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If I travel n miles roundtrip, I need to spend 1+ (3*number of visas)+(n/6000)^2 days at minimum for it to be worth it, and fill those days with some mix of stimulating and well-paid work, home-level comfort, genuinely unusual leisure to be worth my time, energy, and the carbon.
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For a destination on other side of planet where I need a visa, (except India), it works out to: 1+3+(24,000/6000)^2=20 days For LA to NY, it’s 1+0+(5400/6000)^2 ~= 2 days Min 1 day, so overnight. Even west-coast day trips are too annoying. Up early/back late is brutal.
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Once again, the best cost function turns out to have time units
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This thread inspired by a spreadsheet scenario model I've been building this morning to analyze some personal life financial strategery. Interestingly, the cost function I ended up with in the model was "number of unfunded years" The best cost functions all have units of time
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dunno about that... I think I'm just old and have had enough of it that I'm in my diminishing returns part of the curve and the slight increase in marginal costs is enough to kill the desire. I'd still go if for eg someone took me in a private jet and took care of all logistics
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Interesting. What, or more specifically where, are the edge cases? Like: bucket list stuff? Longer stay duration? Interesting cultures to check out? Visiting friends? What is your rubric on "non-essential/essential"?
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Oh man, I'm so desperate to travel these days. I was doing 3-4 data collection trips a year to Africa and Asia pre-covid, and since then I've felt its absence like a missing tooth.