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I quote from your post: ''This includes things like (i) the 'tall poppy syndrome', (ii) an 'I don't wanna know' suspicion of learning and education, (iii) conformism, including worship of sport and disdain for those in 'gay' artistic, creative or intellectual pursuits, (iv) not wanting to be...

''So status in Europe seems more linked to formal education/qualification/career than here or in the USA, where you can start you own business or buy IPs and do well and people will admire you rather than think you're odd. '' Spot on! I think the Dutch Royal Family kids still ride pushbikes...

You hit the nail on the head. As far as I know there is no private health insurance, no private schooling, it is all state run (and run very well, I think their education system is in the top few of the world at the moment) so people are 'all the same' and what you make of your life depends on...

That was in the Netherlands (Holland). But it is so different from here, it is like another world.

Dear Spiderman, To try and answer some of your questions, the holiday home is both a traditional thing (the family has always gone there, so a family history thing) and a status symbol. Funny hey! When owning your own home kind of isn't. It doesn't make sense viewed by an Australian. Consider...

If you remember that Europe is very different from us, you may come some way to understanding why this is so. In the Netherlands people cannot be evicted from their homes, and leases can be life long. You can do repairs and renovations to your rental home as well, without a problem. It doens't...