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may you please elaborate more on why France was the most frustrating?

• david927 16y ago
  It's where I live now (I live in Nice and work four days per week in London). In many ways, it's paradise: the food, the weather, the people -- amazing. But the bureaucracy is killing me. The paperwork and incommunicado government officials are like something out of a Kafka novel. My wife applied for her entreprenuer license six months ago. (We thought it would take two weeks.) Nothing has happened. It took two months to get internet connectivity after six or seven scheduled meetings where they just didn't show up. Open a company? Forget it. There's a lot more I won't go into. At first we put it down to that we are not native French speakers but after talking to some others, it seems that's not the case. So, in a word: frustrating. That's just my personal experience; YMMV.
  • LiveTheDream 16y ago
    I can corroborate horrible experience getting internet connectivity in Nice; it took about 2.5 months!
    • petervandijck 16y ago
      Getting internet connected in the mountains of Colombia took us a week :)
  • ezalor 16y ago
    A friend of mine opened a company (EURL) in 2 weeks and for about 300 euros. Honest. It'd be twice as expensive in, say, Estonia (I run a business there).