@Moon @lain @cell "every 5 years overseas holiday" sounds pretty close to what I remember growing up tbh. But it was "upper middle class" families that did that. I was always blown away to hear someone took THEIR ENTIRE FAMILY to Paris, for example. My parents couldn't even afford a flight for us kids to Florida at the time.

A lot of people talking about this like it was some standard American experience are wearing Rose Tinted Glasses also known as 80s/90s Hollywood Films such as Home Alone and National Lampoon's European Vacation