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Old Sep 26, 2017, 08:42 PM
Shadix Shadix is offline
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Originally Posted by divine1966 View Post
Actually in my experience most young people don't travel as much internationally because many can't afford it or are busy with school or paying student loans off and pay rent or mortgage etc unless of course someone else finances their trips and their nice life style. Most people travel internationally when they are a bit older or if they have lucrative careers at young age, which isn't always the case. So I wouldn't worry about everyone goes overseas in young age. Many young people don't as it's very expensive. They still enjoy their life. So i wouldn't worry about it.
Yeah, this is what I always assumed was the case: when people are young they don't travel much because they don't have much money, then when they get older they travel more because they have more money. This is why I was very surprised when I came across people on travel forums asking if ages like 30, 27, even 25(!) were too old to travel. But apparently things are not like I thought at all. Most people who go traveling are actually in their early 20s. At this age people are still in school and get summers off, and it is also a thing where people take "gap years" after high school or college where they take a break and go travel. As people get into their late 20s, they have careers(like in my situation) and also many of them are starting to have kids.