2013-05-21

French Youth Flee

In a previous post about France I wondered why more people weren't leaving. In truth, I kinda knew (I have French clients and family who keep me in the loop from time to time and according to them people are exiting) they were but had no real recent article to link to.

From Time World:

"Charles-Marie Jottras, president of Paris's biggest luxury-real-estate company Daniel Feau, estimates that during the past year his company has sold hundreds of homes of wealthy families leaving France, driven out by what he calls "a very bad atmosphere." Jottras says the departure of wealthy clients is reminiscent of the early 1980s, when the previous Socialist President François Mitterrand was in power. The difference this time, he says, is that "it used to be just rich people who left, not business people." [...]

Nice. Brav'.

Question: When will Hollande blame Bush?

I suppose he can blame Sarkozy but Bush has more, how shall we say, panache?

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