Rich people don't understand us

Alright then, where should I travel? A three hour drive in your average car costs 20$. There and back is 40$. A ticket to any state at least three states away Is 400-500$ on the cheapest airline (aka: Spirit Airlines). Don't even ask about buses and trains because those always cost exactly the same as driving. Driving three states away is 250$ there and back. If you make minimum wage (7$ in most states) and work part time (29 hrs a week) you make around 800$ a month. Even shady motels cost 50$ a night (minimum). Sleeping in your car, or even on the street, can get you fined or arrested in most states. This doesn't even include the cost of food, or to see any cool sightseeing you'd want to do. Therefore, it would cost half of your monthly salary just to get anywhere, and the other half to get back. Seeing as most of us can't live with mummy and daddy, I would literally have to live under a bridge and eat shit just to be able to afford to fly (or drive) to anywhere farther than 3 hours.

Trust me, I've done the math. I want to be able to travel as much as the next guy, but it costs money. And anyone who has the money to travel doesn't have the time. If you have some magical solution to this, by all means let me know.

Coughs* parents *coughs* sugar daddy *coughs* sugar mommy

Gotta pay the bills somehow amirite?

there are many options to travel with less money, by foot or hitchhiking. Couchsurfing is free and hostels are cheap, you have to cut down on comfort and open yourself to other people, then you can travel pretty cheap ;)

Couch surfing? Also hostels don't exist in the USA I'm pretty sure.

Yeah hostels aren't a thing here in the US, and I don't have enough friends/relatives to bunk with. Also I'm a woman so hitchhiking is not the right idea, and if I went by foot or bike I wouldn't have time to get a job. So I'd have to be a homeless drifter. I do like the idea of being a sugar baby. Who wants to pay me to be a terrible girlfriend?

Yeah couch surfing isn't always gonna be free and it sure as hell isn't gonna be safe

Sugar baby it is

I'm up for that, we can be sugar twins

I'm male but I'm willing to make this sugar triplets.

that's why this post says you need courage to travel. Go on Hostelworld theres definitely hostels in the US maybe not in all parts. And maybe couchsurfing isn't totally free (you should at least prepare some food for your host) but you will need so much less money than a hotel. If you're just searching for excuses not to travel ok, i dont care but its definitely possible to travel cheap. Good thing about hostels is, you'll meet so many people because you sleep in a dorm and so on. Hotels you have more privacy but the price is crazy. Traveling is amazing ;)

There aren't enough hostels to go anywhere. Again, suggest me somewhere travel. Go ahead, give me a suggestion

You also need great health to travel frequently
And courage won't help that
Except if you see death as help them yea, it is totally gonna work

I've travelled South America for half a year and theres hostels evrywhere and theyre like 10bucks a night mostly with breakfast. You sure need a budget for that (took me about 7000 bucks including flights from and back to europe). Yes you should be healthy if you travel although i traveled egypt for 2 months with a problem on my foot which made walking really hard, still worked ;) but i wouldn't suggest traveling if you have a physical problem. You don't need to go anywhere, in the nice places there'll be hostels ;) if you wanna go somewhere cheap, go to south east asia, except for the flight its really cheap like 5bucks for a hostel. Never been traveling the states so I cant tell you, if i would i'd definitely go to Oregon and Cali, Arizona and Colorado too i guess ;)

See now, youre just proving my point. The only way I could possibly get 7,000 dollars would be to either be homeless or prostitute myself. I mean how the hell did you get 7,000 dollars

First of all, he said 7,000 for SIX MONTHS (which is just over $1,000 a month, and just UNDER $300 a week!) Second of all, how old are you @Caqrl ? I am not saying EVERYONE can afford to travel ALL THE TIME. When I was a broke college student, then no, I couldn't. But I graduated and got a job (not even a great wage), and started saving. It is about priorities. On average, families spend $1200 a year on cable, and $3,000 a year at restaurants, and at least $1,000 a year on phones. Not to mention everything else like netflix, gaming, shopping, expensive car leases, etc. So are they too broke to travel? NO! They choose to spend thousands of dollars on other luxuries.

To those parent & sugar daddy comments: I am an independent person. I choose not to do most "typical" American luxuries. My husband and I don't have cable, we have very basic smart phone plans, we only go out to eat about once a month. Instead, we spent those thousands of dollars on small trips to see family and a big trip to Europe. When we did travel, we did AirBnB and a hostel and economy plane and train rides. Affordable, not luxury things. But we got to see 11 cities in 4 countries.

Can you go to new countries every couple months or even just once a year? Probably not. But if travel is something you really want to do, than it is completely possible to go to different amazing countries every couple of years. And a bunch of closer cool places as well.

I'm also out of college, I have a degree but no debt (I cheated the system but that's a story for another day). I also have no cable and very basic data plan. I have no debt. Now for real, all of these people calling us sugar babies out, suggest me somewhere to go.

Go ahead, where should I go

I got the money by stopping to smoke (weed and cigarettes) and saved for like 2 years i guess, i also worked full time but then i quit my job and went out to travel with a huge backpack and a one way ticket to Colombia.