[Gllug] [OT] speaking French in France

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:02, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> 
> It's a very nice country.  A greater land mass than the UK with less
> people than London - no housing shortage so no artificially high prices.

> For example, a norwegian friend of mine has 48 _weeks_ paternity leave
> on 80% of his regular salary.
I think a similar policy in the UK would result in an even larger
population imbalance...
(Of course, there is a natural hysteresis built into the system.
Not to say that the 50% of the population doing the hard work would
have a say in the matter also)

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