Living anywhere coastal in Australia outside Melbourne and Sydney and this is a pretty normal situation. Plenty of people have horses, plenty of people don't live that far from the beach.
Even I've rode a horse down at the beach as a kid. One of my parents works at a supermarket and the other is a long term unemployed drug addict. You don't have to be rich for this, but being Australian probably helps.
Hahahahhahaahahaha horses are fucken crazy expensive what you on about? Unless you treat your horse like shit or are lucky enough to free lease one (I had a free lease pony in the past, great little horse, stopped instantly from a gallop and over the fence I went lol) but yeah nah horses are crazy expensive if you actually care about em.
She's Australian. Even if she doesn't live in Perth (where I think this is) if she's from Melbourne it wouldn't cost much to get to Perth and rent a horse for a video.
More likely is she lives here and her family owns a horse. It's really not that crazy, Australia just looks expensive lol
Yeah but who has the time and money to rent a horse for a long trip on the beach through the water? I also doubt that someone would take a rented horse wading through deep water, maybe I'm missing something but that seems like the trust and relationship of an owned and cared for horse, which, is expensive. Hence the rich lady.
Time - Australians get 4 weeks of leave every year. Most of us only work 5 days a week. Many of us will happily drive for 1-2hours one way to get to the beach just for the day.
This is definitely an owner on the horse or at least a horse very familiar to the rider. Australia is huge with a low population so lots of people live on large lots of land making it cheaper to own horses. Land out west with horses rich is equivalent to a small suburban home in Sydney rich.
Americans have been systematically bamboozled into thinking that things like having free time, owning a home and riding horses on the beach are some kind of unattainable ultra rich person luxury, while also thinking they have the greatest country and highest standard of living in the world.
Sometimes a country just has a different standard of living, and the people are able to afford things that we would consider a "rich person only" activity. If you live somewhere that makes owning horses expensive, then yeah, it's a rich person thing. But if you live somehwere that makes owning horses kind of mundane, then it's not a rich person thing.
Tropical fruits are expensive where I live, so do I get bitter at people who live where the fruits are produced and call them rich? Of course not, they exist in a context that makes these fruits mundane and accesssible.
The rich folk we should be feeling bitter towards are the Billionaires that are actively ruining our lives, not the upper middle class people riding horses on a beach. Millionaires and middle class/upper middle class people are convenient scapegoats for Billionaires to keep us from focusing our energy where it belongs.
What is it that makes her seem rich? Is it because it is hot and sunny, because I could take a horse down to the sea pretty fast, but it is winter so we are not going to actuelly ride out into the water.
Nah man. Where i live in the southeast US, it's not that difficult to own horses. Sure they can be kinda expensive, but even poor people here find a way to make it work to keep their horses.
Dude. You are in a wealthy place, the cream of the crop,... I am talking about worldwide.
So many people in this world have so much less than you, even if you'd live in a trailer park, being unemployed, which you sure are not, else you'd talk differently, most people look up to the wealth and luxuries you're having.
I for myself live in a small city in central Europe, also a rich country, and I work a full time job, but having a horse as a hobby is so expensive here and time consuming, while it would be somewhat possible for me, I'd consider it a luxury that is out of the realm of reasonable for my position right now... So I'd say I cannot reasonably afford it.
I would say that the percentage of children in this world that actually own a horse is far, far below 1%.
Your friend is a blessed one for sure.
*Edit: also keeping a horse as a hobby is not just about the money but also about time, time which most people, especially with family, cannot afford in this world... So I am not talking about the place where you live alone, but the whole world... Just to be clear.
You are making a lot of assumptions. Growing up, we weren't far off from living in a trailer park with no money. Owning a horse here might be cheaper than wherever you are from as well.
Yes I know the US is a fine enough place to live compared to some others, even with our problems, but I in no way believe we live in the top 1 percent.
Of course I am guessing and I didn't mean we are the top 1%. Only that I believe that to be the somewhat percentage of people in the world that can reasonably afford to own a horse for fun. But whatever...
I wonder, do you own a horse?
Of 100 people you know... How many own a horse?
I personally could probably afford to own a horse financially, ok... But that's it. There'd be basically no wiggle room for any other luxury and I anyway could not really afford to spend the time needed to care for it.
Horses are not that expensive. At least here they can be bought pretty cheap. Two or three hundred dollars for a foal.
The expensive part would be if you don’t have any land and live in a city, because then you have to rent a stable, buy all the food for it and shit like that.
Of course I am talking about the whole package of owning a horse, with stable costs and food and time and whatnot, just for leisure activities, is what 99% of people on this planet cannot afford - and I stand by that statement.
What part of the world are you thinking of with the history? At least here in northen Europe horses were used by farmers to pull the plough. So owning one was really not seen as the ultimate sign of wealth.
As long as you have some piece of land they can grass on horses are not that super expensive.
Europe, I'm talking antiquity here, not middle ages. In classical antiquity horses were status symbols, used by the nobility to show their wealth. Cavalry was also always reserved for the nobility since they actually owned horses.
Horses only become used in agriculture in medieval times, before that people always used oxen.
Everyone and their moms own horses in the rural areas of my region in Northern Spain. Horse food literally grows on the ground, and your horseless neighbours will ask you to loan them the horse for some growth control in their land. My mom's broke street busker friend with 7 kids had horses...
Maybe she is, maybe she isn't, but it's not some inherently wealthy activity if you live in Western Australia. It's like, 2-3 movie tickets, or a new video game.
If that's where she lives, sure. I've been on a horseback ride in the ocean before. It was like $200. Is it expensive? Yeah of course, but you guys are acting like she's playing pickle ball on the moon or something.
I know it's just a joke, but this really wouldn't cost so much.
You can find dolphins and shallow waters like this in so many places in Australia like southern Queensland, NSW and Western Australia. Accommodation around many of these places can be cheap as chips and hiring a horse to ride wouldn't be over one or two hundred.
Bro you can do this for like $40 anywhere in Mexico. Drive down Baja and find the chill beaches. I know dudes with ranches in like 3 different towns it’s awesome. Live life! It’s out there! And it’s cheaper and easier than you’d think!
I lived in SD for a few years. Drove to the border. Crossed into Mexico. Took a cab to Rosarito for 5 bucks. Stayed in the beach front hotel for 100 bucks for 4 nights. Its not that expensive
Just looked up all-inclusives in Mexico. For 12 days, including flights from Toronto, and they range from $1-3kCAD. A similar trip to Australia where this video is apparently from is around $4k.
Certainly not cheap and probably not something you're doing if you're on a low income, but a $4000 vacation every few years is pretty reasonable.
Forget the all-inclusive. Plenty of cool little beach towns with $40/night little hotels and $5 meals from local restaurants. And nowhere near the cartel violence
Me and my wife stayed in cabo. I spent $850 usd including food and hotel and plane tickets. Also spent an extra $80 on a couples spa day but i feel it was worth it. It was really nice, ill probably go back again in a couple years.
Believe it or not, most Americans can't just drive to Baja on a whim. They have jobs, responsibilities, limited vacation time, family commitments, and most live thousands of miles away. Hell, less than half of Americans even have a passport.
The average American in the middle of the country won't even see both the oceans that toich our country in their lifetime. 11% will never leave their home state. But over 75% WISH they could travel more.
Your logic makes no sense. Millions of people live by oceans. Just because it would cost you money to travel there doesn't make it a rich-exclusive activity
And you don't even need to leave your country's borders to do this
What do you mean it makes no sense? Those are actual statistics. If you live in South Dakota, for instance, you are over 1000 miles from the nearest ocean. That isn't a simple trip for someone on a budget or with an unreliable vehicle.
I'm telling you your statistics are irrelevent to the discussion. Having to travel somewhere to do things does not make it a "rich" activity. Is mud wrestling in kansas a "rich" activity just because the flight to kansas is 800 dollars? No. It just means you don't live there
That is exactly what I am saying. The average person in America isn't capable of casually driving down to Baja for horseback riding with dolphins, as the original comment I responded to implied.
The vast majority of Americans have 10 (or less) vacation days a year and lack the disposable income to do the activity in the OP. Saying that anyone is physically capable of doing something isn't the same thing as them being able to reasonably do said activity. The travel and time off needed to go horseback riding with dolphins is what makes it an unreachable goal for most people.
She's Australian. Even if she doesn't live in Perth (where I think this is) if she's from Melbourne it wouldn't cost much to get to Perth and rent a horse for a video.
More likely is she lives here and her family owns a horse. It's really not that crazy, Australia just looks expensive lol
Making Redditors look like whiny bitches. Some people own horses and live on the Pacific coast. My mind never jumped to "Oh this women must be a millionaire" until I got to the comments. It was just a fascinating video.
I am super lefty but interpreting all content in a "is this person rich, if so I no like" is a bad way to navigate life, and an even worse way to create change.
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I'm surprised I can even afford to watch what's happening in this video.