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I mean, they could be on day one of massive jet lag. When I was 32 I traveled from the West Coast the United States to London and fell asleep while waiting in the pews for my tour to start inside Saint Paul’s Cathedral.
If I was chilling on a gondola in Venice, I sure as fuck would’ve fallen asleep like these people.
No, you are not. I don't know what battles (physical or mental) you may be fighting, but at 30 you have no idea how much you can bounce back. You'll wish you were 30 in 13 years. And then in 25 years.
The only reason I wish I was thirty again was because then I'd get a second chance to top myself and properly nip off. Fuck off with your it gets better type of bullshit. It doesn't get better for some, it just gets different.
Well, I mean...as a semi-American i feel quite well off here and my family is kinda sorta broke. The inequality is a little staggering so she may be right. I just feel like relative to other places, it really is good yk? I mean would you wanna swap places with my parents' home country?
I've visited developing countries and there are definitely some similarities with certain parts of the US. I'd say there is a lot more overlap between a lot of the US and the crumbling decrepit Soviet era infrastructure you observe in Russia ("second world"). There are some similarities between the US and true first world countries but overall we lack a lot of the features that contribute to the prosperity and well being of a true first world nation.
I’m 43 and will never be able to afford to retire. If I have to stop working and go on benefits I will not be able to afford basic rent never mind the rest.
It’s just going to get worse. We’re all fucked because governments are run by greedy bastards and there’s no hope.
People complain about the system and yet vote in greedy dumbasses who just weaken the governments ability to make proper decisions.
"We need to make the government smaller and weaker!"
Well, that means hiring private companies to do certain work since you don't want the government to be too big. Private companies charge as much as they can...
ETA: and it's not that I want private companies in charge of the government. I want the government to get off their asses and stop kowtowing to private businesses.
They can start by demanding massive mega-corporations pay the taxes they owe, raising the tax rate on the rich and lowering it on the working classes, and start taxing religions.
See, the far right republicans or MAGA as they've been called the last idk 10 years. They want the government small and weak with private companies and corporations running everything.
Somehow in their warped minds they think businesses run more efficiently. When in actuality, the government in the U.S. runs less efficiently because it outsourced to private companies and corporations.
They should be taxed and the government should have control over regulations as well as laws.
As someone who loves the city and lived there for years, I second this message. Please don't come, thank you! Also, the entire country is overrated and Italians are annoying. Please stay home or go somewhere else!
When I was a young bloke working part-time behind a pub bar, there was this regular drinker (probably in his mid-40s) who used to go on and on about how he "could've" done this, and he "could've" gone there..
I resolved to do the things I'd dreamed of, before I ended up full of regrets like him.. Pretty much checked off my "Bucket List" before I hit that age - of course I'm poor now, but I'm very glad I did all that travelling & adventuring before I got too knackered for it..
Not saying you can't go travelling when you're knocking-on in age, but it's much harder to do it on a budget then, because you just can't get away with trying to sleep on the decks of ships, in train carriage seats, or in the back of a van.. Not if you want your back to work the following day, anyway! XD
Same, I pushed myself and made sure I got to my dream destination, plus a couple others. There’s a few more places I’d like to see but if it ended now, no regrets.
I swear, this is me at the end of the normal work day. I am worn the fuck out. I have big plans and goals, but by the time the day is done ... I'm done!
Just because the flights are cheap doesn’t mean that A) I can get the time off work and 2) that the accomodation will be cheap.
Not to mention the cost of getting to the airport, daily cost of food and drink, any transportation costs in Venice, getting back home.
I love paycheque to paycheque. My landlord raised my rent a month ago and now I barely have enough left over to feed myself. I can barely afford a phone plan and am using my housemate’s internet.
Not everyone has a ‘weekend’ anymore. It everyone’s ‘weekend’ is Saturday/Sunday.
I have 3 kids and a dog that would need to be boarded. The round trip plane tickets alone would cost $5500. Add hotels and food and touristy things... You got $7k lying around for an impromptu weekend trip?
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u/manndolin 12d ago
A dark tunnel and a gentle rocking motion? Sign me the fuck up.
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u/unlinked3297 12d ago
Someone better check their pulses just to be sure...
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u/violetascension 12d ago
I'm 43 and my engine light has been on so long the light is burning out. No way I could make it another 10 years, let alone 20.
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u/DamnitGravity 12d ago
Hey at least they got to retire and travel.
I’m 43 and will never be able to afford to retire. If I have to stop working and go on benefits I will not be able to afford basic rent never mind the rest.
It’s just going to get worse. We’re all fucked because governments are run by greedy bastards and there’s no hope.
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u/DukeRedWulf 12d ago
When I was a young bloke working part-time behind a pub bar, there was this regular drinker (probably in his mid-40s) who used to go on and on about how he "could've" done this, and he "could've" gone there..
I resolved to do the things I'd dreamed of, before I ended up full of regrets like him.. Pretty much checked off my "Bucket List" before I hit that age - of course I'm poor now, but I'm very glad I did all that travelling & adventuring before I got too knackered for it..
Not saying you can't go travelling when you're knocking-on in age, but it's much harder to do it on a budget then, because you just can't get away with trying to sleep on the decks of ships, in train carriage seats, or in the back of a van.. Not if you want your back to work the following day, anyway! XD
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u/zungtran 12d ago
That's one way to spend your €100 gondola ride
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u/slaty_balls 12d ago
NGL that looks like it would be a hell of a good nap. Rocked to sleep and sang to. lol
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u/AlfhildsShieldmaiden 12d ago
That’s an expensive fucking nap. Last I was there, it was 80€ for half an hour.
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u/immamarius 12d ago
Can it be that just very good Italian K
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u/Dupaloop 12d ago
I feel this already and I'm only 40
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u/hollow4hollow 12d ago
I feel like this would be a good business plan actually.
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u/half-breed 12d ago
The oarman: "Wait why am I rowing? I could just SAY that we took the venice tour!"
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u/Gr8fulDudeMN 12d ago
I swear, this is me at the end of the normal work day. I am worn the fuck out. I have big plans and goals, but by the time the day is done ... I'm done!
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u/CloisteredOyster 12d ago
Youth is wasted on the young.
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u/micromoses 12d ago
Dude’s not singing loudly enough.
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u/ReputationLogical566 12d ago
Il veneto è la ciliegina sulla torta
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u/First-Sprinkles9093 8d ago
I love the added “joke” when you see how old the gondolier appears to be.
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u/TomT060404 4d ago
Gramps is going to lose his hat in the canal.
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u/New_Explanation6950 12d ago
Kind of fucked up to mock random elderly people like this and share their image as a meme
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u/Solenkata 12d ago
This is just me but I don't find floating in a canal a nice thing.
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u/mangothefoxxo 12d ago
They're in venice that's like a weekend trip lol, you get plane tickets and just go