I’ll try to remember next time I book (I don’t travel so often) but realistically I will not respond to this thread ever again 😅

Edit: Doh, I’m dumb. I can play around with booking when I’m NOT planning to travel and clear cookies and use VPN and it won’t affect my decision to buy 🤦‍♂️

absolutely. Especially with how dynamically the tickets are priced there is no way to tell.

warning: tangent rant: I really like to shop around and maximize my time off, playing with arrival/departures. It seems if I play around with this for more than an hour, the prices jump up like $50-$100. I’ve started taking screenshots of fares when I start and end and yes, the prices increase. :(

look at it this way, necessities in USA are largely out of reach (health care, education, housing, funded retirement) and luxaries are easy to come by (phones, sneakers, branded clothing, streaming etc).

Whereas in Europe, the necessities are much more attainable for the population at any income bracket. Do you have much more “free cash”? No. Do you need it? No, you have a social safety net.

Even vacas in Europe are cheaper bc for an American to travel to Europe is very expensive by means of airplane. In Europe you can take a high speed train and be in any climate.

On the topic of trains, Public transit is more efficient there than it is to drive cars in the states. Imagine not having to buy a ~$30k car every 10 years? Not to mention fuel and maintain it.