Originally Posted by
KatW
Where this is going — the upper middle class is excluded but for occasional blowouts. Only the mostly rich need apply. I do mourn being of the sorta mostly upper middle class. But I had a VERY good run.
An amazing run, Kat. You've been so many places (even domestically) I still dream about.
I daresay it's also not necessarily over for you, at least in terms of pricing.
This thread is mos def interesting, but the hard truth is none of us can predict what's going to happen with pricing, on anything.
To quote Luis Cyphre (Bobby DeNiro) in 'Angel Heart" - an excellent, long lost 80's noir classic that nobody will remember: "The future is never what it used to be".
It's pretty insane right now, granted, but it's also a weird time with both pent-upr/revenge-demand and inflation still peaked. And while the world seems out-of-control with wars, conflicts, bonkers 'politicans', etc, right now, it seems like we're virtually
always just one or two steps away from some kind of significant correction. It doesn't (necessarily) have to be as awful as a major terrorist event, let alone an organism far deadlier than coronavirus or the zombies finally arriving en masse.
Things are
always changing; to expect otherwise is fully delusory.
As for me, my 'run' has been pretty good. True luxury has been fairly infrequent in my work travels, and the locations tend to be the same - nyc, l.a., rome, nashville, austin, a few others.
But I feel like I've got a good decade left to spend (highly) irresponsibly on family/friends/romance trips, and way more places on my hitlist than i'll ever hit.
I'm confident I'll 'choose' to afford these places (if i indeed can), and if the top level is just too obscene at any given moment, i'll 'settle' for slumming at a Como or TLC/LXR type property.
Meantime, yeah, yikes.