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What you refer to is people relocating for work or study. It happens but it's uncommon. Much more common is boarding a low cost flight on Friday night or Satur
by pmontra 5y ago
What you refer to is people relocating for work or study. It happens but it's uncommon.
Much more common is boarding a low cost flight on Friday night or Saturday morning, flying between 60 to 120 minutes and coming back on Sunday night. Add to that a two/three weeks vacation once per year.
- vmception 5y agoI’m referring to statutory 5 weeks of vacation actually. Narrowing it down to developed nations with that feature.
- pmontra 5y agoI realize that I didn't explicitly state that I was writing about my experience in Europe, as a European living there. The data points are me and my friends of multiple countries but mainly Italians. There are (working) people who move to another place for many weeks but the vast majority of us does weekend tourism and 2 or 3 weeks vacations. Companies are not particularly keen to let one person go for 4 o 5 weeks. My personal experience when I was not self employed is that they don't like even 3 weeks in a single stint. The two longest vacations I had were one month long after I went self employed (hi Australia!) I expect that working from home will make staying abroad for a long term more common, but it costs more money that staying at home (you're probably still paying a rent or mortgage) and it's usually not for families.