Forget Paris: Stymied by Socialist Policies, the French Start to Quit France

Ernest Hemingway once described Paris in spring as a time when “there were no problems except where to be happiest.”

Clearly Hemingway did not foresee the springtime of 2013. For many of Paris’ residents right now — in fact, for many French in general — the answer to the question of where to be happiest is: pretty much anywhere but France...Hollande’s efforts to raise taxes on wealthy residents and capital-gains taxes on businesses, and to stop people from stashing their money in offshore bank accounts, have wide support among French voters, who have for years pushed to have the rich to contribute more toward the government coffers... more 》Stymied by Socialist Policies, the French Start to Quit France | TIME.com