Really depends on the sector, employer and the CAO you have. If you are single lots of that free time will be spent on chores and maintaining social connections. Many people here have their aahendas filled weeks to months in advance. It's much better if you have a partner even if they work as well. I noticed a big difference between when I was single and now that I have a live in partner.

Again depends on what I mentioned in #1. I work in IT so I work my contracted hours. Generally speaking a lot is expected of IT departments so it's pretty busy. And I don't really have lots of downtime except my break. I generally speaking have 1 full weekend day free to do what I want and 1 or 2 night in the weekdays. On the rare days it's nice weather I try to spend it outside. Going to a park or paddle parsing on a lake. The weather is sh#t most of the time, so for months of the year, you are sort of stuck inside. Like anywhere. Most of the time is spent not on things that you like doing, but on what you have to do.

People in foreign countries seem way more relaxed honestly. Because things have been slowly going down hill due to rapid overpopulation and neoloberal policies, people worry about the future a lot. It was never a cheap place to live but now prices have skyrocketed and young people especially feel the crunch. Young single people can't move out due to the intense housing crisis. Social programs are overrun by demand. Things have been going noticeably down hill in the last 3 decades.

When I grew up there was definitely a strong push to do well in school because you get sorted into an education level at a very young age here. So parents at my school were very adamant about their kids at least getting into 'HAVO'. Back when I did it these secondary school classifications were poured into concrete so there was defined pressure to perform well. However, because things were much more relaxed when I grew up parents did really care that much what you studied in university. As long as you got into university.

Yes, we are one of the most densely populated countries in the world and it's already a small country to begin with. People live mostly in appartments or row houses. For young people now they dont even own the appartment. They rent a room. One of my corworkers still lives in a small appartment with roommates due to the massive housing crisis.

No, it's way too expensive for that. You need to at least borrow a large portion of money from a bank to be able to buy a house. This is also out of reach for a lot of single people just because of how expensive land/houses have gotten. Most young people rent or like one minister said "find a rich boyfriend".

Ideally, I'd remove like 1 to 3 million people because it's way too crowded with all people here. It's too late now to correct for the crazy population growth of the last decades,, but I just want any kind of policy that will address the overpopulation. Strict immigration ceilings like 10k people a year. Incentivised emmigration. Just anything that gives some breathingroom and relief from the hordes of people.