury to decide what to do, where to work, when to work.  I am tired of people who can literally afford a lifestyle that isn't paycheck to paycheck complaining about how they can't afford things and need to scrimp and pinch.  Do you own a home?  Can you pay your bills?  Can you save money each month?  Then you're rich.  So stop telling people you are watching a budget.