Holida-ay

Here's a reason for staying in the UK:

"In October 2007, the minimum entitlement [of annual leave] was increased to 4.8 weeks paid holiday from four weeks. This works out at 24 days for a full-time worker, with a pro-rata entitlement for part-time workers too. From April 2009 this will increase to 5.6 weeks.
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While one in five people get the minimum amount of paid holiday, the average full-time employee gets much more at 33 days leave including bank holidays. Union members are even better off on average, getting 37 days leave."

I get 30 annual leave days, plus 8 bank holidays and 8 days off over Christmas & New Years (with the University - slightly different to how the Council worked it). We may be underpaid, over-taxed and the weather may be crap, but hey, at least we get time off work to complain about it!