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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Europe is poor.  So many Americans are woefully unaware of how extremely low salaries are in Europe. Life expectancy is low in the US, but ours is also dragged down because the US deals with a lot more complicated births that'd be terminated in Europe. When kids die below 2 years old, it drags down the mean life expectancy by a lot.[/quote]

Do you get 6-8 weeks vacation a year? How many of your friends and relatives do?[/quote]

I currently have 400+ hours of vacation.

Why in the hell would I want 8 weeks vacation?  That's why Europeans are poor.  Their productivity is trash, they barely invent anything anymore, and life for them is about coasting by with your bare essentials met.  Hey, if mediocrity appeals to you, move to Europe.

All of the vacation and time off in Europe is so overrated.  The trade off are often salaries that are nearly half of what you'd get paid in the US. I don't want or need 8 weeks off. Pay me more money please, thanks. [/quote]

You know you can’t take it with you, right?  Everyone dies. No one brings their bank account to the afterworld. [/quote]
+1  I mean.. I guess some people live to work, and others work to live.

I enjoy not working. I've had the past 10 days off. We didn't go anywhere. It was just nice to chill out, cook at home with the family and watch movies, and not feel hurried all the time.

DH and I have been taking at least 5 weeks of vacation in total every year for the past many many years. It's awesome. I love it.

^^PP is the type who will work till they die.  That's fine if that is what you want for your life. But, IMO, that's not really living. That's working.[/quote]

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