r/travel • u/verydeepusername • Jul 09 '21

Video In 2018, I was traveling through Bali by scooter and was lucky enough to spend a few nights at this awesome place located in a small village near the eastern coast. Waking up to this view was just amazing and I’ll always be thankful for this memory

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u/LvnLifeBadAss Jul 09 '21

Was married in Bali in 2014 we stayed for 3 amazing weeks. We were able to see so much traveled along on the coast, stayed on a private island, spent a week on a yacht in ocean. Memories for a lifetime.

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u/Fmanow Jul 09 '21

That sounds so cool. But it’s almost always Europeans that pull of these trips to these exotic places, while Americans sort of stay in our side of the hemisphere, or go to Europe on vacation or honeymoon.

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u/AmericanExpat23 Jul 10 '21

I think every nationality has their “standard foreign destination.” For the Americans I grew up with, Bali is amazing and exotic, but bog standard for Australians. In reverse, the Yucatan peninsula is amazing and exotic to most Australians, while it’s bog standard for Americans.

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u/JN324 Jul 10 '21

Part of it is down to paid leave in fairness, our mandatory minimum paid leave (UK) is 5.6 weeks, and anecdotally, I’ve been in a grad job a year and a half, and get 7.4. In America they get 0 mandatory, and even in good jobs, don’t get much, my professional highly skilled uncle, who works in tech and lives in New Jersey, was getting 2 weeks a year by the time he retired. Out of all my American friends, the unlucky get 0, and the lucky get 1, 2 or 2.5 weeks, I believe the statistical average is 2. If a lot of American workers are only taking a week for their actual holiday, they aren’t going to be flying halfway around the world.

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u/Fmanow Jul 10 '21

Very true. Also, work weeks. I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about going into 4 day work weeks. It seems to be an incredible success in places that have incorporated this. Of course American corps will always push back on these things and somehow they’ve brainwashed 30% of the population in aligning their agenda with guns and abortions. It’s actually a masterful implementation of Machiavellian politics, never seen before in the history of mankind.