Quoting Rick Moen <rick@???>:

> Quoting Jamey Fletcher (jamey@???):

>> Quoting Rick Moen <rick@???>:

>> I dunno about you, but I would certainly consider $340-500 a "very
>> expensive luxury".

> I suppose it's a matter of perspective. I often encounter fellow
> Americans who assume it would be far cheaper to go on holiday for five
> days to a domestic city (e.g., San Francisco, NYC) than to five days in
> Amsterdam, because they never bothered to look up how much food and
> lodging costs in SF and NYC relative to Amsterdam. (Answer: much more
> expensive. See also: Miami, Santa Barbara, Boston, Honolulu.)

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> (I suspect mostly, though, it's just a convoluted way of saying 'This is
> unfamiliar, and I'd rather stay home. Which, fair enough.)

No, it's because I'm po' - they done repossessed my r and my other o. To
be fair, I'm not quite *that* poor - but $350+expenses for five days in
Amsterdam ($75 a day, I expect?) is pretty much my discretionary spending
for several months gone, and I've been trying to use that to pay down my
various debts. Just the flight alone is half my monthly rent.