This reflects my experience with France (living just next to it, spending most weekends there). It is truly a beautiful country, but system and mentality is som

This reflects my experience with France (living just next to it, spending most weekends there). It is truly a beautiful country, but system and mentality is something I will never ever want to live in. They don't have democracy, they have anarchy - when any industry decided it wants more money, they take rest of the country as a hostage and they don't give a fraction of a fck about consequences to others lives (trains, airlines, taxi drivers, farmers, anybody). In other couturiers those people at one point would go to jail. You want to fix a broken heater in an apartment? Well it took 1.5 years, ping pong excuses, with ridiculously high costs. Trade jobs are ridiculously protected, to the point where there is no competition and end user pays eye-watering sums for mediocre services. French colleagues, patriots they may be, prefer much more hiring Portugese or east European workers to french ones. And its not only about prices, quality and motivation is worlds apart. I mean, many young still think communism is some ideal to strive for, that tells you enough how good spirited but desperately naive and out of touch with real world this country is. This gap is going to widen much more before it will get better. To think they want to create startup hubs is a joke, and a very bad one. I mean, even Macron has some pretty sour statements about how messed up and unfixable French state and mentality is. And he has nothing to win to publicly state those things, only to lose. It's a typical place which has huge potential, due to its location, beauty and human 'capital' (highly educated masses), but never will come even close to realizing this potential for many reasons. The system is broken, everybody is doing whatever they want and fck the rest, rules and law are a joke to ignore and resist, corruption is very high (and like ie marital cheating, is semi-accepted as 'a french way'). The only sane discussion about these with a french person can be if that person has lived outside France for some time. Otherwise its always 'France is the best country in the world, end of discussion'. You think these are some outsider's sour opinions? No they come mostly from my french colleagues.