Posted on 10/13/2016 10:24:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The French are more gloomy about the future of their country than anyone else in the world, a new study has found.
A new study from Ipsos has revealed that the French are the most likely to think their country is heading down the wrong path.
In fact, a full 88 percent of respondents to the survey answered that they think the country is going in the “wrong direction”.
This compared with 83 percent of Italians who think their country is also on a downward spiral and 82 percent of Spanish.
Sweden and Germany had 73 and 71 percent of people believing their country was going the wrong way, while the figure was at 64 percent for the US, 58 percent for Australia, and 56 percent for the UK.
The world average was 62 percent thinking their country was heading the wrong way. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
Agree.
Just about any part of Normandy is great. The people are friendly and helpful, even if your French is weak. (Mine is awful)
Normandy is mostly countryside and farms.
...and the D-Day beaches.
I’ve been there three times, and would go back in a heartbeat.
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