Do you like France?What do you think of it?

Question

I think it's better than Italy.

Answer 1

i have never been to italy but im interested on travelling there in the near future as i go to france every year to visit my grandparents. i love france and the culture, fast lifestyle, fashion, everything....its great. its a beautiful language, and even though a lot of peopel say the french are rude, theyre actually not. they are not really rude as people say, they just dont like to speak english because of their horrible accents.

Answer 2

Beautiful language, charming people,  fantastic history .... almost as good as Britain's but not quite.  

Italy's history is better than Britain's though,  they had a thriving civilisation while we were little more than cave dwellers.

Answer 3

blue man,I'm IN Paris .I'm not french.I  love Paris.i work ,I'm here from12 years.I  Steadied in England. I love London,and bath at Avon.

Answer 4

BiBi mon ami! I agree with you 100% I am also a native of France and absolutely love it! Sinistra I would absolutely have to disagree with you! if anything that was vraiment rude but thats just my opinion. I can't really sum up the country in a paragraph but it is full of culture, history, and fun. Where ever you go there is always something to do. I have  been to Italy and really enjoyed it. It is truly fascinating how different yet the same people can be living in totally different cultures! Of course I have a bias bc i am French but its just how i think!

Answer 5

I'd like to start by thanking Sinistra for her pointless generalization of what she's seen during the few hours she maybe spent trying to figure out how she should behave in order to appear 'welcomable' by the locals. Cheers.

Ahmmmm as a Frenchman I can't undermine my own country, naturally... anyway I will try to answer as objectively as possible.

  First of all, I like France because of political reasons. Our democracy works rather well, we do not have a lot of formidable political scandals nor upheavals, our policies are not tinged with religion, we do not have too much policemen in our streets, we have strong public utilities, we are in the European Union, we share a currency, policies, strategies with our neighbours, we are careful are experienced about international matters, and our media isn't too corrupted.

  Secondly, I like France because of our history, habits and customs. Generally: meals are convivial moments that you spend with your family and is a good pretext to open a bottle of wine and/or debate about familial issues in a more or less relaxed atmosphere, we take the time - when we have it - to cook our meals, we like healthy food, we have a rich history and bunches of places to share it through tourism, and all this rather manages to resist, for the moment, to globalisation.

  Thirdly, I like France because I miss it when I am abroad. You realize how much you like something when you are deprived of it. I am currently in the United States of A and I miss France a bit, not too much yet because I arrived only less than 2 weeks ago. Anyway, I wouldn't stay and live here, and I am not being patriotic or nationalist or anything.  I just prefer France to all the countries I've been : USA, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Greece, England.

  This is my opinion! Feel free to react.

Answer 6

Hi there. Just a (not so quick) answer to this question.

I'm french as well and i'm afraid i must admit that i was shocked by Sinistra's answer. Apparently we may not be talking about the same destination.

I spent 5 months in New Zealand and i obviously loved the country. But living abroad for a while and experiencing new cultures also helped me understanding how nice and rich France can be in terms of architecture, History, Identity and so on ( NZ is awesome as well, of course ). To my opinion, it's hardly possible to compare France and Italy though our two Histories are closely linked. As i'm living 2 hours drive from Italy i had this chance to visit a few towns over there and the people were charming, with great and colourful personalities. The cities are lively, the cultural sites are very interesting, the food is excellent and the weather is just like the french riviera.

As for my own country, it is true that we benefit from quite a bad reputation. Frogs are known to be arrogant and too proud of themselves, and above all, bad at english.... I would like to say "stop" to these clichés as these false ideas were, perhaps, true a few decades ago, but not in the 21th century. Nowadays, if you're a foreigner travelling to France for Holidays, you'll very often be welcomed in English. You'll be able to pick up brochures and leaflets in English, and your guides will speak english or at least will give you audio guides in English if you're visiting museums, castles, monuments, World Heritage features, etc. Of course, if you finally find a small and authentic 300 inhab. village, you may have some troubles finding someone with a totally fluent english, but, is this really typical to France? I don't think so.

French food is fine and compelling. We have been able to protect some of our regional cuisine and culture, therefore, if you travel to several regions, you'll be surprised to see how different France can be experienced according to where you are. Normandy, Brittany, or even Aquitaine are totally different from Provence, Corsica or  the Alps, for instance. I reckon it must be the same in Italy, as the North of country is close to Europe with some boundaries with France, Switzerland, etc.. as opposed to the South totally surrounded by the Sea.

To conclude, i'd like to give you my opinion : the best way to compare both country is to go and visit, and, perhaps, you'll feel like visiting other countries, why not Spain, UK, or Scandinavia? After all, we're all different, but we're Europeans also! ;)

Answer 7

I've never been to Italy so I can't say but Sinastra's comment was just so racist. My parents are both from France and I've been there several times. I love this country, the people, the environment, the culture and best of all the food!

Vive la France!

Answer 8

I can't stand the place - the people are unbearably rude.  Regardless of what they say, you always get that undertone of utter disgust by the way that they begin every sentence with that shrug of the shoulders, the raise of the eyebrows and the downwards curve of the lips; it really isn't worth the waste of their time.

The wine is awful, the food is overrated and this is the nation that invented perfume and cologne to mask their pungent aromas, rather than wash.

And not forgetting that this is also the country which still revels in upsetting tourists with it's 3rd world style squatting 'toilets'.

Italy has nicer food, nicer wine and nicer people.

Answer 9

I believe it's full of french people! Other than that, it's quite nice. lol

Answer 10

Beautiful scenery, beautiful women, great city in Paris.

Answer 11

Such questions are essentially meaningless and do nothing but elicit the prejudices and personal bias of the answerer.

Even at the extremes of possibilities there is no meaningful way to answer. For example, Zimbabwe is one of the most beautiful places on earth with a mysterious ancient civilization scientists have yet to fully understand. It also has one of the most evil and incompetent governments in human history. How does this combination of clashing factors interact to provide a rating of Zimbabwe as better or worse than some place else?

Human society and nations are too complex to allow us to make facile and simplistic judgments.

When comparing one Western liberal democracy with rich historical, cultural and artisitic attributes to another the idea that we can say one is "better" than another is just foolishness.

I prefer France to Italy as a travel destination but that is probably because I visited France before I visited Italy (one is always fond of one's first love), speak French better than I speak Italian, and get cheaper airfares to Paris than to Rome. But it would be absurd for me to assert that France is better than Italy or vice versa.

Answer 12

I love both countries greatly but I love France the best as I speak the language and prefer the food and culture.  Italy may boast the better art and architecture but France to me is especially good at the quality of life.  The people seem better and more reliable as well etc.

Answer 13

Well, its a huge country, so its difficult to generalise.

Personally I love the SW - the areas around Saintes/ Cognac is fabulous. the food is amazing, the pace of life lovely, the sun just great. I have found most people to be warm and welcoming, especially when you make a bit of an effort to speak French.

Answer 14

oui oui I love France...if it were not for France (myself being an American) I would be speaking English!

Answer 15

Simply love it...

Sinistra, what is rude actually is your comments, I cannot agree with that!

Answer 16

Love France. I live in Spain and regularly drive to the UK in my motor-van and drive through France staying at campsites. I usually take about 5 days and each time I go I take a different route. Its a wonderful country so diverse, the roads are quiet and very clean, and the people charming and very helpful. The food is  excellent, and the little auberge's that you pass always have plat de jour and with a carafe of the local wine the meals are very reasonable. I can never decide which area I like best as they all have their own particular charm.

I did enjoy Italy, but found the motor scooter drivers there terrible, couldn't cross a road on a crossing, without being mowed down and the food left alot to be desired. Too many pizzas and pasta places serving inferior meals. If you wanted to pay an arm and a leg, you could get a good meal, but they were few and far between and I'm talking about the length of the country as I travelled north to south.

Answer 17

Your question is very vague but personally I love France; it's where I was born and I'm very attached to it.

Your question is very vague but personally I love France; it's where I was born and I'm very attached to it.

Your question is very vague but personally I love France; it's where I was born and I'm very attached to it.

Answer 18

how does one define somethign like this. You would have to live in both countries for a long time to be able to make a good educatied assumption.

I have bben to both on businees and stayed in each for a couple of monthes. I had more fun in France and the people seemed more rounded.  Italy, the people were all nice, but everyone was paranoid of the criminal activity. At least where I was in Milan. they spent too much time at the dinner table and less time hanging our casually.

I think I prefer France, but I haven;t lived there loong enough or in enough places to really say it factually

Answer 19

Been to France twice and liked it. Never been to Italy so can't make a comparison with that country

Would however rate France above Spain.

Answer 20

se preferisci tanto la francia vai ad abitare e li e non romper li Cogl*oni con questa storia. mi sermbra proprio ke tu stia facendo discriminazione dicendo che è mlt migliore un paese di un altro... ognuno ha i suoi pregi e a parte la questione della gente ke trovi in Italia...di gente stro*za ne trovi ovunque, persino in Francia! non facciamo di un'erba un fascio!