I think most of this discussion is sidestepping a very simple, very obvious point:
Do you want to go on vacations to travel to various places?
If you want to, then do. If you don’t want to, then… don’t. What’s the problem, exactly? No one’s forcing you to go anywhere. Some people enjoy these sorts of things; other people do not. And that’s fine! It’s totally fine. People like different things. (And for different reasons, too! None of your questions have single, canonical answers—because people are different, and enjoy different things, for different reasons.)
I think you’ve summarized the question we’re trying to answer pretty well. Does Daniel want to go on vacations? We don’t know. How would one go about deciding whether they want to go on vacations? You seem to be missing the fact that one might be unsure about their preferences.
I assume that Daniel doesn’t currently travel, is thinking about it but it seems expensive and is trying to build up a model of whether he’d get anything out of it.
I thought my response to this mostly deserved its own thread here. Regarding the financial aspect, I can afford to travel, but it impacts my finances enough that I want to be careful to make good travel decisions, whatever that means.
I think most of this discussion is sidestepping a very simple, very obvious point:
Do you want to go on vacations to travel to various places?
If you want to, then do. If you don’t want to, then… don’t. What’s the problem, exactly? No one’s forcing you to go anywhere. Some people enjoy these sorts of things; other people do not. And that’s fine! It’s totally fine. People like different things. (And for different reasons, too! None of your questions have single, canonical answers—because people are different, and enjoy different things, for different reasons.)
I think you’ve summarized the question we’re trying to answer pretty well. Does Daniel want to go on vacations? We don’t know. How would one go about deciding whether they want to go on vacations? You seem to be missing the fact that one might be unsure about their preferences.
I assume that Daniel doesn’t currently travel, is thinking about it but it seems expensive and is trying to build up a model of whether he’d get anything out of it.
I think that it’s best not to assume; questions like this are fairly pointless unless we know what OP’s reason for asking is.
And if he currently doesn’t travel, he should try it! Travel somewhere not too distant or expensive, see how it is.
And if he can’t afford to do even this, then what’s the point of asking the question? What does he plan to do with this information?
(Maybe these questions have good answers! But we don’t know what they are. So this whole discussion is unlikely to be productive…)
I thought my response to this mostly deserved its own thread here. Regarding the financial aspect, I can afford to travel, but it impacts my finances enough that I want to be careful to make good travel decisions, whatever that means.