How Much Will You Pay to Travel

Page Turner from has written 99 comments

Mom I love where we live in this small village of 300 BUT I would not care if we moved every 6 months to a new location if that was what your dad wanted to do. My Mother and I followed my dad around the USA during World War 2 and I lived every place imaginable, even in a college dorm once for a summer. Went to different schools. It was great. New landscape, new weather, new friends to be made and old friends to keep in contact with. I loved it. We have lived 9 different places in our 57 years and even spent a few summers at a camp ground when our kids were teenagers. Andy did a mean square dance in bare feet on Saturday evenings. When we travel I always call the motel or hotel of destination home for the night and My Aunt Katy says it is no surprise Andy travels as he inherited a little hobo blood from me she thinks. It might be nice to live at Cape Cod for a year if I was younger.

john from has written 84 comments

The problem is I haven't figured out a way to be worth as much as I am where I am at. In other words, I make a good deal of money, but I can only make it where I am at. It isn't that I wouldn't like to be somewhere else, but where I want to go doesn't want me. It is all about supply and demand. I am in demand here, but not there, so I stay here.

Patt from has written 2 comments

It's true that ppl don't live on their budget and don't save money for travel. They usually have long plan for travel after retried when they have money from company or government. Some time it's too late because their healthy is not support themself to travel. Travel is not mean you have to go overboard or extream trip. Travel is going to somewhere, with someone, some environment, your budget that you like. I think it's just do thing that is not disturb yourself, another life and another environment. If you earn 10,000 U$ per day, I stay at five star hotel 100 U$ per day or guest house 10 U$. It's not mean you are stupid for five star hotel or guest house, but depend on how much do you welling to pay and happy about that or not.

Andy, After I follow up your website about a year. Sometime you see world/place/ppl only one dimension and speak it out suddenly like you eyes connect to you mounth, not brain/heart path. A few days next, the same topic was post in two dimension when you see something or talk to some one.

In a year, How many time do you post about where do you want to stay for retried life?
your single status (with many word freedom, no man land, flirt girl, not married etc eveybody know you against lover/married/serious relationship. You are alone not because you can't fine the girl that you want but maybe you are leftoff person who no girl want any long relationship, just flash light)

"People do not live anywhere they want, they live where they find a husband or wife, the option to travel is removed because their mate refuses to leave home."
This is only one dimension of thinking and unadult. (This is why you feel young all the time, coz your brain never growth with your age... how old is your brain?) Underlining, it's refer to your 40 years ago before start travel. What's happen and Why do you still hurt yourself and another with those experience? if they want find a husband/wife and live there, it's not mean they live where they want? and if their mate want to move but another one never or can't help/can't which any seriously reason /make really bad dicision/choice without responsibility. who's stupid, their mate or another one?

Last point, girl/boy from third world or developing or poor country or prostitude is bad if they marry with developing country ppl? Everybody want to live in good environment and they try their best way. Developing country ppl leave their country to stay/buy land/do business etc in un/developing country because their money is stronger than local about 5-10 times. With their they are nothing money in their country. They move to poor country, then they compain, point to, sucking many thing in poor country. Can I call them "Developing country prostitude"?

Asiabill from has written 258 comments

Good Realistic Post! I've always considered such reasoning as you have explained the ONLY three reason people CHOOSE to live their lives ANYWHERE are:
1) Climate / geography
2 ) Friends and Family
3 ) Career Opportunities, Job, Best place to get ahead financially meaning easiet place to SAVE or increase one's net worth

I could easily live in a variety of locations in Indonesia, the Philippines ( although I've spent most of the time between Manila and Boracay Island ) , a variety of locations in the Mediterranean countries and Portugal. The Baltic coastline is also very appealing at least between Mid May and Mid September. Lately Hawaii is growing on me and maybe 10 years from now, the FREE University of Hawaii education for Seniors and Hawaii's social medicine seems VERY appealing. Previously I'd NEVER consider growing old anywhere in the USA but HAWAII is AS GOOD as it gets. Perfect climate, mellow, caring residents where random acts of kindness is a daily experience and the mixed racial culturally diverse population makes us feel like we're "at Home".

Hi Andy,

as I have traveled the whole world like you, but not as a hobo, the best place to live is Montevideo for me. Another wonderful city is Brisbane, Australia, but the distance is too big when I need to return to my children and grandchildren in Germany....

Asiabill from has written 258 comments

Sorry failed to answer your question on amount of my preferred travel budget. If I'm alone I choose cheaper accommodations like hostel bedspaces when in Northern Europe at U$20 / bed more or less ( U$600 / month easy to maintain while "on the road" for many weeks or months ) . I've slept in my vehicle many times while driving across the USA or sofa surfed while visiting friends. In most other countries I prefer privately owned small local hotels and guest houses with daily rates from U$2.50 ( Sulawesi, Inodnesia, some parts of India ) up to U$30 MAX preferring a median rate of U$8 to U$12 / night.

Now when I travel with my wife, ( though we have both slept in our vehicle many nights ) usually choose to pay the lower end of market value, for example in the States or Europe U$40 to U$100 with a median rate of U$60+ often Sunday thru Thursday specials with some discounted coupon. And when is S.E. Asia we choose U$15 to U$30 / night accommodations. Lately we are considering spending some of leter years in Hawaii but instead of buying a house where the median is U$650,000 ( monthly mortgages around U$3000 ) we'd prefer staying in 3 star hotel rooms with kitchens at a weekly or monthly discounted rate allowing us the freedom to change islands and locations and make frequent trips internationally without the burden of a house payment.