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

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

Sounds wonderful. I’d do the same if I had your holidays. Make the most of them!

Both my parents were teachers and we would be away from home for the whole summer holidays. Grandparents' house for some of it and holiday away for some. Neither I nor my sibling liked not seeing our friends during the summer holidays and would really have liked to be home for some of the time!

Depends what you do there. Academics esp those on the higher grades can spend v.liitle time there and certainly since the pandemic they can use Teams. I work at a Uni (user facing)and know staff from other ones. Having months off yet be still working is a great perk. Even better if you live in Europe and teach part of the week.

At least 3 months I'd guess

At least 3 months I'd guess

Most dc don't get 3 months off school...

They do need the time to deep clean the drawing room.

Yes we do that, we go abroad to stay with family so we only have our flight to pay, and it works out cheaper than 6 weeks of camps for the kids. Family looks after the kids and we both work remotely.

The people I know that do it are all mothers originally from other countries work term-time but salary is spread over the year (SNAs, a teacher and a uni lecturer) so all travel home for most of the 8-9 weeks are closed. They 2 this for a couple of reasons, to give their children exposure to their other language and culture, to build relationships with extended family and they all feel it actually works out cheaper for them than entertaining and feeding the kids here for the summer. Weather is usually better too

My self-employed friend does it. She’s an online counsellor working with corporate clients suffering burn out. Her DC are in private school so have a long summer break. Her DH is a farmer so pops out when he can.

I'm recently retired and could go away for the summer if I wanted to, but why go away when the weather is fine here? Going away for the winter, though, is something I am seriously planning.

I get the impression this is either the ultra rich or those who have friends/family or their own accommodation in other countries who don’t have to pay

The only ones I know who do this are couples who are both teachers or retired people.

My father had his own business and pretty much worked about 8 months of the year. Mother was a homemaker and we had a pad in Spain, so we tended to summer out there. We ended up with our own friend base etc but It does get a little tedious so by the time I was 13 ish we did mix up the destinations quite a bit. Even then, after a month or so, wherever we went, I just wanted to come home and hang out with my school friends for a bit, so its not all it’s cracked up to be. I think at least twice, flights were even rearranged and we came home early because everyone was done with it.

In our case it’s the school summer holidays, so 6-7 weeks.
We spend the summer in Spain because we have family there. We rent a villa for 6 weeks. DH and I both work remotely and ‘tag team’ with the kids, and also have my family there to help with childcare.

We do this, we have a holiday home at the coast. We tend to spend the majority of the school
holidays there, Christmas, Easter, summer etc. I work part time and can work remotely but also use AL, and my DH travels back and forth for work. We love it and appreciate how lucky we are.

• sahp
• teachers, lecturers, professors, schools admin, schools leadership
• freelance people
• people on short term contract who do not take any contract over summer
• people who can work from home
• people who take unpaid parental leave - in the uk it mandatory to grant each parent 4 weeks per child of unpaid parental leave per year

all summer in the uk normally means the 6/7 weeks of school holidays, but ppl without kids can take from june till September

I think it’s a bit overrated 😀it does sound great spending few weeks in a lovely French village, I mean we could totally do it as we wfh and can afford it but the summer is the best thing about the UK. I know it can be sh1t but we live by the sea so it’s the only time we can take advantage of the seaside and hopefully a nice weather. We’re already booked for 4 weeks away. It’s the time to have bbqs and socialise with friends etc I love the summer even if it’s the uk. We try to go away somewhere hot in winter.

We do it. Partner is French. We have a house in France. He can work wherever there is a decent internet connection. I’m a SAHP. We leave the last day of term and return the first weekend of September.

We did 3 weeks in Portugal , 2 weeks in Greece 5 days in Disneyland Paris one year . We are just a normal working couple . I had all my leave and my partner had to take 3 weeks of unpaid parental leave

I do. I’m a single parent and have mostly done home swaps. I can work remotely.

Usually children with foreign parents. Take from here, spend and be part of community there.

We are both professors. We spend the summer in my husband's home country where we have a house. It's good to spend time with our parents (we visit mine too) and for my son to speak the language and spend time with his cousins. This year, actually, we aren't going for quite so long as my son wants to be part of a summer swim team here and go away to a stay-away camp. As he gets older, I imagine going away for the summer won't be quite so easy. (We are also in the US, so have long summer holidays. My son's school finishes early June and they don't return until the beginning of September.

We do this. 5-6 weeks over the summer. DH is not British by birth so we fly to his home country. We have a family villa there. Self catering, fights and cost of living eg groceries etc is cheaper there.
He works remotely, I work term time only.
Growing up I spent summers in France, parents were teachers and paternal grandparents were French.

We used to know teachers who went to France for the whole summer but they were camping.

Take what from here?
And won’t they be spending money and being part of the community here in autumn, winter and spring?
Anyway we’re all British but still spend the whole summer holidays in Spain.