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

People I know who might describe this send their kids to stay with grandparents at holiday homes while they work and go out to join occasionally.

Ugh, what a grim comment. You know they pay their taxes here, yeah?

My Aunt knew a colleague at the Uni where she worked and he only turned up the first day of term and then was "off sick with stress" in Cyprus!

I think the op was referring to people with kids. If you don’t have any you can go anywhere at anytime, pretty much.

In my office we work remotely 2 days a week. In the summer we all go back our native europeean countries ( Italy,France and Spain) and work from abroad. We stay with our families. Fairly common in south Europe for families tp regroup in the summer months.

one of the people i work for does this every summer but works remotely for 3 of the weeks . I am involved in researching hotels beforehand to ensure the family has everything they need there

Rich people.

We used to do this when our children were smaller - DH and I would travel to our home country for August.

I think it would be at least a month, maybe a bit more - we’d have time staying with both sets of grandparents, a week or so family holiday, and a week or so travelling round visiting friends.

DH would be able to work, or at least network a bit here and there. I was a sahm or working very part time before dc started school, so it wasn’t that hard to get the time off.

Now that I work full time too we tend to just take the DC to grandparents and leave them there to stay by themselves. We have a couple of weeks working overtime to clear the decks. They get to see all their cousins and aunties and uncles too.

But they don’t go for the whole summer now they are older, they have things they want to do here. And we have a week’s family holiday in whichever place we want, rather than always our home country.
It was lovely for the Dc while it lasted, but actually pretty strenuous for us - I don’t really miss it!

Many years ago now one of the school mums, an Italian, used to go with the two children the day after end of term to her family on the Amalfi Coast. They would return a few days before start of term, with the husband having visited them as and when he could.

I was always envious!

We use to go away for a month camping in S of France. 1 week travelling there and back and 3 weeks camping.

Both my parents were teachers.

Teachers with second homes (my parents in law)

very rich people with one parent who owns a business or is extremely senior and one SAH parent

I work TTO and can afford to go away for the whole summer, but my dh works long hours and the only reason I wouldn’t go is because of our dog. I wouldn’t put him in kennels and my dh couldn’t look after him. It is my plan to do it when we no longer have pets. I have thought about taking ddog with me and dc and getting the ferry to France or Spain but I worry it would be too hot for him.

I know some people who have a house on the coast and they’re all teachers.

I find your comment a bit strange and rude! The OP is asking about the term "going away the summer", it doesn't have to be with children.

I work from home a lot but I think there's rules about being in the UK, I don't intend to go abroad to work this summer so haven't checked. People I know who do this are teachers or work at uni - mainly camping across Europe.

We could probably afford to do this with some logistics at work, but I prefer to go away multiple times over the year for my mental health. I like chilling at home in the summer too.

OP didn’t specify people with kids. Many, many people without kids can’t go away whenever they like for however long they like - if you have a job that can’t be done remotely and won’t give you long chunks of time off, if you have pets, relatives you care for…plenty of reasons childfree people don’t all live that life

Not quite "the summer" but we are about to spend the whole of September in the south of France. We are academics and can usually work remotely outside term time and now our kids are in their early 20s, we thought we'd try this. We plan to work about half the time, so only about two weeks of actual holiday.

It's only costing about £2000 rental for a 4 bed townhouse for the whole month. We will drive our (electric) car there, so all in all not really an expensive summer holiday. Our kids and possibly some other family/friends will join us for part of the time.

And working here!

Yes it's an awful comment. And in fact if they are working here and holidaying somewhere else, it is more like giving here and taking there!

All I said was I think op is referring to people with children. Maybe I’m wrong but that was the impression I got. Not sure why that is rude. If anyone is rude it’s you calling my comment ‘rude and strange’

My husband was a university professor so he finished around June and didn’t have to be in for lectures till Sept. He was still technically ‘working’ over the summer months but it was research, writing articles and books etc which he could do anywhere there’s internet really. He got paid a salary so he earned just the same the months he didn’t actually ‘go into work’..

Self employed people who work it so they can have the summer off? Many people could do this.

My husbands boss goes away for maybe 4 weeks at a time, they have a holiday home in Spain. He's not crazy rich or anything, but kids all left home and they have a little house there so they make the most of it. Their business is all wfh, no office, so he works there as much as he can in the spring/summer/early autumn and just comes home for meetings. Not sure what his wife does but maybe retired or also wfh as she always seems to be there too. It looks a nice mix of the UK and somewhere warm, but maybe boring to do the same place all the time - I like to explore new places too much (and can't be away for that long).
I'd say 4 weeks min (mid July to mid august) to be classed as "summering"

Am an academic and could definitely go away for the whole summer - my colleagues do. However, I have school aged children so need childcare. Very jealous of everyone who has hands on grandparents.

Yes, we are academics but have only just decided to try working away for part of the summer this year now that the children are young adults. When they were younger I would rather just have a shorter, proper holiday without trying to take work with us. Plus it would be too expensive to do in July/August I think.

We go away for 4-5 weeks each summer to France in our motorhome. I work in a school so no issue with AL. Partner is self-employed so will do a limited amount of work whilst we’re away but business pretty much pauses for that time. We are by no means well off, but our total cost for the entire time we are away is c.£4k. If we were at home, there would be higher food bills, plus days out, holiday clubs etc, so we feel it’s quite reasonable.
The business takes a hit but we know we only have a limited number of years to do this with our son (10).

I am just so envious. In theory we could do it- DH is retired and I am freelance. My dream is to do a road trip all the way through Europe in the summer with the DCs, but DH has a stupidly expensive hobby that only really happens in the summer (sailing) so we are stuck mostly. I have gotten into the habit of taking the Dcs away for a few days at the start and at the end of the summer (usually Butlins or a holiday park) and then we have a family week abroad each year but I might expand it out a bit. There is no reason at all why we could not just go away for a few weeks without DH. This year we are going to see my family in Australia though so that will be a Big Trip. (16 days though).

Worked in education.
Never did six full weeks but did do majority of it away. Could afford it as work was not our only income stream. DH family had kept the great grandparents house with a few acres in the countryside. We did a combination of the family house, my relatives in America and also just one off destinations.