Originally Posted by host

From the thread OP:


The entire Op article is political...from the disparity in the amount of vacation time, to this, also in the OP:


The French clearly enjoy superiority in quality of living....the article highlights that....to ignore it is what.....???? Is your point to ignore this superiority, and is ignoring it, not political, too? The article is correct.....something is wrong, but "the French behaving badly" is only one small dimension of what is wrong.

The French may be arrogant, and folks in the hospitality industry may be bothered by how they behave. Why is it not appropriate to react to and discuss the other, possibly even more interesting and significant information in the OP article? France is "the" destination, of all vacation destinations in the world, despite the impediment of a very strong currency (expensive) now in France. Why is that?

I tried to show reasons for that, by sharing an article describing the decline in foreign tourism to the US. The French enjoy the most vacation days, why is that.....what does it mean? The article mentions how few vacation days Americans, on average, get....and it states that Americans do not even "take" all of those many fewer days....why is that?

Originally Posted by Destrox

In Pa, USA:

No sales tax on clothes, shoes, and other essential items.

And what is taxed is only 6%