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France has a very prominent geographical dichotomy : what you have in Paris, you don't have elsewhere in France, and vice-versa. That includes (well-)paying jobs, high quality education, access to doctors, cheap and abundant public sport facilities, culture and so on. In the rest of France you get a relatively better environment, depending on where you live (though there are some sad, depressing shitholes everywhere in the country), maybe cheaper food, also depending on where you live, and that's about it really, at least for educated young professionals. You can be the perfect equivalent of a bogan and still be content if you like TV, footy, your 1400€ net per month job, 20y/o cars and the like. It's bigly caricatural, yes, but having lived in both of these Frances, I have to say as much as I hate living in Paris there really isn't anything close to it in the country.
I came back to my parent's for holidays just a week ago and I was shocked how the whole city (40k inhabitants) is just... dead. Ageing population, only developments are retirement housing. No jobs unless you accept to commute or work in supermarkets, hospital closed, 2 cinemas closed out of 3, doctors retiring, pool torn down a few years ago and no money to build it back, sport facilities either privatised or crumbling, big, symbolic, industries of the region closing or moving. It's a grim state of affairs and it's only gonna get worse.
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