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Re: Starting your first business in France? Here are the steps, and some great tips

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Post by deodorel » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 1:09 PM UTC

digitalengineer wrote: post #70

guylhem wrote: post #61

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> Don't forget that should you succeed you'd be regarded with jalousy and hatred. While the rest of your article may have some exaggerations, that's true and that's what is shaping my decision. I can live with some insecurity, I can live with deadbeat companies trying to avoid paying their bills and laws preventing me from hiring - I'll just go solo and focus on foreign clients. But if on top of that I'm hated and di…

I've met the militairy police in Paris as well. I was obviously not French (way too tall for the average French guy, can't talk the language and not wearing French-looking clothes). Intimidating bunch. One even flipped open his holster holding his pistol before talking to me in front of the subway. Couldn't understand a word he said and he wasn't really willing to talk English. Let me go on my way again. I kept think…

The nerve on that police guy ... he wasn't willing to speak English ... like if he was in your beloved US of A everyone will be chatting around with him in French. Start learning a few foreign languages before snubbing around people for not speaking "your" language.

Re: Starting your first business in France? Here are the steps, and some great tips

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Post by deodorel » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 1:14 PM UTC

megablast wrote: post #95

guylhem wrote: post #24

Some incorrections here and there in the article, I want to add some fixes: - I wouldn't say the exigence of having a bank account is humiliating for a company. The process of opening one can be, however. But you can pick up any bank you want in any EU country you want. They can't "discriminate" against say a Luxembourg bank if you think this bank will serve you better. That's the EU market- same currency, and they c…

> BTW you know why there's so much red tape with french bank? bankers are legally responsible if you launder money using their services and if they didn't ask you basic questions designed to flag such cases. To do anything in France requires a lot of red tape. To join a gym or go on a fun run you need a certificate from your doctor, which they charge you 70 euros. As to your other sentiments, after the last 6 months…

"To do anything in France requires a lot of red tape. To join a gym or go on a fun run you need a certificate from your doctor, which they charge you 70 euros."

That's not true, you can get the certificate from your "family" doctor, and the cost is probably 22 euros, fully returned by the secu + mutuelle (if you have one). So pretty much 0.

also you can do quite a lot of things online, pay your taxes, manage your account, order copies for your birth certificates and many more ... you just have to use them before complaining.

Re: Starting your first business in France? Here are the steps, and some great tips

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Post by digitalengineer » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 10:33 AM UTC

deodorel wrote: post #101

digitalengineer wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've met the militairy police in Paris as well. I was obviously not French (way too tall for the average French guy, can't talk the language and not wearing French-looking clothes). Intimidating bunch. One even flipped open his holster holding his pistol before talking to me in front of the subway. Couldn't understand a word he said and he wasn't really willing to talk English. Let me go on my way again. I kept think…

The nerve on that police guy ... he wasn't willing to speak English ... like if he was in your beloved US of A everyone will be chatting around with him in French. Start learning a few foreign languages before snubbing around people for not speaking "your" language.

Funny. I talk Dutch, German, English, Frisian and a little -just a little- French. But if they talk really fast I can't understand.

Re: Starting your first business in France? Here are the steps, and some great tips

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Post by rodelrod » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 10:38 AM UTC

guylhem wrote: post #71

rodelrod wrote: post #68

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I live there, just next to the train station that you describe as being in a war state, and while there are worrying incidents in the outskirts and suspicious neighbourhoods, center Paris is by far the safest city I've ever lived in, and the only one where my women friends feel safe enough to walk alone at 3am. If we're playing the anedoctal evidence game, the only place I was ever seriously threatened ("I will kill…

Please enlighten me. Were you living in the Caribbean, or just a tourist? What were you doing? By any chance, were you going to the friday night? (St Lucia is right next to my island - been there too, there is some unsafety but nothing too worrying) There is not so much hate- we have people from all shapes and colors, and all creeds too. But FYI, in some places, including in the FWI, you should know tourist are not v…

I was in the docks, arriving by boat from another island. Like everyone in that boat, we were held up for many hours waiting to get our passport stamped and a bunch of young locals started harassing our girlfriends (we were 6). We were the last to leave the passport check because officers didn't know what to do with people from my country (apparently we were the first ones there, so the passports were held). When we got out, these guys were waiting for us in a pickup truck outside and I walked up to them to have a chat before things got out of control, and while we were still next to the customs office. It's an open world we're living in. I realize many tourists can be unpleasant and disrespectful, but hating tourists is just as stupid as hating immigrants. If you don't like their actions, put rules in place to avoid them.