I don't understand the point of giving a big table of numbers and then not doing any comparisons or calculations based on the data. Maybe it's just meant to mak

I don't understand the point of giving a big table of numbers and then not doing any comparisons or calculations based on the data. Maybe it's just meant to make the whole article seem more scientific than the hand-waving that it really seems to be? Anyway, I can't say for any other cities, but a population figure of 3.7m for Vienna is ridiculously overblown. The actual figure is 1.9m for the city, Wikipedia gives 2.6m for the metro area. But even just the city itself is sprawling and very badly connected towards the outskirts, so even the 1.9m are very unevenly served. Also, it's not true of course that the French (and Germans, and Austrians) typically take their 5 weeks of vacation in a single block in the summer. That wouldn't leave any vacation time for the winter holidays, other school holidays, etc. Two-, maybe three-week blocks are much more typical in my experience.