Yes

Yes.

Is it in any way financially responsible?

Absolutely not.

Day trips yes, including overnight costs then that’s gotta be saved up for.

ability to take time away from work without pay

Tell me you’re a US American without telling me that you’re a US American

I certainly have the means and the vacation days. But work is really hard to get away from for long. I’ve been (mostly) unplugged since Wednesday and it’s been amazing. Friday was a legit vacation day and I spent it driving half way back home from a trip to Orlando. I’m about to roll out of bed and plug everything in and be back at it again.

I was hired about three months ago because my boss is stretched too thin, but I’m still learning everything so for the time being we are both stretched too thin. Eventually, hopefully we will enable each other to take vacations. I have one scheduled for April regardless. I think we’re going to Mexico, but frankly where we go isn’t as important to me as beautiful surroundings, good food, and leaving the kids at home.

I’m retired, so yeah, time off work isn’t an issue. We get away pretty regularly, domestically and internationally. I guess about two months a year, in aggregate, on average?

domestic kinda, international not at all

I do not have the ability to take time from work without pay. However, I work for a non-profit University health system, and I get 7 set holidays, 20 vacation days, and 7 personal days. So, 34 paid days off work per year.

Now that my kids are grown, I find myself being forced to take time off because I’m hitting the limit (use it or lose it).

However, I don’t generally like to travel all that much.

No.

I can’t even afford a bus ticket and I haven’t been on a plane since before 9/11/2001.

The last travel I did was three years ago when we took my elderly dog to the beach one last time, and that was only about an hour and a half drive. It was a purposefully special occasion to get him to the beach one last time. Honestly, I’d probably trade never traveling again just to have him back. Miss you, Jack.

I have 6 weeks off work with pay. 5 weeks is the minimum here though.

I just don’t have the desire to travel so I just spend time at home doing stuff that I feel needs doing, and chill

Sure. Living in Germany I fly at least once a year to a not so far destination for vacation. Mostly flights with a duration around the 2 hour mark within Europe that cost around 400 Euros (flight home being included)

Since I’m in Bavaria I can hop into my car and be in Austria or northern Italy in a few hours. I could take the bus to Prague or a train to Paris and have done all that in the past. (Although not quite as often as I want to)

Trips to other cities within Germany by train are even easier and cheaper thanks to the Germany Train ticket. Most expensive is often the accommodation.

However I wasn’t outside of Europe for quite some time and I‘d have to save up for quite some time if would want to go to another continent.

Yes.

I haven’t flown in four years. Even longer since I flew for a vacation.

Me and the Mrs work remote. We have 25 days of PTO each, but often extend our vacations as workations. We have two dogs to bring along, hence we avoid flying.

We had a sailboat that we’d spend four months of the year on. Hitting four different countries in one season.

We now have a toddler that takes too much time and focus for sailing, so we’ve traded the sailboat for a caravan/travel trailer. We’ve only had it one season, but did about 4000km. Spent nights in 9 different towns.

They say vacationing with kids is just parenting without the home field advantage. Towing your vacation home evens the advantage out a bit, at least.

I have paid time off I can use and national holidays (though, frankly, not enough of either).

With a good rail network, domestic travel is cake. Wife and I popped up a couple of prefectures to spend a couple of days and see a hockey game. We had a wonderful time.

International, however, is becoming harder with the JPY falling against the USD. It makes imported things, including fuel, more expensive taking more money as well as the exchange rate issue in the target country.

Not regularly because, you know, we work, but we could if we wanted to. easyJet and RyanAir have several times gotten me from and to the continent for less than 50 pounds! About two months ago I went back to France to get some documents, all in one day and a little over 40 pounds in total. 👍

I have 25 days of paid vacation paid a lot compared to living costs. I don’t like travelling, but I sometimes do to meet people.

I occasionally get paid to travel to oddball countries for work, was fun the first few times but it’s just a chore now.