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Juan F Gonzalez

I'm curious, why everything in France is so terrible?
And yes, I completely agree with the "stressing about everything" stuff. I have a co-worker who on occasions we talk for hours on this. "I'm stressed because I have too much work" and others are like "I'm stressed because I haven't been assigned to a project and I feel I'm not doing anything".

And others stress about the traffic, and the weather, and the politic situation and on and on...

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I'm curious, why everything in France is so terrible?

It is not!

France is just a normal country with flaws and a lot of beautiful things.

The economy is supposed to be horrible all the time, but in fact it is much better than the propaganda about it would make you and us believe it is.

On the bright side: if the U.S. would be able to transpose some of the features of the French Healthcare systems, that would be a massive improvment of lives for millions of americans - things like thousands of babies not dying, people being more free to work whereever they work, everyone living a number of years more - while ALSO sparing a lot of billions.
ukessays.com/essays/economics/fren...

Now the specific problem a lot of my fellow frenchen struggle with, you can find it by asking two different questions:

  • A) How are things generally in France right now?
  • B) How happy are you personally in your life right now?

The typical french answer is:

  • A) Things are terrible for everyone in France right now
  • B) But I am personally quite happy, thank you very much.