Dishes and on-or-near-property trash disposal are very reasonable requests.

If I'm paying a cleaning fee then why am I expected to clean?

I'll do the dishes aye, and take the bins out.

That's about it.

Hahaha, no worries, it's a good question, I hadn't noticed its brevity!

I should added /s lol this is pretty cool

I'm not sure, but with pages and pop-ups that large, the foundational paper and cardboard have to be pretty thick amd the popups have to sit relatively flat, so only a couple pages make sense structurally since it already weighs as much as a car.

Only two pages?

Toiling endlessly, the page turners develop Herculean strength and take over the library, then the world.

Read faster, or you're going to get caught between the pages.

Read slowly, the page turners are going as fast as they can

Yea, that makes sense.

Surprising me: Singapore is only a few thousand off at $51,000 USD equivalent median income per year.

Not surprising me: the US median income is $30,000 less than the average at about 45k per year, about a third of how much somebody needs to be happy in the United States. Even taking the US average, they're stil 50k short.

Yea, that makes sense.

They should have used median instead of average wage IMO.

how do I know you’ll send me to a place with airport security guards, clerks, marshals, etc?....I’m literally putting my safety (and the safety of my family) in their hands.

this isn't my website, but you aren't putting the safety of yourself and your family in this company's hands taking a mystery vacation much more than if you fly to a non-mystery destination and non-mystery hotel, or even order a rideshare or food delivery in your home city. The normal travel infrastructure and security apart from a random destination is still all there.

all of their flights are conducted on commercial airlines and none are all-inclusive; you only receive a random destination and lodgings upon purchasing a voucher. you'll pack your own bags, arrange your own transit to and from the commercial airlines at the commercial airports, where all of the above security measures will be in place.

flying to a random destination is not enticing to every traveler and this isn't going to become the routine way for anyone to vacation. it's marketed as a method for people comfortable with travel who want to mix things up in their usual routine.

I was mostly kidding, but the world is a very scary place. My concern is, how do I know you'll send me to a place with airport security guards, clerks, marshals, etc? I personally do a ton of research into airlines, hotels, car rentals, etc wherever I travel, even domestically. I've booked places (especially pre internet) that turned out to be total shitholes, and I have traveled to places where security is lax, human rights aren't a guarantee, and officials expect bribes.

I love the concept of a mystery vacation, but I would need to trust the booking agent completely because I'm literally putting my safety (and the safety of my family) in their hands.

Making it a lottery does not foster trust.

Big concern for people who haven't traveled before, but human trafficking occurs everywhere, not specifically vacation destinations. Between airport security guards, clerks, marshals, cameras, protocol, phones, and free agency, airline passengers have a lot of precautions against trafficking compared to actual trafficking victims.

Sounds like I'm going to get human trafficked.

Very cool, thanks, I'm looking for it now. i walk a looot.

Not yet, but

https://archive.org/details/giantstepsameric0000bush

great picture, thanks

 Since 2008, the very slender chasm has been bolted shut with a dinner-plate-sized steel cover that measures only about 9 inches across. But the hole it hides plunges down for more than 40,000 feet into the earth and took more than 20 years to dig. That’s deeper than the altitude at which most commercial airlines fly and deeper by about 20,000 feet than any other hole anywhere else on Earth.

Cool, did you read a book about his journey?

The list highlights four wonders.

That's idyllic Croatia!

I completely agree about the bills; visiting the US, my friends' cost of living has been disheartening as usual.

US hostels are $60 a night, the same price as a private apartment. doesn't make any sense.

I mean, the idyllic scenery is a bit overkill but to continue your point, when I get a $15 bill for gas, and less than that for water and electricity per month, I tend not to desire so much to be back in $250+ UK bills and more.

China. Love it or hate it I guess.