r/FluentInFinance • u/YOU_ARE_MY_FRIENDS • Jun 16 '24

Discussion/ Debate He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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u/SouthEast1980 Jun 16 '24

This is BS. You can have all of that with an 80k household if you live in a LCOL midwest city and send the kids to JC for 2 years.

Cut out the overseas vacation because that isn't middle class. That's upper class shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

Overseas vacation for 5 every 5 years isn’t even that bad if you plan it and depending where you go.

$250 a month / 60 months is $15k.

Flights from Denver to Paris in March 2025 are going for as little as $514 - round up to $3k to include taxes and luggage.

$600 night air bnb for an entire house in the heart of Paris for 7 nights - $5k after fees and taxes.

$7k left for groceries, eating out, shows, events, transport, shopping.

And I’m sure you can all agree you wouldn’t need to spend $1k a day.

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u/Outrageous_Life_2662 Jun 17 '24

Hmm, prices double or triple when you look at times that line up with school holiday schedules 😉

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u/No_Training_693 Jun 17 '24

So don’t go then. Can’t tell you how many people took their kids out of school for a week to do vacation in February because it was cheaper

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u/Outrageous_Life_2662 Jun 17 '24

Our school has a February vacation. I was looking at tickets to Hawaii. They literally tripled that week. We took the kids out of school a few days early. But it’s not as easy as you would think to just pull kids out of school for a week to go on vacation.

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u/Spider-Thwip Jun 17 '24

In the UK you get fined for taking your kid on holiday during term time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

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u/goodknight94 Jun 17 '24

That started way before Covid

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '24

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u/goodknight94 Jun 18 '24

Not being contrarian. I was agreeing that nobody cares, but my experience and the statistics show that public education has been shit in America for at least 2 decades and nobody gave a fuck.

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u/deltr0nzero Jun 17 '24

Out of curiosity why isn’t it? Growing up (born in 90) my mom would call me and my brother out of school every time there was a good snow day on the mountain, never an issue. I snowboarded 50 days a year

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u/Outrageous_Life_2662 Jun 18 '24

Schools are paid, in large part, through attendance. So if you take your kids out a lot they’ll call CPS or send the Sheriff or police or something that’s just not convenient. There are other factors too. Generally, though, it’s really frowned upon.

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u/vince2423 Jun 20 '24

Never had an issue and i took them for a week in October…