Anonymous
10/6/2025, 2:36:55 PM
No.2830223
>>2830219
He's referring to the inability to take time off work to travel around China for a long time. A millionaire would presumably have little issue with that
>>2830104
Well, how do you find the time to travel for more than a week anywhere? The other anon covered some common ways, but you can also get a job there or nearby, be engaged in seasonal work, take a long time off work (maybe more difficult for Americans), be sent there on a business trip, etc...
The reality of the world is that adults with jobs don't have the free time to go travelling. You're either a wagie who can go away on week-long breaks three times a year or you have a special job that lets you go travelling to faraway places.
For comparison, adults in China with jobs get 4 weeks of state holidays (national day, Chinese new year, and labour day) and since they have to go back to their hometown for Chinese new year it's more like two weeks. Most Chinese people have never left the country unless they're very rich, and quite a lot don't leave the general area of the few provinces near them. For many of them going to Beijing or Shanghai is a dream that they can only do once every five years, and they STILL have to go in the crowded holiday season.
In China almost everyone I met had never left the country apart from rich businessmen and former international students. Most middle income people (managers, engineers, office workers) were able to go travelling twice a year to a big city or nearby province and that's it. High income people (lawyers, financiers, traders, not doctors tho they get zero holiday lmao) with their own businesses and such could afford to take months off work to go travelling in places like Xinjiang or inner Mongolia, but they were like 0.1% of everyone I met.
He's referring to the inability to take time off work to travel around China for a long time. A millionaire would presumably have little issue with that
>>2830104
Well, how do you find the time to travel for more than a week anywhere? The other anon covered some common ways, but you can also get a job there or nearby, be engaged in seasonal work, take a long time off work (maybe more difficult for Americans), be sent there on a business trip, etc...
The reality of the world is that adults with jobs don't have the free time to go travelling. You're either a wagie who can go away on week-long breaks three times a year or you have a special job that lets you go travelling to faraway places.
For comparison, adults in China with jobs get 4 weeks of state holidays (national day, Chinese new year, and labour day) and since they have to go back to their hometown for Chinese new year it's more like two weeks. Most Chinese people have never left the country unless they're very rich, and quite a lot don't leave the general area of the few provinces near them. For many of them going to Beijing or Shanghai is a dream that they can only do once every five years, and they STILL have to go in the crowded holiday season.
In China almost everyone I met had never left the country apart from rich businessmen and former international students. Most middle income people (managers, engineers, office workers) were able to go travelling twice a year to a big city or nearby province and that's it. High income people (lawyers, financiers, traders, not doctors tho they get zero holiday lmao) with their own businesses and such could afford to take months off work to go travelling in places like Xinjiang or inner Mongolia, but they were like 0.1% of everyone I met.