<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Dave Noble:
...annual leave? The typical minimum in the UK is 4 weeks with 5+ weeks being not uncommon. In Germany for example it is higher. I was offered a role in the US and it would have involved having 1 months less leave a year, I didn't take the job due to quality of life.
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1. Huge sales taxes (VAT) significantly increase the cost to tourists.
2. Britons' insist on long holidays, but the labor force is not particularly productive the rest of the year. The labor force demands the same high wages. Labor cost is thus artifically high. This means employers get less bang for the buck... and so do tourists. Ergo, prices in Britain are unreasonably high.