I was just watching SkyNews... don't believe them, please don't believe them.
This is NO civil war in France ! It's just a big protestation, but people are quite calm, only some little groups of fuckers are breaking stuff, trying to hurt people, to burn cars and moreover to steal things. The other are cool and are just launching some paint or eggs on the CRS (Security Group of the Republic), it's making me laugh.
So please, don't believe your TV, all is cool in France, and I'm not paid by tourism companies to write this. Those protestations are organised by syndicate of workers and students (not the syndicates of crime
... mmmh... this may be a false friend in fact, but if so, I don't know the english word). They are well organised, violences are quite rare. This cannot be compared, in terms of violence, to the protestations that took place in november.
SkyNews are really anti-French as far as I can tell, they are saying we are not competitive, this is false. Yes, an employer has to give 40% of your salary to the state, but on the other side we don't pay much for our health, and once we're 65 year old, we don't work but we are paid (never enough...
). That way we are able to live with smaller salaries... I really don't believe you can live easily as a lone man with 1500$ a month in any US big city (I don't even talk of NY where I don't believe you can rent a rabbit cage for that price)
In US, some people are unemployed because... because some older people need to work until their death. We don't have this culture in France, that's just a different culture, a different country !
I'm just wondering why SkyNews is lying to you that way... that's quite sad to me.