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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I mentioned before, trips is the big one. Of the links above, the non-students are spending $2-3000 per year on trips.
Our parents never took trips every year, and I don't think they took many trips before they were married.
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Garbage.
Buying a hippy van and traveling across north America or backpacking abroad are not new things for young people. Almost a half a million people attended Woodstock alone ffs.
The mode of travel may be different, as airplane flights are likely cheaper. However, $400 in 1970 is equivalent to $2500 now. Are you saying young people back then didn't spend a few hundred a year on travel or equivalent expenses?
Once again, the only thing that's changed is that young people work longer hours, need more education, spend more money on education, and have less buying power as they spend more money on basic needs.... And real estate is ridiculously expensive.