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Originally Posted by Sliver
Yeah, I'm not sure if people always did this or I'm just more aware of it with Facebook, but holy crap are people every mortgaging their futures for a couple weeks in a tropical vacation on a way-too frequent basis. Cheap-ass Mexico is one thing, but that's not where people are going.
Time off from work spent with family/friends relaxing in town or even a snowboarding vacation or something in Banff is basically as therapeutic as a $10,000 vacation to somewhere warmer. We are not all entitled to a visit to the tropics, people. If you're rich or come from family money, have at it. But if you're slogging away in your 9 to 5 I'm sorry, you can't afford the thousands a year to treat the world as your playground.
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I quite like traveling and have made it a priority in my life. I certainly don't think that I am mortgaging my future to pay for it.
As for tuition, the vast majority of students go to school in the city that their parents live in. If you work for minimum wage 40 hours a week in the summers and 15 hours a week during the rest of the year you would make $11000 a year and pay almost no tax on that money. That is more than enough to pay for your tuition, books and have some money left over for entertainment. The key is that you have to eat at home and take public transit everywhere. It is a different story for those who have to move away to go to school of course but they are the minority and maybe their parents can spend some of the thousands that they saved by not buying a house in a large urban center.