The WORST Experiences I Had in France (from 6 years of life in France as an expat in Paris)
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- Worst experience story time! Bad things that happened to me in France.
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Obviously after 6 years of life in France and through being an expat in Paris, I'm going to accumulate some negative expat stories that took place in France! Please don't in any way think that I hated living in France - I just think exploring some of the worst things that happened to me, and life in France negatives, should be a normal and open conversation (compared to all the picture-perfect Paris content out there!).
This video is not so much about negatives life in France / life in France downsides / pros and cons of living in France / reality of living in Paris because they are very much focussed on my unique expeirences that cannot be generalised. However, I will put some further binge material just below for you to sink your teeth into!
Do you have a worst experience in France? Have you has a negative experience in Paris? Share down below!
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“The physio I had after my operation was an absolute angel...to be fair, she was Spanish.” Hahahahahah
She defends this inacceptable abusive behaviour. Every.time.
Totally agree - brainwashed.
Thank God haha, lucky I'm of Spanish / Basque descent among others "things" 😆🌐🗺️
You’re very brave for speaking about your assault. I’m sorry that happened to you. As tourists who have never been we need to be made aware of these sort of dangers especially as single women. Thank you 🙏
This problem not only in paris! I was expat in paris and many big cities in different countries and i saw the same like what happened to you in the metro! Its not a French thing!!! I don’t know why she try to show french people are bad or france its so bad!! I was living there for 19 years and the life there very good and people were so kind!! Not like she said in one video that the woman always in metro will say off to the children !!! Not always that happened!!! She said that in video like you always will see this people who will harass you and women saying off to children!! I was there!! My sister living there tell now with her children and they are noisy and that not happened to them!! Right few times it happened!! Even about people who peeing in paris!! Its not french thing!! That happen in london, Newyork, San Francisco and i think a lot of big cities!! Maybe in her country too! I will ask people about this!! Also in San Francisco you will find dog and human poops in the street!! I think she was not living in the capital city of new Zealand!! Cause in quora website a lot of people share their experiences in the capital city in her country and the people there complained that the people not nice and the people in her country are very racist!! I surprised when she saying about the nurse here in her video when she saying from my language she knows that im not French so she not treated me will!!! Why she always have negative look!!! Why she didn’t think she was in stress cause there is shortness of nurses there?! I was nurse in paris and I know there is shortness in the nurses in paris!! She just accusing her because she thaught that?!! She is not sure that she treated her like this because she is foreigner!! And also that happened in every country too!! In quora there is question why the American physician are rude?!! So that happened in every country cause good and bad people in everywhere!! No generalized!! And I surprised more when I know from the people who were living in new zealad that the people there so bad and racist and they look to them as a foreigner when they loose their job, they look to the foreigners like how you have a job and im citizen and don’t have a job !! And complaining that the people envious! A lot of people complaining from the people in her country!! So why she talk about the others country if she had the same problem in her country?!! If she was not living in the capital city in her country its not fair to always compare it with paris!! She have to compare the capital with capital city cause most of the problems happened in capital city only!!! I wish if i can go to paris again!! Cause the people there really were good, helpful and loyal!But i go back to my country! Always we are not seeing the problems in our country cause we are citizens! We didn’t ask the expat or immigrants in our countries! Thats why we will surprise when we moved to other country but if we ask the expats or immigrants in our country we will see the same!
My mother is an English nurse who worked in French clinics almost 40 years. She would always tell me how patients insisted on her being the nurse to take care of them because the other nurses were so rough. They'd definitely do with some overhauling in the field of being more human.
Oh Rosie, so sorry to hear about those bad experiences in my country. We definitely don't have a great customer service. Leaving in America, I really enjoy how much nicer people are, customer service is amazing!! I hate those disgusting men and pickpockets in the subway and streets. I believe it can happen anywhere like there are good and bad people everywhere.
Of course almost everything can happen anywhere. But the point is that the scale is not everywhere the same. Some of my friends on Hong Kong lost their smartphones and computers in public area and they could collect them back several days afterwards. Japan is the same. French who came there thought I was crazy not looking every second at my belongings. Just one example. Every single of my colleagues who went to Paris had a “pickpocket “ experience, despite our warnings. They uses to travel the world but Paris was an outlier in this area. So no, it’s not everywhere the same.
I’m sorry I disagree. I live in New York & I’ve also lived in Louisiana and California. In California men will flash you in public places if no one is around. In Louisiana, men will only put their penis on you if you are alone with them without witnesses or they will seduce you and kidnap you then return you back home. In New York, men will flash you in public … but no one will ever just grab you! That’s another level of pervert! I’ve known a Haitian man who spoke fluent French. He was definitely the type to just grab you & stare. That’s a French thing & it’s nothing to play with.
Preach!
I don't know about that, I have travelled quite widely and only ever had this sort of thing happen in Paris. I accidentally once left my wallet on the street in Sydney when I stopped to tie up my shoe and had it returned to my home (an hour from Sydney) by the local police 2 weeks later with all of the money and cards still in it. Now I live in a country town I once left my wallet (many years later) in the trolley at the supermarket outside and returned 3 hours later and it had been returned also with the money still in it.
In England, the nurses and medics are so warm. They joke with you to help take your mind off the pain. They call you darling, sweetheart, and" my luv."
En France les infirmières sont formés pour éviter excessive "fraternisation" et pour les patients "Madame, Monsieur" est conseillé les expressions "ma chéri" etc. sont formellement déconseillé pour éviter rentrer dans le sphère privée des patients. En plus les infirmières en France dont constamment surchargé de travail à cause de sous-effectives partout dans les hôpitaux.
@@maciejniedzielski7496 wow sérieux ?!!!! C'est fascinant !!! C'est tellement triste je trouve :(
I have mixed experiences with nurses in England, but when they were so "warm" to me I found it rather fake and exaggerated, as if they were forced to behave like that to avoid any kinds of complaints from the patients. Can't they just behave normally, as if they were dealing with human adults, not kids they have to educate or love?
Loved the clip. You are such - such - a sincere and charming storyteller!
Regarding the doctors and nurses, it's so true. No empathy whatsoever. To the point where I hated going to the doctors or hospitals and would only go when I was on the verge of dying. Now I live in Australia and dang the change is unreal. I was so afraid to be pregnant here and being mistreated but the nurses were amazing! So gentle and caring even the firm ones.
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Australia nurses are wonderful.
Pain is underminded in France.
You can't show you're in pain or you're bothering people.
It's actually so much less acceptable in other European countries that you'd be astonished.
@@NotEvenFrench Complaining is the national sport :)
Or how about they think you are a dumb foreigner beneath them and they literally don’t give a shit
Pain is undermined in Louisiana too. Louisiana is heavily influenced by France so that explains that.
I am so sorry to hear about your traumatic experience on the Paris metro. Thank you for sharing your story and raising the level of awareness for those who watch your fab channel.
I love your stories, Ms Rosie! Take care & be safe.
I hate that women have to deal with that shit! I'm so sorry you had to experience it. My 19 yr old daughter is moving to NYC for school in September and I dread that kind of thing happening to her. i had an asshole i knew in college pull it out at a party and when i was shocked he laughed and laughed. I was so angry and decided he had no right to do that to me, so i got a beer and dumped it on his crotch. He was pissed and I did not give one F!
Thank you so much for sharing these stories! And I'm so sorry for all that you went through, France/Paris is definitely not an easy place to live sometimes.
Thank you ! It’s good to know and be prepared for the worst and always hoping/waiting for the best 🤞😉
Had a very similar experience with Paris as you did Rosie! I always say I have a love/hate relationship with Paris for these reasons. The useless post office, pretty much daily harassment from some of the men, etc. These crazy/weird/unfortunate things happen but at the same time it's one of the most remarkable places to live and meet intellectual and interesting people. Great video!
You seem to be a very introspective and observational person so your storytelling is always so fun to listen to!
Thank you for this video. I feel sorry for you and send you good vibrations.
Hey Rosie, great video :) I get sad from time to time about not being able to fly to France to visit my friends & family due to Covid restrictions. And then I stumble on your video which reminds me some of the reasons why I left my native country in the first place after living in its 2 biggest cities. There are things I miss, but all the stuff you mentioned - and many others - contribute to a not so great lifestyle on a daily basis. I'm pretty sure growing up in Marseille, where you constantly have to watch your back for pickpockets, where everything is so dirty, etc, hugely contributed to my anxiety. I'm so grateful I now live in a city where I can wear whatever I want, walk wherever I want at whatever time of the day, and not get scared of anything happening to me. Sending love from Sydney xx
You really learned so much about the world in France. Thank you for sharing, so that the rest of us can learn and prepare. Have you ever thought about writing a book in your experiences? I bet it would sell like crazy!
This is a very brave post! Thank you for being so truthful!
I appreciate your honesty so much, you’re very strong for being so open! ♥️
Omg your hospital story reminded me of when i had a C-section in France. I am also an expat here in France. Idk but the medical staff were not very nice and always scolding me when i was not doing great breastfeeding my baby and i was in great pain. It was one of my worst most traumatic experiences in life.
Sorry you got so mistreated, when they should have been supportive and caring. I had a c section with my first baby, it left me feeling so weak and vulnerable, I remember asking a nurse to wait outside whilst I took a shower, she did and helped me back to my bed after, it made a huge difference to me. Funny enough, I wanted to breastfeed but was making a poor job of it, also got very sore with cracking and bleeding. A cleaner who was from Africa actually helped and gave me better advice than the nursing staff! The nurses seemed to be encouraging me to bottle feed. This was in England 24 years ago.
Your fracture knee story is horrible so sorry you had to go through that I was scared Of this while living in France but nothing happened. honestly pregnant black women in America often die because they do not feel heard and the nursing staff and doctor don’t believe they are in pain. They feel they are just being "dramatic " so it’s surprising to me that you experienced this In France being thin, white and pretty. I hope there’s some needed improvement in the medical industry all around the world! Thank you for sharing
I had a feeling La Poste would be in the video when I saw the title 😉
I hope you are well xx
Your middle aged guy in the trench coat feeling you up on a crowded train is not a particularly Parisian phenomenon. When I was 12-14 in New York City going to school on the subway, it would happen to me and my friends routinely. I was mortified and finally told my mother. She told me it had happened to her and her friends too! She repeated the advice she had been given: say in a loud clear voice that the man touching your crotch better stop or...[whatever threat you like]. We called those guys mashers. The first time I spoke up after that, everyone near me started looking for the creep who was bothering me, and the hand disappeared immediately. The key is to speak up- the threat doesn’t matter. Mashers don’t want to be identified or confronted, they just melt away when you use your voice. Pathetic.
All very relatable! I’ve also been mugged in daylight, cried at la poste, had sexual comments shouted at me from cars... the good side is none of that has ever happened to me outside of Paris!
I am surprised it has happened to you only in Paris as you find those gross guys everywhere in France... 🤮
Wow, sorry all that stuff happened to you. That’s a lot of trauma in a short period of time. Glad you’re ok now, but also glad you’re sharing this because a lot of these channels paint very romantic pictures of moving there without the realistic day to day occurrences.
I had the kindest GP in Aix-en-Provence . She went above and beyond with her investigations & time with me. I cannot thank her enough. I was also hospitalised in Aix - yes their were Doctors who were quite cold but the nurses were so nice to me. Overall my experience in the French health system which included Doctors, nurses, specialists, & blood laboratories was of excellent.
Salut Rosie. J'espère que tu vas bien. Merci d'avoir partagé ton histoire !
You're so strong
Can you explain what
Such timing! I’m about to go for a final interview in France lol! ❤️
Bonne chance Cath :)
@@NotEvenFrench Thank you Rosie 💖🌷💖
@@mgparis Merci beaucoup ☺️💖💖
i feel so sorry for u T^T i hope u are completely healed or find healing!!!
When a guy flashes you, just start laughing and pointing at his willy and then hold up your hand with your thumb and index finger close together for a "you're soooooo tiny" visual. Then keep hysterically laughing while walking away. It works great!
This is the best thing I've ever read. J'adore, c'est excellent comme come-back.!
As an indian living in singapore,experiencing bad incidents as an expat here,seeing this video makes me feel like i’m not alone🥺these videos are needed so thankyou for making this one❤️
And I thought that India was unsafe for women, it's nearly the same everywhere then, stay safe.
@@AAND8805 the world is unsafe for women.
@@Myindianlyf I found Singapore One of the safest places I’ve ever been. You felt unsafe there?
About the medical care in France, I totally agree about how they handle you like they do treat you like you are a farm animal. I felt the same about being a foreigner as well. I am still living in France. I really can appreciate you sharing this situations. The men on the metro are terrible how they will cop-a-feel or looking down women's shirts. I hope you are enjoying being home now!
Relatable oh god 🥺😐🙏✨
I love these stories...americans should hear them over and over....i get so tired of people in the u.s. thinking of paris as some sort of paradise. it is not! it's a gritty, grimy, rat infested, over populated cesspool. Expensive and avaricious. So many other lovely places in france to wallow in and absorb the 'culture'.
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Yes. Let's say that France and Paris are not really the same country :)
"Anti Parisianism" seems to be trending in some provincial parts of France...
Yes, Paris is a big urban area and it's not only the idyllic image often depicted in fictions. But it's far from being hell, especially if you enjoy culture.
Not only you'll find some of the greatest things France has to offer, but you'll also have products and cultures from all around the World.
I live in Toulouse, a provincial town and I enjoy it but it's incomparably poor compared to what Paris has to offer in terms of activities, culture or food. There's also rats and criminality in Toulouse.
My friend was with his sister and she was verbally harassed, before he had a chance to defend her, she had marched back to the guy and given him a mouthful! Seems its best to be aggressive back to them they back off, mind you, she is incredibly tall and can be intimidating when angry. Im sorry you had the experience with the guy on the Metro, I think I would have caused a scene at the very least I would have hurt him, even if it was a swift kick to the shins.
I agree 100% about French nurses and doctors I had a very unpleasant experience with a nurse when I was just awaking from an anesthesia for a heavy surgery...she was yelling after me asking me questions whereas I was suffering a lot and was "begging" painkillers and was not really conscious yet. I am a French citizen having unfortunately been often operated and followed by doctors
Hey Rosie, thanks so much for sharing. I consider moving to France for a few months after my bachelors degree which I'll obtain in about a year when we'll hopefully see the back of covid, so that I can go abroad.
That means that I'm very curious about anything French and I'm trying to get as much information as I can. So I really want to thank you for speaking about the things we all have in the back of our minds but either never mention or think of that we'll never experience them - because we think that *that* could never happen to us, right? - and for contributing to creating an awareness for all the less agreeable things.
I lived in France too, and the men who stalked or harassed me were always Tunisians, morrocains , Algerians, never was it native french. You can make out from their accents and obvious looks.
Be carefull. People will hate on you for speaking the truth.
@@Leopold_van_Aubel -
Ethnic Europeans or white french men do this just as much,
Many East Asian women in france face cat-calling and sexual harassment from white french men
But if you let down your guard around native men,,they could use that to trick you to not expect 1 of them.
Thanks for this video, I feel you girl ,I remember when I was living in Paris for a short time I had quite a few weird and scary situations with men on the street.
I was wondering if you can cover in the future how did you start working in Paris, did you had experience for these jobs and how was with the language and confidence issues around starting a new job in a new country with a new language? Sending you love from Spain💖
@@NotEvenFrench I am not sure it was a French who tried to robe you to be honest not even an european if you know what i mean...
You’ve been through so much 😢❤️
Merci pour votre honnêteté. J'ai des filles jumelles et je ne peux pas imaginer l'horreur de ces expériences. J'ai regardé votre chaîne pendant 2 ans et vous avez un excellent moyen de partager des expériences légères avec des problèmes graves. Pas mal - je plaisante!
As an autralian who just moved to france your videos have been great the last 2 years i've been watching - thank you!
I'm sorry about your health care experiences 😢 I've had really nice experinces here in France, once for an operation and twice giving birth with lovely nurses and midwifes.
(Hahaha « she was so lovely. To be fair she was spanish » )
So sorry to hear that you have been treated so badly in the hospital. That sucks !
Omg I’ve missed you. I’ve been starting think more seriously into moving to either France or Québec recently. Also, I’m rewatching your videos about Lingoda, I got to intermediate level in babble and my vocab is great but my conversation and grammar needs some nourishing & I feel like an app can’t deliver that in the same way
Great you are considering Québec. It s a more relaxed environment than France, the cost of life is cheaper and customer service is quite likely to be better. I hope your offshore experience goes well. Good luck!
Thank you for posting this. I've had literally all of these bad experiences in Paris and I'm French, so I don't think any are because of your accent. On Ave de Clichy a man grabbed my crotch as I was passing him on the sidewalk. I yelled "connard" and he ran away but I was so shocked I did nothing else. Also had a black and blue foot for weeks before the doctor finally accepted to do a scan and saw it was broken in several places. Crutches in Paris is the worst - I don't know how people with physical disabilities function in this city. However I also experienced very bad bedside manners when I gave birth in the US, with staff not believing me that my epidural wasn't working and yelling at me. So maybe bad healthcare is not entirely a French problem...
Hi, sorry for your bad experience in health care. But as someone who unfortunately have spent too much time in hospitalS in France of course ( different cities), I have to say that most nurses are really nice and kind. Thankfully never had any bad experience. Doctors are different though they tend to be more harsh ESPECIALLY surgeons from my multiple experiences. They focus on fixing you and get quickly to the next patient and I can't blame them for that. That's their main job, fixing all patients. But the Intern Doctors and nurses and Dr/anesthesiste tend to be the nicer ones. And that's also part of their job to spend time/talk to you before and after the "main Doctor" is done.
Ooohh... that's the same as in italy. They're harsh in the hospital, very true!!
There's no manhood in any male that harasses, or assaults, any woman or girl. It is really deranged that some males think they are intellectuals when the concept of fairness and decency is something that they don't have the intellect to understand (it isn't fair that many males don't want anyone to harass or disrespect them, but they think they can be disrespectful towards others and it is also unfair that males walk around with peace in mind that nobody will likely harasses them, while women and girls are constantly worried, causing some girls to have headaches, insomnia, anxiety and other things). Thank you for speaking out
I had a really bad knee injury in France and was sent away with dislocation, ruptured cruciate ligament and hemorrhaging into my knee. We got to the UK and saw a doctor there and he was horrified and I was in theatre within 2 hours. It took two operations and a year's physio to recover. On the flip side my friend's daughter had leukaemia and had amazing care.
Hey, I am French and your experience at the hospital is infortunnatly the daily routine...
To be fair she was Spanish ahahahah
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@@KoriJaiden She means that she was not French
@@angelinabetty ah
This made me cackle hahaha
Hello I’m so sorry for your bad experience. I hope it’ll never happen again, but recently the Paris RATP and police have amped up their actions against sexual harassment in the metro. There are cameras everywhere in the metro. With a broad description and the approximative time you were in the train and the station the man got off, they could have identified him, especially if it was during his commuting time. I think there’s also an app or a site where you can signal an attack. Some men think they can get away with it and they need to learn the hardest way it’s unacceptable. Even me as a man I got flashed once in Châtelet, and another time a guy sitting opposite me kept touching himself while staring at me. It was chilling. I wasn’t afraid but so creeped out. I’m sorry to got to experience that in my city. It’s a great but harsh place to live, it makes foreigners like you who share their interest and appreciation for our culture even more valuable. Cheers
I havent watched this video yet ..but the comment section has validated my.10 year experience living in france ..my love of the weather, beach and food of the south of france made it tolerable.
I definitely feel your pain on some of these points. I lived in Paris for about a year, 1989-90. I got flashed and had hard-ons pressed up against me more times than I can count. I got blasé enough about it that when the most blatant thing happened, I just couldn't be bothered: My metro car was getting a bit full, but still wasn't too crowded to use the strapontins, and when I got on, a young guy offered me his. In the next couple of stops, the car got a bit fuller, but I still felt OK keeping my seat, that is, until the guy who had been so "polite" proceeded to try to get himself off (no exposed flesh, at least) between my shoulder and the back of the seat. I rolled my eyes and leaned forward enough to leave him high and dry. I was tired and sure wasn't giving up my seat!
The terrorist attacks struck me harder than they might have 25 years after my time there because I lived in the Rue Alibert, and in those pre-cell days I often used payphone just on the intersection where the two restaurants were attacked.
I like your cardigan, it looks cool :)
Love ur channel. Greetings from Dubai
Yikes! Sorry to hear you had these experiences. Some men are just the worst 🤢
I know a French girl who had the most awful experience in a French hospital where they wouldn't treat her until she was lying on the floor vomiting blood 😨
I met three pickpockets a mere 90 minutes after arriving in Paris in Summer 2018 on the #5 line from Gard du Nord. Luckily they were pretty obviously dodgy about it so I immediately put my hands in my pockets, only to feel another hand slide in over mine. Again luckily, they weren't into physical violence so I could move away without losing anything or getting hurt.
It's nice seeing France immigration policy with your own eyes, isn't it ?
Social distance is high in France. It’s highest in Belgium. In South Korea it’s blamed for high rate of aviation disasters.
You are right. Hospital staff in any level of care are supposed to be nice. It’s part of ethics! They are nice here in the USA. No excuse for them being harsh to you!
I’m sorry that happened to you.
Also , that was awful about your experience with the post. You look to be about my daughter’s age. She would have punched that guy in the trench coat while yelling loudly at him!
OMG! that's all crazy! haha I feel you with the metro! I live in Nice, so there's no such thing in here, but I'm from São Paulo in Brazil and it is JUST like Paris xD~~
I wonder if the parisian medical care staff is worst too, I've never been to anything half as bad as a knee operation but my general practicioner is french as is lovely... I mean, it would make sense that parisian staff is overworked and lost their hearts...
Anyways, just discovered your videos! Love it!! =)
If I had a foreign friend moving to France, and looking for a job, I would definitely not recommend Paris. In terms of safety, and overall experience of France, there are much better cities to live in, like Lyon, Nantes, Strasbourg... I lived in Bordeaux, Paris and Grenoble, and by far Paris is the worst. However, you can get mugged in any French city. I got mugged in Bordeaux. Although Grenoble seems like the worst (coz it's known for its urban riots in the South parts), for me it was the best. The tram is great, the food is great, you're so close to the mountains... It's by far the least attractive large city in France (maybe with Saint Etienne), but for some reason it's very nice to live there. Paris is too dirty, too noisy, and too unsafe in general. If you're not a strong man, you're gonna get bad experiences like yours for sure, and even then, you're up for some weird shit. I had a homeless guy following me and trying to hit me coz I didn't want to buy him a coffee. I was hit by a car (not badly) when I had the green light on a pedestrian crossing.
Hi Rosie so sorry about your experience but just because a health person doesn't mean they are kind or compassionate happens everywhere good you talk about all thus so true God Bless hugs 😘🙏
These are nothing like my two stays in a hospital, once for a broken ankle. In that case I went to the Georges Pompidou. It was Sunday so a bit crowded, but only an hour or two wait. A young doctor had me x-rayed. When it came back, it didn't clearly show anything, but she wasn't satisfied and sent me in for another one which showed a fracture in a small bone. A perceptive doctor.
It was too late to operate, so I was sent to a nearby smaller hospital that had a room. The next day I was operated on and had to spend a second night in the hospital. Then the third day, they gave me crutches and brought me an ambulance which took me to my apartment building and the two people in it insisted on helping me to my apartment even though I had an elevator.
Everyone was very kind and none of it cost me anything because of the Sécu and my mutuelle. The other stay was not so serious. After seeing a couple or so of your videos, I think that you are too concerned about yourself and not suited to living in a foreign country.
I love listening to you on this channel, you are so eloquent, concise and thorough. While you speak, your eyes are always shining and it is so cute to see! These stories were not so pleasant, especially the one in the Metro. :( Such a violation. yuck. I was grabbed the locker room way while dancing, by a lesbian woman, and I was fucking pissed! and 16! I also froze. So many times I imagine I have an invisibility cloak on me and make myself invisible in public
Sexual harassment was prolific in Rome as well but for the most part they were kind of "ugh this is annoying/gross" rather than scary. Not that this excuses it, of course. About the worst thing that happened to me was being flashed while I was out with a friend near a tourist area and a situation where I was getting off the metropolitana and felt that I had to hide from one guy (I ducked in behind a group of tourists then ran to a friend's house - and he wasn't actually Italian!).
I would lo Love to see a video on the different arondismonts of Paris the good the bad you know best places to live best food etc.
My médecin traitant is soo lovely! So patient with me when I first arrived and struggled to speak. I've only been to a hospital once, to support a friend, and the doctor was really arsey with her! So maybe it's the culture in hospitals? Certainly all the healthcare professionals I've come across elsewhere (GP/gyno/dermatologist etc) have been lovely and friendly!
Your experience in france?
@@nonaomaba720 yep!
Hi I love your videos about your experiences in france. I am french and I agree whith almost all subjects you talk about... french are so rude sometimes 😬 its a shame for all of us!
Omg the nurses also can be so cold and rough in Serbia 😢
10 yrs ago I was a visitor in Paris for 3 months..and in that very brief period of my stay there were a few things that put me off Paris for life..
Life in Paris was not at all I had imagined! It was not romantic at all ..maybe 50 yrs ago it might have been. Ok Things that put me off Paris for good are
1.Many parts of Paris are actually quite dirty, period!
2.Pickpockets and thieving were a common occurences..I ca boldly say this because I witnessed it right in front of my eyes..it was done by a group of youths, in a fastfood restaurant of all places!
I was constantly being extra vigilant . I had my handbag close to me at all times. A chain was attached to my wallet whic was then attached to my handbag! Double security I guess.
3. I was in a public toilet in a shopping center and guess what I encountered? A couple was making out //yep disgusting on a dirty floor! half naked..it was not the least sexy or sensual ..it was quite dirty ..literally and figuratively.
4. I saw beggars all over the metro area and various street corners..a lot of them seemed to be from foreign countries.
5. I was approached by foreign men ..Spanish, Arabs, Morrocan, algerian and other North African men!! My french was bad but I do understand what they want me to do to them!!
It was scary. I was addressed as "chinoise thisand chinoise that" actually I originally from Singapore of Malay ethnicity not a chinoise, lol!
6, Drug addicts all over the city..how do I know they were addicts. It was obvious from the way they moved and behaved. and the worst thing was they were laying by the side walk literally on nthe side walk!!! It was such a pathetic sight I felt sorry but also fearful and couldnt help wondering how these people got to such a state ....All that commercial about Paris only 20 percent were accurate..the rest were created by the genius of the tourist industry. .On the whole the French people treated me decent despite of my ina bility to converse fluently..I think its because I was friendly when I approach for help..I would go up to them boldly so 70 percent of the time I was getting the help I sought after. Young people were the best coz they were eager to practice their english.. I was at the low point of my life when I visited Paris, but in the end I became very strong having to survive the atmosphere..I had to be strong ..there were no choice. Paris is wonderful if you're some celebrity with tons of money staying in a 5 star hotel. Not me ..I stayed at the cheapest dorm but in that 3 months I have learned so much about life. No I wont be in any hurry to visit that iconic city ever again but I have to say thanks for the valuable experiences..yeah Paris Made Me Strong😀😀 But Im so glad I am now living in Christchurch, NZ! Thank you for your wonderful channel and your shared stories about your stay in Paris!!
Hello, good to hear that you were in France with different experiences of course, good and bad.
I studied in Lille for a few years, have you been there? You worked for a good company too.
I like New Zealand too as a place to live. Do you still live in France in a large city or small town, or do you ever go back there?
Writing from Canada (bilingual here it seems).
Ms. Rosie, I have a suggestion for a video. Are there programs for older professionals, over thirty, in France?
La Poste: old public service that got privatized. Previous employees, the happy few, got a tremendously good working condition status, while new employees and subcontractors have to endure twice as much instability and pressure as in other sectors to compensate.
It results in a rapidly degrading quality of service, with package taking forever to be delivered or often getting lost - while subcontractors will "se payer sur la bête" (pay themselves on the beast, take some of the spoils) by simply stealing packages.
It happens often during busy holiday seasons: since La Poste can not hire more employees (because they would have to keep them the whole year 'round due to the special status), they simply get thousands of random subcontractors, without checking their actual record because of the urgency, so repeat offenders will simply hop from one subcontractor to another (or create another bogus delivery small company) and start stealing again. There is footages of these subcontractors opening countless packages in the back of their van and taunting the camera with all the iPhones and other luxury items they got, nothing was ever done to fight that.
By the time these waves of theft are reported to La Poste, the rush of the holiday season is over and the subcontractors are gone, so La Poste simply doesn't do anything and simply tell people to contact the stores they purchased the goods from to get reimbursed, or if it's private parcels they simply direct them to their customer service, where people are driven in circles until they give up or agree for a limited payment that doesn't cover the actual losses. The insurance rate for e-shops delivery in France are mostly confidential but it's certain to be higher than in other western countries due to that systematic theft. It's been happening for decades, I personally know several people who actually did that as early as in the 80s, stealing package as temp delivery employees, and it's still ongoing 4 decades later.
For these reasons the french online economy isn't growing as fast as it could, as people are afraid to order anything too expensive (and easily resellable like electronics) in the mail. Large chains have developed retail-shop delivery a lot to counter that, so people order their goods online to be delivered there, allowing the e-shops to rely on their own delivery contract, insurance and contractors.
The biggest problem with the delivery sector is that La Poste still holds a _de facto_ monopoly over it, and the other options available, possible competitors, love to maintain the situation (as a cartel) to keep the prices high and the quality of service super low.
I've had countless horrors stories with La Poste and its subcontractors it's just crazy to realize it's happening in a developed country.
Funniest was the most expensive delivery option, a 24-hours delivery service, the fastest of La Poste, taking several MONTHS to arrive - because the logistic hub where it needed to be sorted was basically put on hold the whole time, due to local undisclosed shenanigans between the higher ups, subcontractors and unions. The whole time my package was there but I was not allowed to go pick it up, when I went there the facility (in an industrial area) had a waiting line outside that rivaled with Apple's launch days, with dozens of people waiting under the sun, trying to finally get their packages.
The kicker? When nearly 3 months later they finally agreed to go through the gigantic pile of backlog waiting there, they did not actually delivered them. They logged into the system (that I was checking every single day) that the delivery address was not available, as if there was no one there, then dropped the packages in an adjacent storage depot they had registered as an "alternative drop off site" (to still get paid for the delivery - nb: normally they would have to drop it off at the site nearest to the delivery address, not the nearest to _their_ depot), *literally* next to the sorting hub, over the fence.
When I went there to finally get my package, several kilometers away from the initial delivery address, there were thousands and thousands of packages sitting there, showing how incredibly dysfunctional the system was. The sender had paid a high price for a rapid delivery, and the package wasn't just delayed and held hostage for months, it wasn't actually delivered to the address or even a nearby sites, it was simply thrown over the fence to a 3rd party depot, while falsifying the package tracker app to still get paid the full amount by the company. That's how corrupt La Poste and its subcontrators are, it's an absolute disaster.
At this point we're all waiting for La Poste to crash and burn, hoping that whatever comes next might be better.
What a logistics nightmare!
The equivalent of all these things have happened to me in America. Different towns and cities in America. I think that's just people on occasion no matter where you are.
A lot of my packages that my family has sent me never gets delivered, I have to go to the post office and ask if I received a package and it’s always there waiting. I always wonder what if someone sends me a surprise package? I’m sure I would never receive it!
Is this the same for Fed Ex?
@@chateau7 to be honest I’m not even sure Fed Ex exists in France as I’ve only been here 6 months. Sorry, I’m not much of a help😂
@@SamFournier Fed Ex exists in France.
I had the same experience..they have a very clinical manner not caring about the emotional needs of patient. Not like Uk. The doctor was lovely, the nurses very cold.
@@NotEvenFrench en France les infirmières sont formés pour éviter s'adresser aux patients autrement que "Madame, Monsieur", les expressions comme ",ma chérie etc" sont formellement déconseillé pour respecter la sphère privée. En plus les infirmières dans les hôpitaux français sont surchargés de travail constamment à cause de sous-effectives partout dans les hôpitaux.
12:17 I feel you.
well in the UK the healthcare is 100% free and they are overrun with people YET they are all lovely... they spend the whole time talking sweetly, calling you 'my love / sweetheart / darling' when my daughter spent the night in hospital in the uk she basically didn't want to leave because the nurses were so nice to us.
@@NotEvenFrench I think it's just general culture... I'm not from London, so maybe it's worse there. But where I'm from in the uk, South Coast, people are just lovely generally. Happy, friendly, caring etc.
@@Leila2023_ all true but I'm sure the waiting times to get an appointment or an operation are better in France...
@@dream-67 nor necessarily. It depends where you live. I come from a town in the uk not a major city. So moving from a town in the uk to the suburbs of Paris my experience of living in France was that everything was worse in France. Now I've moved to the countryside in France so now everything seems much better in France... A lot of 'life in France' blogs are from the perspective of Paris only.
@@dream-67 everything relating to health care (for me) in the uk is much better than in France...I never had a problem with waiting times for operations in the uk.
@@Leila2023_ how nice for you! It has been devastating for our family but as long as you are OK....
In France, gentle nurses are only in movies xD
This made me laugh!
Haha true
My worst experience with la Poste was trying to open an account with their banking service. Gave up after 2 months, took me one hour at BNP 🤦♀️
@@danielbradford7301 yes that's it (the full name is BNP Paribas).
Not all banks have the same policies or offer the same benefits. And even if the brand has a good reputation, you can always come across an agency where the director or the agency employees are not so great... I had a bad experience with BNP in my city, on the other hand Crédit Agricole is top level customer service and bank charges.. at least for me 🤗 the best is to listen what people say, try and see. Good luck 😉
2012, groups of street kids in the metro, pick poketed my iPhone, but my son-in-law ran after them and got it back, we've always had good experiences with le Poste, (touch wood), on a personal level and sending parcels to our daughter and grarndkids, some quite big parcels, imagine, toy kitchen, and the last time we were in France, was 5/2016, just after the terrorist attacks of 11/2015, our daughter ensured we didn't need to visti Paris, even had us catch the Eurostar, via Eurodisney, at Lil to go to London, when we usually catch it from Grand de Nord, added an extra 5hrs. Missed another trip, to France, that was planned for 5/2020, because of COVD-19.
At the hospital, you definitely had a bad experience. It's not really the norm but unfortunately it happens. One of the luxuries we have is that if we don't like a healthcare professional we can go to another one without any consequences.
The postal services are indeed getting worse and worse. It's even worse since some of the branches have been semi privatised.
Sleezy men behaving gross is not proper to Paris, I've experienced it in many big cities. Back when i was wearing high heels, i literally crushed a guy's foot in the metro because he started rubbing against me at peak hour. I hope that will have taught him a lesson.
Terrorist attacks shocked us all but unfortunately, we got used to living with the permanent threat. I was 14 when I experienced my first one (the rer b explosion). I was actually supposed to be in that train. I guess it's the price to pay for living in a country with a strong diplomatic presence and sometimes controversial positions making narrow minded people angry.
I really identify with your healthcare experience. I was staying in France just outside Monaco. I became sick and had to go to their urgent care. The hospital was so dirty. No human in site at entry, only a door bell and a speaker fo triage. I'm American and felt I had better service than the locals. I saw a man have an apparent heart attack in the hallway on the floor since he had no bed. I had a bed and I was paying cash. I wasn't given a call bell, no check in with a nurse. I was there for hours with no interaction with anyone laying in a bed. They had no idea what was wrong. There were more issues but it was shocking compared to the US system that I work in everyday.
Yeah it's our politics fault. They've managed hospitals like companies and cut down the founds so much.... I've had an accident and after seeing how i've been treated (not healed corectly, i'll keep sequel for my entire life) i definitely wanna say : don't feel safe if you have to be treated in france. Same for the urgency : if you call theml there's a chance that they tell you to come by yourself which hapenned to a neigbhour of mine who was literally dying and had to drive his car to hospital. Fortunately he survived...
@@dappidy3763 at least it is MUCH cheaper than the American one. My daughter went to hospital recently and was well treated. I pay only € 63 for everything. We are not perfect at all and we must improve so many things. You can also fix your damned American health care system where lots of American people complain
@@dappidy3763 at least we dont die when we cant pay for insulin when we are diabetic. Only in America
wow, now I understand why so many died in 2003 in France during the heat wave...they don't have a way to treat people that includes clean safe facilities...
@@karmacounselor It's simply because they're were massively unprepared in 2003, but during covid proportionately more people died in America. 2556 per million against 1906 per million in France.
The sexual harassment incidents you experienced sounds horrendous and traumatic. It's crazy to me that this kind of assault is going on in Paris so freely. I can easily see that if this were happening in NZ, it would probably be normal for men to get tased by women and it would probably be encouraged by police. I hope this changes in France. For another video, it would be interesting to hear about moments in NZ that you have had (since being back here) in which you thought to yourself "whaaat thhhe f.....ck?" lolol. It could be things that would have been normal to you before you lived in Paris and now since you're back, it seems weird. Lol. Take care Rosie!
In regards to your permanent contact, it seems they knew you weren’t happy, were undervalued, and you’d leave them. You have nothing to feel bad about~ they’re the ones that let you get away.
La Poste. It's French for crap.
Don't forget about la SNCF!
It's funny because it's true.
Je pense qu'on ne peut pas non plus généraliser. Oui, il y a des problèmes avec la Poste. Le principal c'est qu'ils sont en général très désagréable. En ville surtout (je rappelle que Paris n'est pas la France). A tel point que même entre eux, ils ne se font pas de cadeau. La dernière fois que j'ai déménagé, pourtant dans le même arrondissement mais je changeais de bureau. Le nouveau bureau n'avait rien fait au bout de 3 semaines. Je suis allé à l'ancien, et le gars que je connaissais me dit "Ah eux là-bas, faut rien leur demander... Ce sont des c...!" 😄. Sinon le service ne fonctionne pas si mal. Actuellement avec les contraintes sanitaires, j'utilise bcp la livraison Chronopost et franchement ce n'est pas si mal. Il faut comparer à d'autres pays. Ma femme est Mexicaine par exemple... Y'a même pas photo 😄
La sécurité sociale , also
La poste is the worst thing ever Et La Banque postale aka Fiante postale is even
Watching Ms. Rosie makes me miss my time abroad, living in the US and in Argentina. I think it is time for Europe, in due time. I miss the smell of a foreign country and the little things and the thrill (even though there are bad things as well, surely).
I was not young and gorgeous at all. Around 45 to 50. I am American from the South. Friendly by nature. A man turned around and looked at me. I looked at him because it was normal to make eye contact. He did not speak nor did I. I just kept walking and did not see him anymore. He followed me suddenly cornering me in a shop
and grabbed out his condoms to show me. I was shocked. I screamed in French and English go away. He did but I looked over my shoulder the entire trip. No eye contact was weird to me but I learned the hard way.
French emergency system is like a joke, but not very funny. In fact, if you have a pain inside, or you have a invisible disease, (not all) nurses won't take it seriously at the point that you can literally be called a “psychopath”. It happened to my mom several times since 2 or 3 years, she has endometriosis, a very painful disease no signs of it are visible, many times she got mocked, we haven't took her seriously, once at a meeting with a nurse, she expressed her pain and cried because of it while the nurse couldn't stop laughing (of course, not every nurse act like that but a lot are). Also, It has nothing to do with unprofessional nurses but she also did a miscarriage (not recognize by French government) and France is one of the only country in Central/Westert Europe to not allow refunds when an ivf fails, that's quite sad when you see that and the the percentage of success is average, for cheaper, you must go to Spain.
I think every single person in France had bad expériences with LA POSTE .... Worst customer service ever!
Police don’t go where there’s trouble. Walking as a non-Muslim through Mollenbeck is scary today.
You should see the film "Thomas in Love" 2000 about some creepy french situation of online medical.
Having lived in London for the last 6 years and naturally travelling around Europe and to France many times I too changed my perception of the world once the terrorist attacks happened across the continent and the UK.
Reminds me so much of The Devil Wears Prada - working at Louis Vuitton they must have thought you were so 'lucky' to work there you'd be willing to do any menial task, but you have a master degree and experience... the arrogance of their expectation ooh lalalala!!!!
Very sorry for the bad and creepy experiences. Am sure it's like other large cities such as London, Rome, or New York. Less of these sorts of things occur in less populated areas. Pepper spray!
I'm in Rennes and can relate to these stories but to a lesser extent. I got followed a lot when I first moved here, I think I was giving off a vulnerable lost tourist vibe. Doesn't happen at all any more, I don't know if it's because I look more at home or if I look too old for the creeps now 🤣
@@Jcrams I would bet you look and carry yourself more like a local.
How is the medical coverage works in France?
I think creepy guys happen in all big cities, I grew up in NY and I had countless encounters with flashers, being followed, creepy cab drivers. That worst incident was when I was on a empty subway & I saw this man approach me and sit directly across from me. I was reading a book at the time but my gut kicked in, but I thought it was because the man was black and I had to tell myself that I'm not that type of person. Turns out that my gut was just trying to tell me that this man was bad and I am not racist.