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The French, on the other hand, have Americans all figured out. In the French section of Quora, one Frenchman said that Americans didn't hang out their laundry to dry because they're so puritanical. This gentleman lived in Las Vegas, a well-know hotbed of Puritanism. He obviously never saw my aunt's bloomers waving in the Texas breeze for all the world to see back in the 1950s.

am thinking of moving to France myself . though am a bit apprehensive am too excited about the move.

Going to Paris soon and that won't be a shock to me anymore because here in Canada we always say hi and how are you and a lot of "I'm sorry" :)

true tradition for dessert in france : madam feels guilty about having a dessert so don't take one but eat half of mister's one

I'm a french who do not like most american people but i do not have any problem with american like you. You are educated. Most of american people i know are in a sort of cult for me. Starting with the pledge of allegiance in school, debt debt debt and still yelling "USA USA USA" everywhere they go.. flags everywhere, arrogance and shitty food. One time, some tourist took pictures of my wife when we were sitting at a café. They didn't ask before, they were only 2 damn metter from his face. She do not speak english but i do... and we had a little conversation. Because we're not monkey and the next step was maybe to throw my wife some peanut to eat ! who know ?

I got my French citizenship after about 10 years of residing here with a carte de séjour. I finally decided to do it so I could vote (I like representation with taxation). It didn’t cost much at all as I recall….there were lots of documents I had to provide from the US , and they all had to be recently dated which can be a pain. I did have to pay an official translator for my birth certificate ….but I was lucky enough at the time to have a colleague who could do it for me. I live in Marseille….lots of hospitals and clinics (public and private), as well as a high ratio of physicians demographically. Thus the wait time for a doctor or dentist appointment is much quicker than in a smaller town. Your advice is spot on…..and I’m sure very helpful for someone considering a move here !

As a Brit living in France, I have tried most of these foods, and I quite agree with you on the whole. I can resonate with your family's bad experience with oysters, which I detest, though in my case it was whelks on a plateau de fruits de mer (seafood platter): one of them in particular tasted absolutely vile! I'm not a fan in general of offal, except heart, and agree about the ethics of force-feeding geese, but am ashamed to admit that I do like foie gras: fortunately for my conscience, it's too outrageously expensive for my budget. As for black pudding, my husband loves the British black pudding, but detests the French version, which he finds slimy: I don't like either! And don't mention tripe, snails, or andouillette to me😝!

Ha I'm American. I'm 5' 10" and weigh 130 pounds. Just to say I'm fairly tall and thin. Yes, US restaurant portions are often pretty big. A to go box is always my best friend upon leaving a restaurant. I can't eat it all in one sitting.

3:47 "High quality food" is said "nourriture" in French language, which stands for "just food". 😂 Anything lower quality is "bouffe ordinaire" or "bouffe un peu limite", if not "truc dégueulasse immangeable".

Toilet paper in the US used to come in colors and scents. I remember my grandma having some 😂

HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE. American large portions are a stupid “substitute“ for a genuinely better life in France… but Americans are like allergic to realizing that. It’s SAD. I’m American by birth.

C’est très intéressant, vous mettez, très justement, le point sur les différences culturelles de communication entre français et américains. Pour le numéro 6, je rajouterai :"C’est pas faux!" Une expression devenue très populaire en France signifiant juste : It’s right mais avec toute la délicatesse française 😉😁 Be respectfull and be kind, salut 😊. It mean’s a lot,Thx 😘

Took you 11 minutes to make this video.... It would take a 1 hour video to list the crap you guys eat in the US...😆

I love lengua tacos and burritos. Never would have thought it'd like that 🤣 I tried escargot for the first time in Paris a few weeks and it was delicious! Didn't eat somewhere where they had frogs legs but I wanted to 😊

"le petit marseillais" is not a really soap of Marseille...!

Good to know about your sponsor My Panier being good. I want to order from them and haven't done it yet. I sure will now ❤️

I am French and like studying cultural differences. I like vey much what you do Diane. I have a hint for the (apparently) inconsistent « pas terrible ». Meaning of Terrible in French is the same as in English for the historic and common meaning. But in the sixties, it took an other meaning ( actually the opposite) among the younger generation who wanted to confront the older generations. The patronizing moral adjective ( like in ‘You are doing a terrible mistake, son’) became a synonym of cool. ‘il est terrible, ce mec’ meant ‘ This guy is cool’. I believe that the word ‘terrific’ had a bit the same distortion in English. ´A terrific disaster’ and ‘ you look terrific, in this new dress’ are a bit different. In French the ‘cool’ meaning of ‘terrible’ is now really outdated, except in the ‘pas terrible !’ Where it survived.

Wait, are you saying that Pepé Le Pew is fiction? Vraiment? Say it ain't so! ;-)

I have a dual voltage Curlsmith travel hair diffuser and used it abroad without issues. Its the best ❤

I am french, and i believe that even saying that "France has a lot going for it" is optimistic. The whole world is rotting and France is no different. I only see a dark future because whe don't have options. I was always more from the right side of the political spectrum, but i am seriously thinking about voting for the communists next. We have a massive moron as minister of the economy, put in place by Macron and who claims it seems "i am going to kill the social state", since 2017... And he sure does well... We are now contaminated by the american worm of ultra liberalism (corporatism) that is making everything worse for us. Even our infrastructure is starting to crumble, because everything is privatized, and private interests care more about profits than maintaining our infrastructure at a 1st world level. This problem is even bigger than the uncontrolled, crappy, lowbrow immigration that has been seriously getting on my nerves for more than 20 years now. From far right to far left. We already know that the center is paid by bankers. What you say at the end is very true. On a personal level i absolutely can't stand egotists who are all about themselves, whorship money more than good manners, or believe that Hollywood is a great cultural boon to the world. Someone like that won't feel good here, indeed.

Re asking what things cost, I'm a male and no one has ever asked me, but if I wore my favorite shoes or a favorite shirt and someone said, "I like that, how much did it cost," I'd reply, "Oh, a few thousand bucks." Humor almost always works (for me).

Great feedback. Taxes are also much smaller in the us. Government footprint is obese in France. We drink wine to forget!

Greater good. Yes!!!

As a French, I do agree with you for most of this episode...But, I love Good foie gras, especially " mi-cuit" and I recommend you to taste two "abats" : tongue ans especially smoked tongue from Britany and "onglet". It s truly delicious. For me, my worst food experience is "cervelle" but hopefullu, it almost vanish. Abats et tripes was a very affordable way to eat meat and It has kwown a golden age during WW. It's very important to keep that in mind.

aie aie aie, je n'ai vu que le premier et ça me fait déjà mal d'entendre parler du remplacement du fois gras par le faux gras, mon coeur souffre.

Interesting what may look quirky facts for Americans, but its a cultural difference that anyone traveling to France experiences first hand. Big houses, big cars, big salary, and long hours..where does it lead to. Old America is fading away, small towns are hemmed by and encroached by industries and big shopping malls, outlets.

Pas de soucis avec les pains speciaux, les boules, j'en achète tout le temps etc mais les pains de mies, ce n'est pas très croustillant ! Et plus important encore c'est très industriel.

Idk for other French people, but I grew up with the mentality that any debt = poor. If you owe money, you own nothing. Debt must be erased as fast as possible, and you should always live within your means whenever possible. I think we don't have this "debt culture" in France, in general. Don't spend money you don't have yet.

A venti is supposed to be 20 ounces. "Venti" literally means 20...

Pour le Bonjour je vais vous donner une explication. Si je pose une question sur Google je ne dis pas Bonjour mais si je pose cette même question a un humain je dis bonjour. Bonjour existe dans le vocabulaire pourquoi ne pas l'utiliser ? Quand on est enfant les parents nous apprennent à dire Bonjour Au revoir S'il vous plait Merci. Je croyais qu aux USA on disait Bonjour il y a 30 ans voire plus. Etait ce cas là ou pas ? Et si c'etait le cas pourquoi avez vous perdu cette habotude de dire Bonjour ?

Nope, when one really takes a critical look at it the average bistro food is no better than Applebees….

haha a bit sad tbh, you can't stand most of the very best French foods France has to offers it goes to show how people are set in their ways and are unable to truly evolve and adapt to other cultures, because really you went through all of France's top favourites

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French here About the automation of "How are you" : I feel it is a thing here in France as well. Not as much as in the US for sure, but still in a casual way. You won't experience it on formal occasions but maybe more with young people, just saying "Ca va ?" not expecting anything back and going your own way. The burger/ pizza stuff : it might be not so common here to eat it with knife and fork. Most places I've been don't even give you these when ordering. I believe it will mostly happen in "proper" restaurants where you can expect more choices on the menu than the classic fast food meals. And as pizza is now available about everywhere, you could expect to have it in your plate with a knife and a fork quite more often. Awesome channel, awesome content !

Portion sizes have gone down in US restaurants in past ten years, perhaps because of high decibel campaign by crusaders. But cost of servings has gone up substantially! Possibly, the crusaders were employed by restaurant industry to boost profits.

I think you could do the opposite, what is bigger in france. One thing I noticed is that regular chocolate bars in french grocery stores tend to come in 200g bars whereas in canada it is 100g or even less.

Bonjour. I'll add hotel rooms, bathrooms, shower stalls, stairs, hallways and elevators. And that's just in lodging. The RER and SCNF have smaller and fewer seats but the TGV is luxurious! We did not drive in Paris or Aix en Provence, St Remy de Provence or Villefranche sur Mer and never felt the need. We did rent a car for travel along the Cotê D'Azure from Toulon to Menton but for some reason they gave us a huge SUV-like thing that made small roads and parking difficult. Ask for the smaller car for a much easier trip.

Pourtant le foie gras est une merveille ♡

Error : la superficie de la France est de 551 000 km2 environ . It's rather easy to find this information ! You should compare what can be compared and compare USA and Europe . Or compare France to some state in US (I'm French and am living in France) .

I am American and also find these American habits rude. The "let's have coffee sometime" routine is just plain confounding.

Excellent video as usual. But, BEST THUMBNAIL EVER! 😅. Bravo pour ton travail!

Next time we go to France, we need to go into a pharmacy. We just didn't have time. So amazing what is available there and how highly trained and informed everyone is ❤️

Our family wears socks all the time, we don't have bare feet in the house. Feels weird 😊 Love your videos 😊

Why to eat more that what you need ?

It's not that things are smaller in France. It's that things are bigger in the US than anywhere in the world, for good or bad.

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The spoon thing is a fallacy, the sparkling wine should keep its bubbles for one or two days.

Doggie bags do not belong to our culture, USA is the country of plenty! I bet Americans have an impression they are ripped off 😅 I have just had a rotten tooth removed and was only charged €40, I bet an American dentist would have charged €400. Salaries as you pointed out, cannot compare with US.

Diane, I enjoy your observations. I am currently on a 2 month tour of France. In the US I drive pretty much everywhere as I live in surburban California. I am really enjoying the freedom of the public transportation. So much less stressful and in general pretty much reliable/on time.