Reasons to live or not live in France

[C8PPO]

Driving back from the Alps through a largely-deserted France on Sunday evening, I started to wonder what's not to like about an uncrowded European country with good transport links and infrastructure, higher speed limits than the UK, decent food & wine, mountains, snow, ski lifts, and, obviously, that well-documented je ne sais quoi.

So, form an orderly queue, add your criteria, pos or neg, to the list below:

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[Lost soul]

C8PPO said:

Driving back from the Alps through a largely-deserted France on Sunday evening, I started to wonder what's not to like about an uncrowded European country with good transport links and infrastructure, higher speed limits than the UK, decent food & wine, mountains, snow, ski lifts, and, obviously, that well-documented je ne sais quoi.

So, form an orderly queue, add your criteria, pos or neg, to the list below:

FOR

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AGAINST

1.The French
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[sleep envy]

FOR

1. The roads
2. The food
3. The wine
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AGAINST

1.The French
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[MK4 Slowride]

Lost soul said:

C8PPO said:

Driving back from the Alps through a largely-deserted France on Sunday evening, I started to wonder what's not to like about an uncrowded European country with good transport links and infrastructure, higher speed limits than the UK, decent food & wine, mountains, snow, ski lifts, and, obviously, that well-documented je ne sais quoi.

So, form an orderly queue, add your criteria, pos or neg, to the list below:

FOR

1. swassant neuf (I know it's spelt wrong so fkoff)
2.
3.
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10.


AGAINST

1.The French
2. Les onion
3. escargot (not you, the snail)
4. hariy ladies
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10.

[Cara Van Man]

FOR

1.Wine
2.Calvados
3.Cider
4.Food
5.Access to Europe
6.Le Mans
7.
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10.


AGAINST

1.The French
2.Stinky cheese
3.Hairy armpits
4.Body Odour
5.2CVs
6.Citroens
7.Peugeots
8.Renaults
9.
10.

Edited by Cara Van Man on Tuesday 10th March 16:03

[loafer123]

Driving back from the Alps through a largely-deserted France on Sunday evening, I started to wonder what's not to like about an uncrowded European country with good transport links and infrastructure, higher speed limits than the UK, decent food & wine, mountains, snow, ski lifts, and, obviously, that well-documented je ne sais quoi.

So, form an orderly queue, add your criteria, pos or neg, to the list below:

FOR

1. Wine
2. Virtually no work done in May
3. The summer off
4. Food
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.


AGAINST

1.The French
2. Lack of deoderant
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[blueyes]

C8PPO said:

Driving back from the Alps through a largely-deserted France on Sunday evening, I started to wonder what's not to like about an uncrowded European country with good transport links and infrastructure, higher speed limits than the UK, decent food & wine, mountains, snow, ski lifts, and, obviously, that well-documented je ne sais quoi.

So, form an orderly queue, add your criteria, pos or neg, to the list below:

FOR

1.uncrowded European country
2.good transport links
3.good infrastructure
4.higher speed limits than the UK
5.decent food
6.decent wine
7.mountains
8.snow
9.ski lifts
10.je ne sais quoi


AGAINST

1.The French
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Is that any help?

[WTFWT]

Cara Van Man said:

FOR

1.Wine
2.Calvados
3.Cider
4.Food
5.Access to Europe
6.Le Mans
7.
8.
9.
10.


AGAINST

1.The French
2.Stinky cheese
3.Hairy armpits
4.Body Odour
5.2CVs
6.Citroens
7.Peugeots
8.Renaults
9.Continual risk of surrender
10.

Edited by Cara Van Man on Tuesday 10th March 16:03

[JRM]

sleep envy said:

FOR

1. The roads
2. The food
3. The wine
4. The Skiing
5. The beaches
6. Beautiful women
7. The sunshine
8. Cheap housing
9.
10.


AGAINST

1. The French
2. Les onion
3. escargot (not you, the snail)
4. hariy ladies
5.
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9.
10.

[JRM]

This needs a tidy up now, think the OP needs to do a merge

[sleep envy]

JRM said:

5. The beaches
6. Beautiful women

steady!!

[shirt]

FOR:

food
wine
laziness
proper countryside
french ladies


AGAINST

les gendarmes
french cars
frenchmen
lack of english channel to keep the hoardes at bay

[john2443]

JRM said:

sleep envy said:

FOR

1. The roads
2. The food
3. The wine
4. The Skiing
5. The beaches
6. Beautiful women
7. The sunshine
8. Cheap housing
9.
10.


AGAINST

1. The French
2. Les onion
3. escargot (not you, the snail)
4. hairy ladies
5. (I believe) high tax
6. No real beer (ie bitter, mild)
7. Surely no PHer would move to a country with strong socialist tendencies
8. No decent chips
9.
10.

[TVR keith]

Cara Van Man said:

AGAINST

1.The French
2.Stinky cheese
3.Hairy armpits
4.Body Odour
5.2CVs
6.Citroens
7.Peugeots
8.Renaults
9.10.

Edited by Cara Van Man on Tuesday 10th March 16:03

Whether you like French cars or not is obviously a matter of personal opinion.
BUT, at least they do actually make cars that are French. And the French people buy them.
Which is more than can be said for this country. Apart from a few very small volume specialist manufacturers all the rest are owned by the Yanks, Indians, Japanese etc

[MacGee]

[quote=blueyes][quote=C8PPO]Driving back from the Alps through a largely-deserted France on Sunday evening, I started to wonder what's not to like about an uncrowded European country with good transport links and infrastructure, higher speed limits than the UK, decent food & wine, mountains, snow, ski lifts, and, obviously, that well-documented je ne sais quoi.

So, form an orderly queue, add your criteria, pos or neg, to the list below:

FOR

1.uncrowded European country
2.good transport links
3.good infrastructure
4.higher speed limits than the UK
5.decent food
6.decent wine
7.mountains
8.snow
9.ski lifts
10.je ne sais quoi


AGAINST

1.The French
2.the french.
4.the french
5.the french
6.the french
7.the french
8.the french
9.the french
10.the french

[Puggit]

For:
Much cheaper council tax - bins emptied at least weekly

Against:
Far too much socialism and red tape. Although they do it to protect jobs etc, not to be Big Brother...

[BigLepton]

FOR

1. Food
2. Roads
3. Property prices
4. Health service (see against no. 2)
5. Excellent public transport (see against no. 2)
6. Lots of space
7. French birds are dirty
8. It's not Germany
9. The Millau bridge
10. It's close to England


AGAINST

1. Lower salaries
2. Higher taxes
3. Dreadful beaurucracy
4. Socialism
5. French birds are dirty
6. They are very bad drivers. Your car will be dented weekly.
7. Aggressive road policing that makes scameras seem friendly and cheap
8. Communists
9. You'll be a refugee if there is ever another war
10. No decent curry

[sleep envy]

BigLepton said:

9. The Millau bridge

what's the big deal about this bridge?

[nellyleelephant]

Main reason for moving there is to get a view like this from your garden for £108k all in!!!

[Tycho]

For:

No Gordon Brown.

Against:
The French.


Right, I'm off...