I have traveled throughout and have lived in Europe. The French have shown me more acts of kindness than all other destinations combined, and that is not what I expected. Then again, I did not go in expecting them to be jerks as some of us do. They say you find what you are looking for, that rings true in my experiences.

I also know that French graduates pretty much go directly to London if they want a real career. It is a shame the libs here want the same government controlled economy as they have in France, but still with the bad pasteurized cheese, bleh.

I certainly don’t like what’s Obama doing right now to America: remaking us into as another France.

But wouldn’t want to live there, for the reasons outlined by Veronique. I do agree that when you get to know them, the French are very nice people and most actually seem to like Americans. Also, I have worked with French military officers in the Middle East and Bosnia and generally found them to be professional and hard working.

Not me.

Had the salary of someone in your position tracked French GDP growth instead of US GDP growth over the past 30 years, that would be the effect¹.

To keep the numbers nice and round, a $100K salary would be slashed to $75K.

¹ (1.019^30) / (1.029^30) = 0.746