Who are these people that go away for the summer, like the whole summer

[GingerPussInBoots]

You know the ones that will be like yes I’m spending in the summer in France, Italy or Spain or whatever

In my experience, either two working parents stagger generous annual leave, so the children are at the destination all summer, but the parents tag team, or, alternatively, one is a SAHP, or they can work remotely. A friend is a therapist who goes fully remote every year for two months.

Or around here, people have family houses on the coast, only an hour or hour and a half away by road, and grandparents and siblings’ families are thrown into the mix. Commuting a couple of days a week is possible.

My sister is a teacher. They used to go away the whole six weeks and my BiL joined them at the weekends. This was in the 00s so I imagine it’s more common now that many people can and do work remotely.

My friend does most of the summer away. Either with her parents who live somewhere great to visit and have large house or parents holiday house on south coast. Also involves wider family/siblings/cousin.

In my experience,

Wealthy people with second homes in the other place and a SAHP. Working parent joins them for weekends/as available.

Ex-pat families/mixed nationality families, parent with the overseas passport saves up their A/L and takes the kids to stay with family in home country for an extended visit over the summer.

I think it's easier nowadays with more hybrid and remote working.

Me! No kids, freelance. I try to take 8-12 weeks of holiday a year including the whole summer 😎(I’m not what MN would consider a high earner either, I just choose to have a tiny cheap flat to have more money for travel)

The friends I have that do that are both teachers (married to each other, two kids).

How long would you need to go away for to be considered going to x for “the summer”
4 weeks ?
6 weeks ?
2 months
3 months ?

like what would you class it’s as ?

We travelled for years to my native country with the children most of the summer hols as my husband is a teacher and I substituted as a nurse.
We wouldn't have been able to afford 'real holidays' as we could use a family cabin and cook.
The children benefitted from spending time with my family and practising their second language.

Do you work during that time away ? What work do you do and where do you go ? Do you get bored there ? Or do you travel around there ?

I assume that they own or have access to a holiday home for the whole 6 weeks and do a job that can be done fully remotely or they are self employed so can control their volume of work.
I don’t know anyone where the whole family is away for 6/7 weeks but I know people who split it between grandparents, parents tag teaming and the uncles /aunts with cousins so the working adults get away with only having to take 2 weeks off.

In the 90s my grandparents has a chalet on the east coast. We'd be there all summer by the sea and my mum and both sets of grandparents would take 2 weeks each caring for us.

My dad came for 2 nights max out of those 6 weeks. But he was self employed and needed to work (and also to have freedom to shag his affair partner, but that's a different rabbit hole and not for this thread)

Big salaries, family money & additional homes in different parts of the world. Lucky lot!

Actaully I think that’s relevant, as perhaps that give him the opportunity ?

I wonder how many of the people who are working remotely have looked into the legalities of what they are doing.

saltburns for me thinking about this btw 😂😂

Well, no he did it anyway. He was just able to go out and about with her in the 6 weeks without fear of being caught by mum.

The only people we know who do it are teachers who own holiday homes, one couple have a home in Italy, another couple of families have homes in France. It's not just Summer, they always go away for a couple of weeks at Christmas and Easter too, and usually half terms. They're basically never in the UK except during term time.

What a shit

Actually a teacher who I know on fb but not well in rl, school mum chum posts stories every single day for the whole 6 weeks
the same videos of the beach

i actually take a break as it gets tedious after a while just a beach video of the sea every single day

So how long then? How many weeks ?

Teachers

In the movie saltburn, where was saltburn suposse to be located ?

I've got clients who are self employed/freelance, but they tend to properly live abroad these days and only commute back to the UK for specific meetings etc where they stay in Air BNBs or Travel Lodge type places.

Most moved abroad to escape IR35 when it's scope was extended a few years ago to avoid the punitive tax and double NIC. IR35 doesn't apply to non residents!

Several live in Portugal, France and Spain, a couple live in Isle of Man, but I've also a few genuine "digital nomads" who don't actually "live" anywhere but just move around the Globe to wherever takes their fancy (with an eye on the calendar to ensure they don't inadvertently find themselves "tax resident" in any specific country - a bit like how pop stars plan their World tours to avoid paying tax on tour profits anywhere!).

I know very few teachers with a salary cut for that.