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There are possibilities of shitty company's behaviour though: in case of said "envelope" salary, you still get some part of it officially (like minimum wage), so if the place is shitty enough, they can pay you only the official part, so you have a "not-so-paid" vacation. Or they come up with some reasons to not sign your vacation: "why July? Look at the schedule and better take February! We're family and family needs you now!"
It's not everywhere like that - usually low-skill and/or blue-collar stuff. But I encountered that in IT when I was starting out (and didn't have much choise with tetail jobs in my cv)

I'm sorry, I felt like bragging, but I really don't know what to do with all that time, and one of the reasons is that I tend to spend money on vacations, and I don't like to spend money, I like to save.
But really, it's not Denmark or Sweden that good, it's US laws are bad. Ok, in Denmark I have 5 weeks by law and one more from my company (which is a usual perk). But I moved there from Russia, where the working culture sucks (overtime, envelope salary, etc), and overal situation with any human rights is not that funny, but people still have 28 calendar day paid vacation.

pretty much the same in Denmark. I still don't know how to spend all of the vacation days. We just used up Mandatory 3 summer weeks, and I'm kinda tired of resting this year, but I still have 3 weeks left

I see it more as anti-muslim. To be racist, the agenda should be about supremacy of one "kind" of people over another, and here we see a cultural/religion clash.

I'm not sure about it: I like when noodles slowly get less hot, and comfortably drinking the rest of the liquid in the end. And in a thermo cup, if it's too hot, it'll stay too hot

Oh yes, I've heard of (but haven't experienced myself) a low quality of a "standard" us house, but personally I really value the amount of space over many things. When the covid started, we rented a shitty thin-walled summerhouse to get out of the 5M city and keep some freedom of movement. And it was so awesome I didn't care how much firewood we burned, or how I could hear the kids through 2 walls. Because I could step out of the door and still stay within "my territory", my place. And in most of small apartments, not just the soviet ones, you feel trapped in those 2 or 3 concrete boxes you call home.
And if you build a house for yourself, you have a chance to make use of all the modern technologies, and some things are not that much more expensive - I know because I did plan to do it, and I even have a giant excel file with calculations and choices made. Never happened because we moved to another country.

There was an architect, Le Corbusier. He was a socialist, so his projects of future cities involved a lot of public spaces where people spend their free and working time, while a person's home was just a small area for sleeping and eating breakfast. The Soviets took the idea of small personal homes, and dropped the "nice public areas" part.

• It's cold in the winter because the walls are quite thin
• You can hear your neighbours loudly speaking
• I was lucky to have a normal-sized room in a later "Brezhnevka" house, but many of my classmates had rooms (if they had a separate room at all) where you had a bed, a cupboard+desk combo, and a chair in the middle, that you have to remove to get to the window. Japan-sized stuff.

Speaking of Le Corbusier, as his main (I know, that's subjective) achievement was a technical approach to ergonomics - all sizes in his projects were based on human sizes and proportions. Meaning that a height of a ceiling is a height of an average adult man raising his hands, + some space. It worked, and it's cost-effective, but you really like some extra space, and have more than 3 sq.m. toilet.

Well, In German it's also grammatically correct

Same in Russian - it's something like "wehwehweh"

Living in their goddamn cities, reading their goddamn books. I aint never not read nothing, and I'm fine!