1000 dollars for a vacation?
It's just a placeholder for wharever number makes sense in the clearly expressed context. Either substitute $5000 or $10000, or substitute whatever location or demographic you imagined (since none was specified) for some other location or demographic. You can't start in the US and vacation in Venice for $1000, but you absolutely can vacation somewhere else and/or somehow else.
Or, just pretend they said whatever other number you like, because the specific amount was not material to the point they were expressing.
And that included zero activities
Anecdotes are fun!
Then they pointed out that both your data point and theirs were anecdotes (I guess that's what a single data point is), rather than actual data.
So their point was that they have experience that contradicts yours, and that neither their experience nor yours does anything to advance the conversation, because they're both just anecdotes.
As I said, I thought that was very obvious from their post.
So, we're back at Jensson's post from a day ago, with both you and IAmBroom having supplied contradictory anecdotes, and neither having supplied any data. So, do you want to add some data?