I was a rather precocious kid and so I was able to understand differences rather readily. But until I was about 7 or so, I thought it was normal to be jet-setting on holidays at least four times a year not including domestic travel of course. I learned of finances and started my own savings account around this age also and as others have said, we lived frugally. We'd take time off school to go to America and see Disneyworld or spend a month traveling continental Europe in a campervan, be in seaplanes on the daily in Fiji or on some safari in Africa etc, but we'd never buy brand new clothes. We'd go to the salvation army or order online from auction sites.

Explaining life stories now I have to invent details because I can't just say "on holiday we were staying at one of our apartments in <popular destination> and <x> happened" - instead I might have to say just that we were staying at a motel or something when <x> happened or avoid stories altogether which sound luxurious and expensive.

A lot of kids were afraid of being away from their families but I was used to international travel alone by about age 8.

The fact our family trust owns more apartments in the city I live, than people earn in 000's of dollars on average per year. And that's just this city - but there's people that can't afford to own their own title freehold until almost retirement. I thought if you lived in a house or apartment that you owned it - the word mortgage and what that entails only really entered my diction at around age 10.

I thought the rarity of pools, spas and saunas was due to the fact that most people in this country don't like them or they didn't like being out in the sun to play tennis. Why not just use the flood lights and play at night in that case right?

I didn't think twice about our family owning all the neighbouring properties and using them for storage, games rooms, more lawns and spare accommodation was by much extent - out of the ordinary until about age 10 and realised those houses were sufficient for families that if some people at school didn't have to have their kids in one bedroom, they still wouldn't occupy the entirety of them.

Nowadays though still technically youth I've seen the world already. I've traveled every continent and seen most of the worlds most popular and rare treasures. I have no desire to travel again even though the majority of what I've done was before 18. All my friends in study are poised to go on overseas experience trips and I have no desire to, because my memory serves me just dandy and it's easier to sit in the sun and read than revisit places that haven't changed, or have so but only for the worse.

I feel like an old man and I can't grow a beard.