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More young French saying 'au revoir' to their homeland
Paris (AFP) - Jessica caught the travel bug and never came back, Frederic wanted a bigger market for his start-up and Nicolas was just tired of the vexing daily grind in France that was eating away at his joie de vivre.
So they left to Australia, New York or Canada, becoming part of the growing wave of young French citizens seeking a future elsewhere.
The official statistics agency INSEE said this week that between 2006 and 2013, the number of French emigrating jumped from 140,000 a year to 200,000, 80 percent of them between 18 and 29 years old.
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So what's fueling the exodus; high taxes, lack of good job opportunities in France? I heard years ago they weren't going to be able to support all the people who would be retiring in the future; a similar situation to what's expected to happen with our social security system. They tried bringing in a lot of immigrants, thinking that would add more taxpayers to the country and that back fired on them so their future probably looks as bleak as ours right now and any drastic moves needed to correct it such as raising the retirement age goes over like a lead balloon.