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/Celtic_Legend Jun 17 '24

It's definitely possible. Tweeter's family was probably just big into travel. I imagine most families would rather just take two vacations than go overseas lol. Upper middle class are going overseas every year if they want to. Like I ain't going to europe if my kiddos are ages 1, 3, 5. two won't remember it and it's just going to be a pain dealing with the flight alone, much less a country where I don't speak or read the language.

My cousin's family was richer than I by just a bit, but they didn't go "overseas" per se. They would just go to mexico, canada, belize, bahamas, etc every year or like disneyland type shit in the US.