And based on levels.fyi, I saw some guys with 4-5 YoE getting $90k TC at Google and it seems that they are happy. A $110K TC in France is about €100k TC and after all taxes it will be less than 5,000€ a month. The price per m2 in Paris is around 10k/m2. With this salary, you could borrow €415k over 25 years. So you could get a 41m2 apartment (440 square feet).
Should I be giving a fuck about this
Hence, I would never start a business there!!!
Most of Europe is like this anyway. They lost WW2 to America.
They love to talk shit and their infrastructure can't even support A/C. Which is honestly hilarious. Imagine being so holier than thou but your own citizens don't get A/C.
Exactly! They say they don't "need" AC because it rarely gets warm. But then they get lots of heat waves and they blame that on "climate change." If they will just install AC we will not need this discussion.
At Facebook people share their compensation review letters. And those letters are localized so they get their rating in French and oh boy there are so many not so bright metamates who admires those letters and ratings being in French.
I love when people say “I bought a flat in Spain for $130K, Spain is so cheap!!” But the average HHI over there is like $25K USD so
https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/marbella-software-developer-jobs-SRCH_IL.0,8_IC2485334_KO9,27.htm 20k, after taxes and everything it’s like $10 per hour.
France is notorious for this. Socialism, regulations, and “protections” made it very uncompetitive even in comparison to other European Countries. There are tons of stories of people from France and Germany working in Netherlands. I’ve seen a lot of cases of French moving to Central Europe for cost and quality of life.
But Emily in Paris.
Socialist country isn’t great for making $$… SHOCKER
1sqmtr = 10.78 sqft So 10k per sqmtr is approximately 1K/sqft, with euro to dollar conversion this is almost same as Bay Area sqft rate, in fact you get bigger lot & better salary in Bay Area than Paris. Shit!! OP is right, feeling sorry for French.
Shhhhhhh! They have free health care