I have five weeks vacation per year. Only entry level employees with no seniority have 2 weeks vacation per year. Of course if you earn minimum wages commensurate with minimum skills, you don’t get any paid vacation.
Hubby and I have plenty of time and money to enjoy life and leisure. We Americans work hard and play hard—wouldn’t have it any other way.
Fair enough,but everybody in this country is by law entitled to 4 weeks annual holiday irrespective of what level of pay and skill they are on.
Obviously the higher skilled and paid have longer holidays
Sure we have our share of so called poor, but you also have them in the states.
There is a lot wrong with the UK but I think by and large we have our priorities in the right order.
Don’t take this the wrong way but the general consensus of yanks in this country is that you all seem to be obsessed with trying to impress others, be it plastic surgery, your teeth,flashy but not very good cars, etc etc
Despite all this you also by and large seem top spend a lot of time with either your therapist or your counsellors.
I won’t even go down the road re your crime and murder rates.
However I do accept that the average yank is far more well mannered than the average brit which is something of a contradiction in terms considering your murder rate.
Maybe between the two nations we could learn something from each other and come up with a better system.