Upper Middle Class not well travelled AIBU?

I would agree with you, but not sure if I'd take much issue with it. I feel that upper middle classes seem more sociable than other people. Holidays always revolve around friends, and they seem to have couple / family friends. I know a few who holiday a lot but in a very rigid way. I also know many WC or MC people who are very set in their ways holiday wise too.

Where I live there are a lot of upper MC people who have holiday homes in a particular coastal village and many have small boats there too. Dh works with a lot of them. They rush out of work on a long weekend to go to their holiday home and spend the whole weekend socialising with each other, eating in the same restaurants and then spend the rest of the year talking about the amazing time they had in this village doing what sounds like exactly the same thing over with the same people. I must be missing something but it sounds boring to me but they seem very happy about it so good on them.

Yes they do … so ski in same place and summer hols in same place … usually French/swiss alps and South of France …

OR Whistler and the Bahamas… depending on how rich they are 😆

I do remember my DD saying her flatmate had nothing to talk about AA they went to the same hotel in Spain every year. I think if you just do this it’s missing out on wonderful things you could see and do. I don’t get this bit people like familiarity.

Spot on @User7989776 this is exactly it

I don't know what class l would be considered as we never talk about class in lreland but we have gone back to the same places regularly. There are certain advantages. As soon as you arrive you can hit the ground running and enjoy all your favourite spots without scrambling to discover where everything is. We had a holiday home for years and just loved the area and the children all had their favourite activities and cafes etc. We have sold that but now the kids are grown we have our pet places abroad where we head regularly. We both travelled a lot when we were young and loved it but equally love having our special spots. I can totally understand the sense of belonging that comes from making a place a home from home.

Kids tend to enjoy returning to familiar places rather than constant change. Sometimes it’s a simple case of going to places you know the whole family enjoys.

What a bizarre thread built on a very odd premise that people who don’t conform to the op’s notions are, by definition, wrong.
It must be very tiring monitoring other people’s choices and then getting your knickers in a twist about them.
I suggest that you holiday as you see fit and extend other people the same courtesy.

What about the non UMC people who go to the same campsite or holiday park every year?

People of all classes like familiarity, routine and holidays they know will meet their needs.

So you are unreasonable or not,
So then what? Are you going to tell them off? Stage a protest? Report them to the authorities? What now?

I have travelled a lot, including living in 7 countries on 3 continents. I now rarely go somewhere new, because I know what I like and have seen enough to know what I don't. I have a lovely home, holiday needs to be better than staying home so I go where I know it will be reliably excellent. If you asked me where I've been on holiday in the last couple of years you would also think I wasn't well-travelled.

PILs have been to the same Caribbean island at least 15 times and so have their friends. They also go back to a part of France at any opportunity, which, considering they live in the US, isn’t an easy trip.

Not sure what “class” they are, but they’re late 50s and prioritise comfort over adventure / trying something completely new.

I’m the complete opposite. I’ve been all over and still have so much of the world I want to see. So much. I’m only in my 30s though, so that may change with age.

Every year for the first ten years of my life we went to the same hotel in Torquay. I don’t think social status had anything to do with it.

I'd rather find places I like and return to them, I think. When you spend more time in the same handful of places, you have the chance to know them on more than the surface level, which some might find more meaningful than ticking countries or cities off a list or constantly exploring somewhere new. It's just a matter of preference.

Surely it depends on what you want to get out of your holiday - if it’s to do an activity you enjoy and get some rest and relaxation from day to day life then going somewhere you know well and already enjoy makes it easier.

Those people aren’t leaving the country to ‘travel’ - they are leaving to have a break.

I once got stuck in a taxi with some distinctly UMC people, all aged around 30. They had intimate knowledge of the ski resorts they visited each winter and the eastern Provençal coast, but were clueless about the UK. They had 'Home Counties geography' - everything north of Oxford is an homogeneous mass, very far away. They'd never considered visiting anywhere like Wales and were surprised when I said it has spectacular scenery. They'd heard of the Lake District but thought it was just a big lake.

They said they never think about where places are. They fly there, holiday, fly back. They didn't see any point to 'travelling', as in exploring and looking around. They seemed bright and educated, but weirdly incurious. Admittedly it was only a sample of four! I hope I successfully inspired them to hop in a car for a long weekend - they were discussing it when they got out of the cab.

I'm the same as u but each to their own, I guess...

To be honest, they are repeat visitors to the best places.
They can afford to see some different cultures but some of those places are dangerous, dirty and too crowded.

They get to choose.

They choose family and friends and relaxing.

Often people explore and adventure in their early 20s then settle down to more comfortable, less expensive holidays.

... whereas it's morally and culturally satisfying to spend your evenings sneering at the topics other people choose to discuss online 👍 It must be very tiring monitoring other people's posts and getting your knickers in a twist about them.

You realize people have different preferences right?

Someone's the way we act like must all "go abroad', not really

As long as they are doing what they want rather than what people expect of them and they r happy, leave them alone and enjoy your trips abroad.

@Tabbytiger122, you're not allowed to find anything interesting or ask about other people's take on it 😂 If you're posting on a forum, you must be 'judging' and probably looking down on everyone who lives life differently to you. And this makes you wrong. So very, very wrong that numerous people have to comment on how wrong you are. Do you feel chastised? Repentant? Will you desist from writing anything online ever again, lest you be judged for judging even if you weren't?!

I increasingly feel that half the world's forgotten how to have a conversation, they can only manage snidey little battles. Thank god we don't have to go out for a drink with them!

Dh and I could afford more exotic holidays but with young children we just wanted to blob on a sun lounger after a long year. We went to the US when they were in infants as my sister lived over there for a while and even that was hard work.

We also travelled extensively in our 20s, so we had already seen a fair bit of the world already.

They are teenagers now and we are off to Asia.

People do what works for them I suppose. A PP has given some very helpful insight into the "forming connections" part of it. My PIL were well off (FIL was proper public school posh) and they went to the same 3 places in rotation - their UK holiday home on the coast, a specific area of France they loved and a specific part of the US where MIL had family.

It's easy to think, oh they have so much money, surely they are wasting it going to the same place every time, if I had that budget I would want to go to x and y and z. But if it's what they want to do, it's what they want to do. I earn a good salary (not UMC) and I have a friend who earns even more. I was a bit shocked when I realised because she rarely goes on holiday and when she does it's usually the same place in Wales, rarely abroad. She says she can't face the hassle especially as she has teen kids and stepkids (she travelled a fair bit in her 20s so isn't incurious). Whereas I love holidays and exploring new places, cultures, landscapes etc. I prioritise holidays/travelling above many other things. Neither of us is wrong, we are just different.

Oh god, read a book. Or at least Google.