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Why France is best place to live in world

Seeded on Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:32 PM EST
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Bindi Dupouy, an Australian living in Paris, and her French husband, just had their first child, a son born in the country.

Dupouy, a 28-year-old lawyer, got almost five months paid maternity leave from her company for the birth. She can take another seven months off beyond that -- a year total -- unpaid, if she wants, with her job guaranteed under French law.

When her son Louis was born, healthy and by way of a normal delivery, she got to stay in her local French hospital, around the corner from where she lives, for five full days, to rest.

Welcome to France, voted the best place in the world to live for the fifth year in a row by International Living magazine, which has been analyzing data and publishing its annual Quality of Life I

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One of the reasons France keeps winning the ranking is its world-class health care system, which Dupouy just experienced first-hand.

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Reply#1 - Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:33 PM EST
abacass

Yeah but try telling that to your average AM Conservitive talk host...

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#1.1 - Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:05 PM EST
Tony in Arizona

try telling that to your average AM Conservitive talk host

It's not only them, try telling it to a sizable chunk of the law makers who are so indebted to the insurance industry who bankroll their road to office that the refuse to examine other successful health care models in other places. Instead what they do is stymie every effort to dismantle the failure we have. And they sell to an uniformed American populace how our broken system is the best there is to be had.

Health Insurers Post Record Profits While 2.7 Million People Lose Coverage

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#1.2 - Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:16 PM EST
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Shub Tnediserp Remrof

I don't know if it is true I know this a bit off topic from the whole health care system of theirs, but one thing about I've heard that probably is a turn off is that old dictators of other countries live there and maybe some random terrorists. But that is what I had heard many moons ago, not sure what party they were affiliated with.

I have heard about Frances health care system, though it depends on where you go in France. If you go to Paris your guaranteed the best of the best, but if you go to a local doctor in a smaller city it won't be as great. Of course this is information that I've received from someone has lived there in the past.

In my opinion why France is one of the best places in the world is its architecture that I have heard so much about is quite unique both above ground and below.

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Reply#2 - Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:58 AM EST
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