• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My parents weren’t super wealthy or anything. We were middle class. My dad was a professor, my mom was a psychotherapist (actually, she was in grad school for that for some of my childhood). We took vacations. We went to Italy, we went to the UK, we went around the country, trips to Arizona, Colorado, Washington D.C.

    We try to take my daughter on vacations, but we can barely afford to travel within the U.S. and even there, it’s probably only going to be a couple of days just because of hotel costs. We live in Indiana, but my daughter was born in L.A. 14 years ago. We moved away when she was 2 and she’s wanted to go back and see where she was born for years, but we can’t afford it.