Are the days of cheap travel permanently over?
The days of cheap anything are over, everything is 50% more expensive since the wu flu.
>>2836281Not if you go to Appalachia!
>>2836284Has nothing to do with COVID. It was the America and the West going full retard over Russia that did it.
>>2836292You're on 4chan. This is a white supremacist site. They can't comprehend a world where Russia and China are dominant powers.
>>2836292Lmao, russia didn't invade jewkraine until 2022, by then inflation around the world was already spiking.>>2836295I mean china got away with releasing a bioweapon on the whole world.
>>2836281even if fares have gone up a bit recently travel is still almost as cheap as it has ever beenprevious generations had to save up for ages to go on holidaynow i can go from one side of europe to the other for a few hours' pay, if that, and i can go to cities across the continent for short trips multiple times a year
>>2836281500 USD is a good median marker for one-way tickets to the other side of the world. I paid 410 USD for my 19 hr itinerary from Raleigh to Mumbai. If I booked in early November, I could've paid $347. That's for a 13,500 km trip with a single 2 hour layover (no terminal or carrier change) and complimentary checked bag. 2.6 cents per kilometer and total fare under $500 qualifies as cheap travel in my book. My first overseas itinerary through the Philippines with Philippine Airlines cost $928 and covered 14000 km. This is not cheap travel, especially since I additionally spent $500 and four days traveling 1700 miles overland by train from my work location to the departure airport, LAX.
>>2836325I hate missing out on the random ridiculously cheap flights that pop up. I almost secured a 500 dollar flight from the US to New Zealand for a trip I'm doing in February but I stupidly decided to wait, only for it to fucking jump up to over 1000 dollars. Should have locked it in when I had the chance.
>>2836317Transport as a percentage of travel cost may have gone down, but accomodation as a percentage of travel cost has gone up tremendously. I averaged 61% of travel cost going toward accomodation in formerly cheap Lithuania, and this for the cheapest, most cramped private rooms.
Go be poor somewhere else.Stay in America and get a white wife.
>>2836287>America>cheap, ever
>>2836281roadtrips in europe are still remarkably cheap, esp eastern europe.
>>2836356Also America is plenty cheap if you avoid major cities for hotels, or car camp. Literally millions of acres of public land all over.
>>2836364And what is worthwhile in these places? What is the great experience or benefit of traveling cheap in American outskirts?
>>2836295>This is a white supremacist site.Rather odd considering the site is owned by an Asian and has jewish advertising.
>>2836364domestic flights are through the roof expensive. it's insane
>>2836367Having space to be alone and do your own thing away from other people, and not having to pay for it (the space, that is). You could also try Kazakhstan if you want that open space feeling. >>2836369I paid $108 for a 1500 mile domestic flight with Southwest, carry-on only. Departure date is less than three weeks away.
>>2836367Also, Americans assume that everyone has a car big enough to sleep in comfortably. I started with a half-width twin memory foam mattress pad (cut lengthwise and stacked). Then graduated to a twin mattress from a mattress store in Xalapa, Mexico that I took delivery of ten minutes before closing time after hurrying half an hour back to my van, which was parked near my hostel on the street. There are innumerable ways for costs to run up into the stratosphere in America, but if you manage to avoid ALL of them at once, you can live for less than $1000 per month, and live pretty well at that. I'm talking about living in the healthiest parts of the country.
>>2836363Cheap compared to what? Roadtripping Malaysia? Definitely not. Malaysia's gas prices are a third of Europe's.
