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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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I don't know how it's anybody's business how much some unrelated person spends on their anniversary vacation.
If this were reversed and it was the co-teacher going on about how the foreigner was spending too much money on a vacation, people would be telling her to get lost. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
I don't know how it's anybody's business how much some unrelated person spends on their anniversary vacation.
If this were reversed and it was the co-teacher going on about how the foreigner was spending too much money on a vacation, people would be telling her to get lost. |
No one would tell her to get lost - because she'd be discussing it among her peers. Maybe she's discussing the OP's penny pinching right now. What's your point? |
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qcat79
Joined: 18 Aug 2006
Location: ROK
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| true, i am penny pinching, but still, i'm talking about her vacation. someone made a good point about staying more of an extended time if you're going to pay for the airline tickets anyway. i always try to stay as long as i can for whatever budget i have in mind. but my co-teacher is the kind of gal that has a DSLR camera and just bought an iphone. i think her wardrobe is quite big too. nice gal, but totally obsessed with spending money, imho. somebody mentioned keeping the kids at home. hell, that's the best idea. throw them to grandma. isn't that what anniversaries are all about.....pretending you were in the same position you were X number of years ago??? |
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machinoman
Joined: 12 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
I'm about to catch a plane to Hong kong. �240 flight return. Couch Surf for free when I'm there.
Come back having spent... 800,000k most, I reckon., over 4 days. |
shit, globu, 800,000,000 won? baller-much? |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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I can understand that. I am told people born on Guam are exceptionally beautiful, intelligent, and talented.
I am also told you can eat SPAM for breakfast. Cha-ching! |
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offtheoche
Joined: 21 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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Tell your co-worker to pack as much kimchi, rice, red pepper sauce and noodles as possible into the suitcases.
Should save a mill or two right there on food. |
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warmachinenkorea
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| Guamanians told my wife and I that Korean travel agencies rip Koreans real hard on packages when they go to Guam. They also said the Japanese take care of the Japanese real well with low priced packages. |
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nzbradly78
Joined: 23 Mar 2009
Location: Czech Republic
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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12,000,000. Wow. I've got a family of four, and we've been on vacation with our kids and spent half that for a week long vacation including airfare. They must be getting scammed, or are staying in a high end resort.
Either way, hope they enjoy it. |
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Seems expensive. But maybe she's trying to 'buy time' with such an inflated budget.
To put this in perspective. Many westerners could live like a king in Thailand for $12,000 a year.
Myself, starting next feb, I'll be living like a king (in Thailand) for 15 months on that amount of money.
Good luck. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Sure, YOU could spend 6 months in SE Asia on that, but no one in their right mind would take their two kids to stay in a youth hostel in Cambodia. |
That doesn't change the fact that you could go to a plethora of family friendly places in SEA for a week, get the same service, and spend about half of that. Guam is a ludicrously expensive (and boring) resort playground for those lacking in imagination and fearful of Southeast Asia. |
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| You sure your co-teacher isn't 8 months pregnant? |
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warmachinenkorea
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| redaxe wrote: |
| Sure, YOU could spend 6 months in SE Asia on that, but no one in their right mind would take their two kids to stay in a youth hostel in Cambodia. |
That doesn't change the fact that you could go to a plethora of family friendly places in SEA for a week, get the same service, and spend about half of that. Guam is a ludicrously expensive (and boring) resort playground for those lacking in imagination and fearful of Southeast Asia. |
Guam has so much more to offer than resorts. If you found it boring then you might be lacking imagination. |
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