Same here in Finland, and it just makes no sense to me at all. So often I will talk with someone who lives in a city here, and hear them complain about how brutally expensive it is, how nobody makes enough money to save anything, and a few sentences later they're telling me about how annoyed they are that they have to drive 6 hours every weekend to their $30,000 hut in the middle of nowhere to patch up the leaking roof or stuff more dried moss between the logs, and that they should have sprung for the $50,000 one that's only 90 minutes away. By car. In a country where gas is regularly over $10 a gallon. When they could get to work just fine on the bus.

We'll stick with our quiet little apartment and our free time and our growing savings accounts, thank you very much.

Same in Norway. These days it's often second homes in the mountain, better equipped than many poor people's homes, and in a "cottage suburb" where you can even pay people to do the maintenance - but that does get some derision from the old-style cottage fans. Old-style cottages with limited amenities are still popular, though in these days of solar panels even mountain cottages typically have at least electricity, and a vacuum toilet rather than an outhouse.

I'm 30 and I remember when this was still a thing in Russia. As soon as Communism crumbled and the new economy could provide enough food, literally everyone abandoned the dacha and the potatoes.