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Originally Posted by Mutt
and what did your parents do for a living that they could have a dacha PLUS one month a year at a Black Sea resort?
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Nothing. My father was working as engineer and my mom was a teacher. We've got a free 3-bedroom apartments and free dacha. Also the company where my father has worked, was paying for our yearly family vacations at Black See (road tickets and hotel). In fact we were a very average family. For example, parents of my friends were cooks, so hay had a lot of goods (a bar with import drinks, Japanese audio recorders, video recorders etc).
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Originally Posted by Mutt
because I grew up in Canada, my friends were working class, middle class and some upper middle class. none of my friends parents owned a cottage, which is what we call a dacha, and none of their parents got a month at a resort in a tropical place.
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Not a month actually (it was 20+ something days) and I wouldn't call Black Sea a tropical place. As about dacha, so my parents have a 3-level brick cottage. The ground level was a non-living and non-heated basement + 2 living two floors. We were using it during the Summer time only, because it was located in 40km away from our city - living there during a working weak was not a good idea
According to Wikipedia, 50% of Soviet families had a dacha. I guess other 50% were living in villages and had no need in a summer house, or they were too lazy to have a dacha (it was taking a lot of time for maintenance). Actually not every American today has a house like
dachas that Soviet people used to spend their weekends or vacations at