European workers are more productive while working shorter hours. In America we think constant work is virtuous, and we are ironically less productive.
It's a lot easier to drop by your friends if you are walking home than if you are driving home. The very act of walking gives you an incentive to stop.
Personal curiosity - do your friends like being dropped in on? It may be an age or stage of life thing, but most of mine would cease being friends with someone who made a habit of drop ins.
No idea - we don’t have anyone close enough to drop in on. If we all lived in a walkable setting and saw each other more frequently and casually, maybe.
European workers are more productive while working shorter hours. In America we think constant work is virtuous, and we are ironically less productive.
It's a lot easier to drop by your friends if you are walking home than if you are driving home. The very act of walking gives you an incentive to stop.
Personal curiosity - do your friends like being dropped in on? It may be an age or stage of life thing, but most of mine would cease being friends with someone who made a habit of drop ins.
We're talking about Italy, which is a whole different world from the social customs of the US.
No idea - we don’t have anyone close enough to drop in on. If we all lived in a walkable setting and saw each other more frequently and casually, maybe.
It may be cultural, too. My husband, whose parents were immigrants living in NYC, is comfortable with the idea
of drop ins. My Virginia family, not so much.