Comment by ginko
5 hours ago
I know a couple people from my parents' generation who did the hippie trail in their early 20s and they certainly aren't rich. Basic Austrian middle class.
5 hours ago
I know a couple people from my parents' generation who did the hippie trail in their early 20s and they certainly aren't rich. Basic Austrian middle class.
When did they travel and how much did they pay?
From there you can easily extrapolate how much it deviated from contemporary wages (roughly 30,000 Austrian schillings a year for a Viennese industrial laborer with a union contract in 1964).
A lot of people who think they are from middle class backgrounds are actually in the upper cream of society but never realize it.
Here's economic data for wages and household income in Austria back in 1965 [0] (page 2 and 11).
[0] - https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...