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Affirmative on both points. I work for large Fortune 500 european company with really good vacation benefits - after 5 years you can get 23 working days and after >10 years you pretty much can take like 2 month paid vacation as a reward and to figure out what you really want to do in your life.
Have been with the company for >8 years and I have not seen a single person in our US office who ever took more than two weeks vacation. At the same time my european colleagues every year go for month-long vacations and this is normal.
There's that and also the fact that overseas travel beyond Canada and Mexico is pretty expensive. A lot of people simply don't make enough to justify doing so more often than maybe once or twice in a lifetime, let alone able to take the time off to do so.