Terrible pay, shitty vacation policy(30 days running after one year, including weekends), often expected to arrive early and do overtime, bosses can be very passive-aggressive if you don't.
Europe has much better work-life balance and benefits, I love my country but there's no way in hell I'd go back to those working ways.
That's debatable. Canada's minimum vacation policy is 10 days a year, which is absurdly low. Some companies offer more time, but that's only if they are somewhat sensible.
From what I heard, European companies is way more humane on that sense.
I sometimes tout that even freaking Brazil has federally-mandated vacation time, and then I have to remind myself that it's kinda idiotic and includes weekends and any overlapping holidays (which is meaningless if your job doesn't encompass working weekends), and you can't use those vacation days as you please, but instead are limited to a handful of options. When I was still there it was either take all 30 days in a row, or two 15 day blocks, but AFAIK there was some kind of reform recently that made it a little bit more flexible.
> I love my country but there's no way in hell I'd go back to those working ways
Yeah. I'd only go back if I could work a remote job for an overseas company.