Based on data from [Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ilc_mdes02/default/table?lang=en), almost 3 out of 10 people who live in the EU can’t afford a week-long holiday, as of 2022. Country variations are huge: more than 60% of Romanians lack the financial capability to travel for more than 7 days, while fewer than 10% of Luxembourgers are in a similar situation.
The “away from home” is very questionable here. I mean, you could take a tent and just drive to Latvia in couple hours and spend a week there. That’s away from home and in another country. Wouldn’t cost you anything really.
I’d very much like to see the process they assumed for a week long holiday. My last one was 3k€ the one before 200€ (two adults, two kids). The 3k€ I agree with and wouldn’t be surprised if the percentage is even lower. So without the information about the assumed prices this graph is useless .
16 is the starting age of this survey?
I can’t afford food and bills, let alone a holiday. The last time I’ve been on holiday has been 18 years ago, so more than half my life ago.
This looks more like ‘week long overseas’ holiday.
Why did they add 16 year Olds to this? I feel like it’s just to make the graph more inflated. 16 year Olds are usually busy with school and some work, but at that age paying for a vacation isn’t common anywhere. Does the graph take into account of students vs workers? When you’re a student you’re usually losing money so. Not a surprise they’d have trouble paying for vacations.
I’ve been lying on side of the pool in 5* Hotel and I’ve built my own hut in the woods. Both “away from home”.
One hurt my wallet badly, after second one I returned home with year’s worth of mushrooms and berries. We. Need. Details.
Well Luxembourgers could just walk to one of their neighbouring countries, so I’m not surprised they are lowest.
I mean to be fair, the question is worded really poorly: “Can you afford a week-long holiday?”. As some has pointed out, just going to the next country with a tent and sleeping there for a week is a week-long holiday and doesn’t cost you much other than the transportation.
Also, I’m pretty sure many people don’t know how to travel. I’ve seen offers to travel to place X for 1500 Euros, where you could go for 450 comfortably if you just planned everything yourself. And those offers still get bought, and not by rich people, but rather by people that go on vacation once a year but really don’t know how cheap travelling can be.
Also, pretty sure most 16 year olds cannot afford to travel on their own, without family or friends. Makes no sense to include them here, really.
16-year-old? C’mon, do that survey with people 30+ then we can take it seriously.
People in Malta ARE on holidays, why would they need to go somewhere on holidays. They live in holidays destination.
They probably can’t afford it on their own but their parents most likely pay for it.
Romania wins this one!
Skill issue
You should see the graph for “percentage of 15 year olds who can’t afford a nail salon” crazy bad
Funny how especially Greece, Bulgaria and Croatia are holiday destinations but we can’t afford them even in our own countries.
By what metric? I can hardly think of anyone I know in Croatia that *doesn’t* spend at least a month on holiday on the coast each year.
They probably took some random ass number to represent the “cost” of a week long holiday and compared it to disposable income.
For many Croatians a holiday costs like 5% of that number they picked because they or a family member own some kind of vacation home somewhere on the coast. And half the country just lives on the coast anyway.
I’m pretty sure I could safe money if I took ~3 weeks of paid vacation and went to some cozy eastern european place. No 5 Star hotel or something like that but still decent.
Imagine being Greek or Croat, having thousands of kilometres of coast and not being able to afford to use your own land.
Fuck I can, I am one of those.
So? It’s not a right. I grew up dirt poor (we never went on a holiday). It’s a nice to have but not really needed. Vacations away from home are a luxury.
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Based on data from [Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ilc_mdes02/default/table?lang=en), almost 3 out of 10 people who live in the EU can’t afford a week-long holiday, as of 2022. Country variations are huge: more than 60% of Romanians lack the financial capability to travel for more than 7 days, while fewer than 10% of Luxembourgers are in a similar situation.
The “away from home” is very questionable here. I mean, you could take a tent and just drive to Latvia in couple hours and spend a week there. That’s away from home and in another country. Wouldn’t cost you anything really.
I’d very much like to see the process they assumed for a week long holiday. My last one was 3k€ the one before 200€ (two adults, two kids). The 3k€ I agree with and wouldn’t be surprised if the percentage is even lower. So without the information about the assumed prices this graph is useless .
16 is the starting age of this survey?
I can’t afford food and bills, let alone a holiday. The last time I’ve been on holiday has been 18 years ago, so more than half my life ago.
This looks more like ‘week long overseas’ holiday.
Why did they add 16 year Olds to this? I feel like it’s just to make the graph more inflated. 16 year Olds are usually busy with school and some work, but at that age paying for a vacation isn’t common anywhere. Does the graph take into account of students vs workers? When you’re a student you’re usually losing money so. Not a surprise they’d have trouble paying for vacations.
I’ve been lying on side of the pool in 5* Hotel and I’ve built my own hut in the woods. Both “away from home”.
One hurt my wallet badly, after second one I returned home with year’s worth of mushrooms and berries. We. Need. Details.
Well Luxembourgers could just walk to one of their neighbouring countries, so I’m not surprised they are lowest.
I mean to be fair, the question is worded really poorly: “Can you afford a week-long holiday?”. As some has pointed out, just going to the next country with a tent and sleeping there for a week is a week-long holiday and doesn’t cost you much other than the transportation.
Also, I’m pretty sure many people don’t know how to travel. I’ve seen offers to travel to place X for 1500 Euros, where you could go for 450 comfortably if you just planned everything yourself. And those offers still get bought, and not by rich people, but rather by people that go on vacation once a year but really don’t know how cheap travelling can be.
Also, pretty sure most 16 year olds cannot afford to travel on their own, without family or friends. Makes no sense to include them here, really.
16-year-old? C’mon, do that survey with people 30+ then we can take it seriously.
People in Malta ARE on holidays, why would they need to go somewhere on holidays. They live in holidays destination.
They probably can’t afford it on their own but their parents most likely pay for it.
Romania wins this one!
Skill issue
You should see the graph for “percentage of 15 year olds who can’t afford a nail salon” crazy bad
Funny how especially Greece, Bulgaria and Croatia are holiday destinations but we can’t afford them even in our own countries.
By what metric? I can hardly think of anyone I know in Croatia that *doesn’t* spend at least a month on holiday on the coast each year.
They probably took some random ass number to represent the “cost” of a week long holiday and compared it to disposable income.
For many Croatians a holiday costs like 5% of that number they picked because they or a family member own some kind of vacation home somewhere on the coast. And half the country just lives on the coast anyway.
I’m pretty sure I could safe money if I took ~3 weeks of paid vacation and went to some cozy eastern european place. No 5 Star hotel or something like that but still decent.
Imagine being Greek or Croat, having thousands of kilometres of coast and not being able to afford to use your own land.
Fuck I can, I am one of those.
So? It’s not a right. I grew up dirt poor (we never went on a holiday). It’s a nice to have but not really needed. Vacations away from home are a luxury.
lol welcome to hell boys