“Q: What exactly is preventing you from moving to France?”– Promoting the commo

–“Q: What exactly is preventing you from moving to France?”–

Promoting the common illusion that the nice parts of Paris where the millionaires live, and the tourists spend their drachmas, is anything to do with the absolute slums that surround the isle de france like an encampment, and the absolutely depressing, poor, and unsafe disasters of the big cities (without even touching the smaller ones): Toulouse, Rennes, Lille, Lyon, Grenoble, Nice (OMG), Nantes, Marseille (Marseille has a crime rate five times higher than most other cities in France including a gun-related fatality approximately every four days (2.83 gun deaths per 100,000 residents). The city has around 30 homicides per year and 40% youth unemployment, which results in high levels of property and petty thefts.

(a) Islamization, political unrest, and an oblivious government.
(b) Riots, Strikes, Blockades, and “everything on fire” nights.
(c) multiple cities with no go zones
(d) relative hostility to entrepreneurship.
(e) unbearable business regulations.
(f) intolerable taxes.
(g) the offensive authoritarian arrogance of the bureaucracy.

If you’re a commoner france is great. If you’re competent and ambitious then there is no alternative to the anglosphere, with the american system simply unparalleled.

When the French government approached me about opening a location in france they acknowledged all their issues – they didn’t even deny it – but they stated that they still needed to work on bringing business and particularly technology entrepreneurship to france. To which I responded – you cannot create a technology company that cannot turnover highly paid employees at will. The technolgoy marketplace requries continuous talent rotation that mirrors that “noise” of tech moving through the businesses and institutions in the economy.

I’m met with Glazed eyes. 🙂

So yeah.

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