Those statistics don’t surprise me. ~ Half of workers live paycheck to paycheck. About half of the jobs in the US are breadwinner jobs that would provide the means to take a vacation.
People in third world countries don’t take vacations. Ain’t Free Trade and gloBULLism great?
I'd say that many now vacation in their own back yard and take day trips or just go camping.
Of course it was the good old days....no phone...no TV.....
We drove 25 miles to a campsite and everyone was happy. The fun was fighting with the tent and our little boys really enjoyed watering the trees.
Given that definition, I’ve never had a vacation in my adult life.
Try 12 years, my vacation is a 6 hr round trip to my SILs for 6 hrs at Thanksgiving.
Almost the other half are government employees of one sort or another, so they get paid holidays AND vacations (at our expense).
Just too darned busy at work. No opportunity to get away for more than a long weekend here and there. My last day off was to take wife to the doctor. The next time I’ll be out of the office more than two days will be for a business trip.
Not me.. I’m at that point in life where time off is far more important. 28 months to retirement and I take vacations 2 - 3 times a year and a day off here and there. Still have the max carry over on the books as back up and when I leave work every day.. I leave work and bring nothing home.
I haven’t taken a vacation since 1994.
I have recently started taken a few hours off during the week to do some recreation and it is making a big difference in attitude.
But like so many these days, I will probably die at my desk. Retirement went away about 3/4 of the way through the Obama administration.
So, he changed my life.
Almost 27 years for me, excluding 4-day weekends.. Wore myself out traveling throughout Europe. No place I’d rather be than home..!
And now the Summer of Recovery, 7th Edition Attempt, is almost over.
1981 - 34 years and am not proud or lying. Almost every day off over three decades spent caring for sick/dying relatives. Have paid a high price physically, mentally, financially. Do *not* do this; take better care.
One of those Americans is NOT Obama.
40% are on permanent vacation.
Pray America is waking
I would suppose the purpose of a vacation is to go places you have never been, see sites you’d not seen, to get away from your family, things of that nature.
Our vacations consisted of visiting relatives, even our honeymoon was such a visit. Hubby’s class reunion was the month before our wedding, in Niagara Falls, NY, his brother lives around 30 miles away. So that was our Honeymoon.
They closest we came to a ‘real’ vacation was his 70 year old birthday class reunion in Las Vegas.
Other wise all we do is go see relatives. He has it figured to the relative how many nights we can stay, if we go to his brothers, we stop at my sister’s, his nephews, and then his brothers. 1 night in a motel room.
I don’t call that a vacation, I call it visiting relatives.
A 4 day weekend is my vacation. I might take a real vacation about once every 4.
Ha. Months? Months? 8 years for my family.
“A vacation was defined in the survey as a week off of work to a place at least 100 miles away from home.”
By this definition I haven’t had one...wait no that wasn’t a week.......no that was at home......hmmm.......well it’s been a long time to meet that definition.
As far as a vacation where you toake the family somewhere you’ve not been before, get hotels, eat out etc. and stay for a week or more, I’ve had exactly two. The last one was an easy 10 years ago.
I won an award at work and it came with money to take a weekend trip anywhere in the country. I managed to take 10 days with the family on that money by driving and camping.
We take a week off at Christmas to spend with family since I had to move away for work a few years ago.
I also lead a Trail Life USA troop and generally take a few days off to lead them at summer camp.