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It’s so weird seeing almost 500 upvotes on a post like this on lemmy where, based on comments, like 90% of it’s users can barely afford rent, let alone going on vacation and staying at a place that offers breakfast.

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I would expect most lemmings, like myself, to have spent more time in company-paid hotel rooms than vacation hotel rooms

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I think that’s a very strange assumption.

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Can confirm.

Source: I think last time I paid for a hotel myself was 2009. I have no idea how many nights I’ve spent on company expense since then, but it must be in the hundreds.

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3 points

That sounds horrible

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Bold assumption but it checks out for me. It is based on lemmy being so tech heavy?

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Young-leaning and tech heavy. In my case I’m trades rather than tech, but the result is the same: company has work they need done out of town, so I end up in a hotel

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25 points

“You can’t be struggling if you’ve stayed in a hotel before.”

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23 points

We remember those placer from when we were kids though.

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I haven’t been on a holiday since I was a kid, but I remember these hotel breakfasts.

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There are also people outside of america. In my country i could afford to go on a week-long vacation every year in europe with basically a minimum-wage salary if that is what i want to prioritize in life.

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7 points

Could it be possible that these are different groups of people? Lemmy has like 70,000 monthly users now.

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45k according to fedidb, but I don’t know how accurate that one is.

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I don’t believe that. There is no way Lemmy is that poor on average

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I mean, I travel for work a lot and have to stay weeks in hotels. And weeks means weekends, so yeah I can relate. There’s a lot of people I meet around the world that travel like me and wouldn’t be able to afford those same hotels for a vacation… like me lol

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Oh it’s just the usual people that complain that they can’t afford anything but somehow they’ve visited 35 countries so far in their life and are planning their next trip to add one more to the list.

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Well I mean, the majority of hotels don’t even serve free breakfast anymore once they realized they could get away with not having it or making it a paid thing. This used to be common a while ago, when I’m sure Lemmy users used to be taken on vacations by their parents.

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Pretty sure there are more than 10% of Europeans on this site.

Not everything is as dystopian as the US.

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Lemmings only like to pretend to be poor.

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