As a European living in the US since a decade. It starts to impact my mental health.

I went from 8 weeks / years to 4 or 5. Currently 3. Ha.

I cannot recharge the same way ( meaning : travel for weeks at a time, or chill hard for 2 weeks in a row )

It’s flexible all right. But I feel like I’m always working somehow. Work is near, lurking.

I’m nursing a nice little depression that I feel a road trip would cure easily. Too bad I need to keep my last week of vacation for Christmas week.

That sounds really bad man. I'm originally from Germany,but lived previously in Asia(Singapore/Hong Kong), New Zealand and now Australia. I never got less than 3 weeks vacation.

The US is a good environment to innovate, but it's mostly good for companies and not people.

Mind sharing where exactly in Europe is 8 weeks vacation the norm? In Austria it's 5 weeks for everyone but law and that's what most tech companies will give you as well.

I’m French. 5 weeks is the minimum. Then we work 40h/week but legally we should do 35h. So that give us a extra week.

Those 6 weeks are the norm.

But it become increasingly common to ask for another week as a perk it you are a skill worker.

I my last French job I had weird hours and overtime in the weekend because of the industry I was in. It’s leads 7 and some changes weeks.

So, not 8.

I don't think there are 8 weeks, but 6 weeks? Spain has 30 days vacation if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah I’ve redone the Math in a sibling comment.

1) it was 7 and some change. Not 8w 2 ) due to a special arrangement with my employer.