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Re:Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World by leojg on Monday June 06, 2016 @02:03PM (#11848838)
I'm trying to do it, and I make less than 18k a year(lovely third world country :)).. and manage to save about 5k in a couple of years.

And no, you don't abstain of having fun or having "nice things" And no, you don't travel the world as a beggar.

Most north american people just expend too much in things they dont need.

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Re:Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World by nhangen on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:45PM (#11852267)
Your last statement is exactly the kind of reasoning that I'm arguing against. Besides being an absurd generalization, it's also not necessarily true, at least if you're conflating needs and wants, which I suspect is what you're doing here.
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