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You'll definitely earn way less, but you'll be entitled to a lot of vacations (5~7 weeks of paid vacations). The Americans I know that went to work to France do
by esquevin 10y ago
You'll definitely earn way less, but you'll be entitled to a lot of vacations (5~7 weeks of paid vacations).
The Americans I know that went to work to France don't want to go back
- javajosh 10y agoSo do the Americans like it in France and want to stay there? The wording of your comment makes it unclear.
- jjawssd 10y agoThe Americans that went to France earn less money but want to stay there because they have more vacation time and presumably better quality of life
- steelbird 10y agoThe context suggests they like it in France. Could be clearer though.
- david927 10y agoI'm an American that just spent five years in France. My experience, for what it's worth: I can't say enough nice things about it in every aspect outside of work. I lived in the south of France and I now realize how nice life can be. Life -- not work. Working there was a nightmare. The pay is low, and while you can live on it, you're not really saving. For a while I was part of the startup community there and while there are many great programs from the government, there is a bit of a local mafia deciding things. Investors were so unsophisticated that technology itself seemed to scare them. All-in-all, if I could have made it work, I would have done so in a heartbeat. Living there is simply a small piece of heaven on earth. There's just no way to viably work there that I could find.