Unemployment rates are severely under tracked.

[Tanstalas]

SamuelRSmith said:

Tanstalas said:

SamuelRSmith said:

Not living, just vacating for the month :P I've also been to New York, probably going Vegas next year (I say probably, because my parents are wanting to go, but you have to be 21 to actually gamble, which seems to be the main attraction - - and my brothers are even younger than I (will be 17 and 14 by the time we go), so there would less for us.

Maybe I should try and convince my parents for Cali - they were interested in it a few years ago. I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, but the flight is just too much for someone like me (the 9 hours to Orlando is enough to drive me insane).

So, you're going to have to re-re-evaluate my opinion back down again.

Is your family rich and just vacations in different parts of the world?

You make it sound like we spend more time out of the country than in... that's not true, but, yeah, we do go on holiday a lot.

Rich? Maybe, but then so is anybody who has enough disposable income to fund a gaming hobby (well, that's my view anyway - and one of the reasons why I get so agg at the self-proclaimed "defenders of the poor" on this website, who seem to criticize capitalism and talk about how it exploits the poor, etc - and yet they're sitting there in an electrified, heated room, on their computer with their internet connection, clearly interested in gaming, and clearly having more than enough spare time - all benefits of the system that they hate oh-so-much, but, hey, I'm rambling)

Spending $60 on a video game is cheaper than 5 plane tickets/accommodations to various parts of the world.  I laughed when you compared vacationing for 5 people in hawaii to buying the latest Street Fighter game :P