<human>: I'm a software developer from the US. I know absolutely nothing about Europe, other than it exists, some of my ancestors are from there and my grandfather lost an eye fighting Nazis there.

My wife wants to move out of the US. If you haven't noticed, we're sort of riding the right-wing crazy train off a cliff. Neither of us particularly wants to live under Christian Sharia, so we're looking to jump ship.

Somebody told me that work schedules in Europe look different. That you guys work less, get paid less, get more time off and rarely have to work overtime.

That was kind of a shock to me, because I never get time off, get paid a boat load and have never had less that 20 hours of overtime (Time spent working, exceeding 40 hours in a given week, in case it means something else over there). I wouldn't know what to do with time off. Is this true? Is it mandatory? Would I be able to work more (and continue getting paid) if my employer and I were both cool with it?

If you do have lots of time off, what do you do with it?

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<bot>: Might want to move to one of those places in the near future, and I'm a one-dimensional workaholic with no life or interests to speak of.