I do want to live in Cuba

I would like to live in Cuba for a bit. I think it would be insightful. But due to caring for my family I can't save enough money or spend enough time researching it to do it (and I have other more realistic priorities).

When I tell some people this, or just that I am a communist, I often get met with a laugh and the phrase "I'll pay for your tickets"

Yet they never pay for my tickets.

What's going on lads? Were they bluffing? Can they also not afford it? Where is the financially endowed manly republican man who can fund the opening of my eyes to the, uh, horrors of communism or whatever?