To feel that people who constantly travel are just running from their problems?

I absolutely do not travel to escape. I do it to see new places,eat different food, hear different languages, have ew experiences. It will be a comfort to me when I’m old that I have seen a fair amount of this planet while I’ve been here.

I think there's an element of everyday life being quite bleugh, especially when DC are young! Wake up, work out, school run, work, making dinner (make sure it's healthy!), tidy house, rinse and repeat - definitely the right things to be doing but hardly fun! When we travel I'm not so much deluding myself that it doesn't all exist, I'm rewarding myself for sticking to the plan!

I'm in my 50s & we travel a lot. This year I've been away 6 times. I detest resorts / beach holidays so never tempted by them. We work in the arts & our trips have been to attend & participate in very specific events. Not all of them relate to our specific medium but they're all of interest.

My interests are art, performance, literature, theatre, music, food & history & we travel to experience these things in other places.

They are our main expenditure apart from mortgage / education. Our dc have come with us on 90% of our trips & have been lucky enough to have also experienced many incredible cultural opportunities. For us it's the one of the greatest things we can do & it immeasurably enriches our lives.
Curiosity is the core of living well for me ; I hope to never lose it.

@BluntGoldPoster , I would presume from your post that your miffed with someone in particular.

Does putting a negative spin on it make it more palatable for you because you can't do it?

I think that staying in one tiny place for most of the year is bad for your mental health.

There is a big world on there.

I don't see it as going on holiday. I see it as seeing the world. Which is normal

I do see where you’re coming from and don’t think it’s as preposterous as some others here seem to!

’where ever you go, there you are.’ I think there are many who don’t realise this and do ‘travel’ to escape. Others might also move jobs, move cities, move friend groups, relationships etc. in a pattern.

As PP have suggested, this comes across as being about a specific person..

Someone you are jealous of perhaps?

No I don't think so. Sime people are naturally more adventurous, restless, curious about the world.

I think I know what you mean…when I was (much) younger, I planned gap years abroad and longer backpacking holidays because I couldn’t quite work out life and hadn’t really found happiness or my path yet. But I guess it’s different for those who just enjoy frequent weekends away or short-ish trips.

I think it's one of the best ways to spend money , why buy fancy things that are meaningless when you can travel the world . I think anyone that travels a lot has the right idea they are living and experiencing new things where as someone else might be buying a nice handbag and spending money on a night out or a spa day ... I know which I would rather . Cant afford either but if I could 😂

I think that's fair.

Well, I've done both. In some cases, I went somewhere for a holiday, decided I liked it, and decided to see if I could find a way of living there via working or studying. I originally came to the UK as a tourist, for instance, and decided to apply to postgraduate degrees in England, and stayed on to live for years -- my son is London-born. I don't think it's an either/or situation. The world is a big place. Why would you restrict yourself to whatever small bit you happen to have been born in?

We retired early and travel about 6 months of the year. Sometimes it's in the UK. Other times it's abroad, different countries, different people, culture and food. Sometimes it's weekends other times a week or 6 weeks. Not escaping anything happy to be home, happy to travel. It's why we retired to take advantage of such opportunities.

I'm not sure why you would think we are running away from anything. Feel free to ask questions if that would help clarify (or not) your opinion.

All life is reality. How sad to think that only the drudgery is real and everything else is escapism.

Are you jealous? I know I can be jealous of people travelling all the time. I wish I had the money and the freedom!

When I travel I’m often running away from the weather and from work. But it’s more about running to beautiful places and enriching experiences. How odd to think this is a bad thing.

The only reality I want to escape is the Scottish weather. What's so wrong with that?

What do you mean by "realities"? Is everyone supposed to be stuck at home in a 3-bed semi with a couple of kids? Why is that lifestyle any more real than anything else?

YABU - the people I know who travel most frequently are very organised and have no problems to run away from.

Other people in other countries/cultures lives are reality? Do you think only your little corner of the globe is 'real' and authentic? What a strange view. I am most 'real' when travelling - spending time with my family sharing experiences. Your post is very odd.

YABU. That's a very cynical perspective and too much of a sweeping generalisation to hold much water.

Erm no, just living our best lives.

I think if you live and work in a different country it’s different, you are actually participating in a new culture and not being a forever tourist.

I did the whole travelling thing in my 20s, kept thinking about planning the next place on the list. Until it got to the point I realised I was being this sort of passive consumer. I was going to watch other people doing and building stuff without doing and building anything myself.

I wasn’t trekking undiscovered jungle, I was going to the same places and getting the same pictures as everyone else. Everyone gains status by talking about all their travels. Now I’m not really fussed by travel and if I do it’s to places that I know people who can show me around.

I think that with climate change and over tourism, tourism is going to become passé. Much like adopting poor foreign children or teenagers volunteering to dig a well in Uganda.

I've had five holidays this year, three of those have been short trips and we've done the jobs we should be doing before we go.
We genuinely enjoy travelling and that's what we enjoy spending our money on