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Anonymous
how does /trv/ afford to /trv/?

I'm 2.5 years out of college (CompSci major but I mostly just do e-z SQL stuff now) and I make ~$50k a year. I spend $800 on rent, $525 on student loans $300 or so on other bills. I barely have money to go out with my GF on the weekends.

Sekrits?
>> Anonymous
Get a job that pays you to travel. That way you can see a lot of places for nothing.

Only drawback is it's more like checking boxes off a list than the /trv/ I used to do when I did it for fun.
>> Anonymous
>>12261
>Get a job that pays you to travel.
Like?
>> Anonymous
>>12264
Get a job at the State department
>> Anonymous
What I do, is deposit 50 bucks a week to my savings. Combine whatever comes from the tax return and off I go.
>> Anonymous
nothing else matters but travelling, so you either dont spend money on anything else or you ride a donkey to get there.
>> Anonymous
Once OP pays off his loans or becomes single getting the money to travel will be a cakewalk.
>> Anonymous
Get a job in the air force or the Navy.
>> Anonymous
Is $525 normal to pay per month on student loans? That sounds pretty expensive to me.
>> Anonymous
>>12277

Depends how extensive your student loans were. I'm guessing OP took out quite a bit.
>> Anonymous
don't do the tourist shit that is all packaged and artificial anyway. Plane tickets are the most expensive part of a trip, next housing, but I've stayed in $20/night hotels that are off the resort track and better than Motel 6 quality here in the US. For me, entertainment is the next expense (that's what I'm there for), then food.

Make connections with people where you're going-- find a friend of a friend of a friend who lives in or near a location and can help show you around/find a place to stay/show you the ropes while you're there. And if you're going to be some place for a while make friends and keep in touch so that you have connections when you make a return trip.

basically don't try to recreate home when you're abroad. that's what gets expensive.
>> Anonymous
student, parents pay stuff (yay for not amerikkkan)

haven't travelled much, but i pay for it by doing some vacationwork, passing college (if i pass, i get moneys) and saving from my allowance

on trips i go for cheap lodging (hostels) and cheap food (mostly due to not eating a lot of different foods)
>> Anonymous
>>12308
So, what you're really trying to say is.

Mum and dad'y pays for my trip abroad and I have no useful information to add to this conversation because I'm a rich kiddy who has not saved money, or worked for money to travel overseas.
>> Anonymous
>>12259

Lets see, your 2.5 years out of college. Computer science major and right now you earn about 50K per year. That is a nice amount of money to take home each year.

For example, lets compair yourself to me right now. Not because it serves anything usefull just that I'm bored and you can see how i save money.

Firstly, I make 50K Australian per year. Now that means, after HEC (student loan here in Australia). I take home about $1400 per foright night. Now I live in a small apartment here in Sydney that cost about $155 per week, did i say it was small?

So, $155 per week. I spend about oh lets say $100 a week on food. I own a car too, so lets throw in some fuel money. For the hell of it too, lets throw in ADSL account that is about oh lets see $70 per month. so its about $18.50 per week.

Per Week:
Rent: $155
Food: $100
Car : $50
ADSL: $17

So lets round it off, $400 per week would be my living cost. So, $800 per fort night. So I save about $600, or $300 per week.

Doesn't sound like much, its all about just watching where your money goes and saving.
>> Anonymous
I just learn to go without.

I'm a Uni student with a casual job (usually 1 or 2 shifts per week at minnimum wage). I get around $60/week from work and $200/week from the government. Next week will be my first ever overseas trip and the plane tickets alone set me back $1200.

Sure I have no food, but I'd rather starve than be stuck in AusFAILia.
>> Anonymous
>>12324

BAWWWWWWWWWWW I DON'T GET ENOUGH WELFARE IN THE MIDDLE CLASS WELFARE STATE

Have a sook, faggot
>> Anonymous
Is there any way you can reduce the amount you pay back monthly to your student loan?

Just here you can pay the smallest amount possible (Which takes much longer to eventually pay off of course).

That may give you some extra money to play with.

Either that or watch out for last minute deals - sometimes there are special offers that allow you cheap flights to certain destinations but you have to be ready to fly like the next day
>> Anonymous
hahahha op comes from land of fail. In ireland, a SUPERIOR country, education is FREE up to(and including) degree level. I'm doing the equivalent of compsci in my course, and i WONT have to pay anyone anything once i'm done! lololololololol
>> Anonymous
>>12334
Dirty potato nigger
>> Anonymous
If you can, get a job with an airline. It may differ from company to company, but at least some airlines give all their employees free flights anywhere. My roommate worked as a baggage handler for Air Canada late last year, and he could book free flights to any of their destinations, with one travel companion.
>> Anonymous
Live whit your parents and milkthem
>> Anonymous
Easy. I travel with my family, or I traveled BEFORE moving into a place with $1,250/month rent. (And in a fucking town where I can't find a roommate for the life of me.)

It's also good to make friends with people overseas; the only reason I've been to the UK is because I knew people who let me crash at their place. That's the same way I'm getting to see Prague next year: with my brother and his friend, who's moving to the Czech Republic.
>> Anonymous
so you're saying that your monthly expenses are ~$1700? i don't understand. when you multiply that by 12, it's only $20k. what are you doing with that other $30k?
>> Anonymous
>>12344
drugs
>> Anonymous
Live not in the US, where you only get one week's vacation a year.

Ausfags get 4 weeks a year vacation time, while Eurofags have even longer.

This year I am spending a week in Osaka, two weeks in Britain in July, and thinking about my annual visit to Tokyo in October, for a week.
>> Anonymous
>>12419
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