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Surviving the Cost of Living: Travel

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      Photo by Porapak Apichodilok      I'm playing around with blogging themes. Planning for retirement, fiscal wellness, and this topic, Surviving the Cost of Living, popped up due to inspiration from many sources. Lots of bloggers, Instagrammers, and YouTubers, amateurs and I guess professionals are writing about how to survive the Cost of Living Crisis. I think this is more than a point in time crisis but the way things are going to be. I mean, do any of us really think the cost of things overall are going to come down? Maybe eggs will stabilize if the bird flu situation resolves and egg laying flocks can rebound. Tangentially, things related to expensive eggs might stabilize too. But, I doubt corporations that will pass on their tariff expenses to consumers will ever retreat backwards should those be lifted. Trickle down economics has never actually happened in the past so what's going to be the motivator now for the ones with money and profits to cut ...