Well, I can afford a few weeks in the USA - sponging off family and friends to avoid rent. I can afford the Western Cape for a month - cheap in comparison to er.... something. But anything else is cost prohibitive. I've been to NZ - very nice and super Brit automobiles (if one loves the 60s).
I'd just decided we would go - worked out the tickets (much sweat) and then found out that one connection was Tel Aviv and Israel don't want no steenkin' transients. Then France "non". And then I started to worry about New Jersey which doesn't like people from anywhere in the USA, including those who have been in Ohio. Gave it up.
We're planning three weeks in the Cape (which is where we live now - Groot Brakrivier. Look it up. There's nothing here except a little town, the river, the sea and peace). We'll be booking three places near our favorite wineries - the actual Cape around Groot Constantia, et al; Franschhoek for Mullineux et al; and Somerset West for Flagstone and access to Stellenbosch. They don't get decent wine in Auckland, do they?