For the vast majority of you, long travel is required to get to somewhere you can backpack. And the the gear and foodstuffs is expensive also. And judging by the damages to the environment that some inconsiderate people leave these days, I’m not sure that you should be allowed to. (I’m getting sick and tired of picking up garbage and hauling it out of the forest I live in).
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Rooskie91@discuss.online 4 weeks agoYou can travel without spending a lot of money, people call it backpacking.
bluewing@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“Backpacking” can also mean couch surfing and staying in hostels or on park benches. In the early 2000’s, it was a really popular way to travel across Europe (at least among rich white college kids)
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Is hostels still a thing for young people?
I wonder if AirBnB destroyed that industry. I saw a “hostel” in my city but it was charging $70 a night. When I was growing up, hostels were like $20-30 a night, cheaper than a motel 6.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Afaik, they’re still around, but inflation and popularity has caused the prices to increase a fair bit.
The_v@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Or be in a religious cult like Mormons. Of course they will send you to a foreign country and confiscate your passport until your 1.5-2 years are over.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Do they really confiscate your passport?!
Holy shit thats what Dubai employers do to keep their servants enslaved!
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
Time off is expensive
saigot@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
It’s unclear what countries this poll includes, having minimum paid leave is the law in most of the world. There’s also quite a few careers that involve forced time off.
gdog05@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In the US you have just enough time off to be sick a couple of times a year. (If you’re lucky)
saigot@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yep alongside
RarePossum@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
College educated US women iirc. I found the source at some point
IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you live at home or are technically homeless it doesn’t really matter. If you can save up a bit and have a charismatic personality you can go far, especially if you’re willing to pick up shitty temporary jobs in places where you go. I had a friend who would do this all the time and periodically return home to work at a reliable job while living with a friend, save up more, then fly off to somewhere for a few months.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I love camping, I usually do it under bridges and in gutters.
frickineh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“Fun” fact, this is actually why my mom has no interest in camping as an adult. Her family was homeless a lot when she was a kid and her mom disguised it as a fun extended camping trip. The kids bought it for the most part, because the family really did camp for fun, and they were used to fishing for dinner and things, but she said as she got older, she realized things like the month long trip in November were because they lost their housing.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
Maybe, though that lifestyle is very unconducive to relationships generally.
IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think my friend would disagree. Like I said, with charisma you can go far and my friend had nothing if not charisma
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Depends how you typically live