Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-32347396-20170914114920/@comment-30530552-20170923030609

ChishioKunrin wrote:

PisceanWaterbender wrote:

Jaune camped in Mistral as a group of 10 (himself, 7 sisters, parents). Unless his family is rich, they're likely doing local vacationing to save money, and so likely live in Mistral. That doesn't necessarily mean anything. You don't have to be rich to take your family on an expensive vacation. It just means that you take those vacations less often, as you have to save up the money to do it. A couple of my parents' friends take their kids on vacation to Disney World fairly often (about every couple years), despite only being middle class. They prefer to take a plane since it's kinda far to drive. At this point, they have four kids and three grandkids. And let me tell you, Disney World is pretty damn expensive. The park tickets, the hotel, the food, the souvenirs, all of it is very expensive, even if you get a meal plan instead of buying food out of pocket.

But yeah, for all we know, Nora's family could have moved to Anima from somewhere else or could've been visiting or on vacation, and then her parents died there. Jaune did say that "My family and I used to vacation here all the time!" While the frequency suggested in that statement is debatable due to its vagueness, that suggests it happened frequently enough to be reputable.

And while camping is definitely less expsensive than Disney, I find it unlikely a family from Sanus would travel to Shion in Anima just to go camping unless it was a reputable spot, they had the funds to go there as often as Jaune suggests, and there wasn't something immediately closer they could visit on a regular basis for less.

You ever seen how much tickets for ships between continents are? Usually pretty expensive, even just for a family of 4.