This is the conclusion of my trip.

One last quick note I wanted to make was the difference in technology available to the mass in Europe.  Broadband has reached more household in comparison to us here.  Also, most people can get 6 to 8mgb/s for the price we pay for 1.5 here, which we rarely achieve anyway.

All in all, I am very happy here for a few reasons.  There is a freedom being here I can’t find in France.  I can still do what I want to do here, professionally, more so than in France.  People work the same amount of hours there with less pay.  However, they get more holidays and travel more.  This plays a very important role in their society, they are much more aware of world news and politics.  I learned about countries I never heard through the news here.  Most people were proficient in their understanding of world matters.  We are the greatest country but we know very little of others.

Case in point, even our intelligence expert know close to nothing about the ethnics and cultures differences of the middle-East.  A very scary thought.

Of course choosing between life in California or Nice is not an easy choice.  I love Nice for its deep and age old culture, great food and sheer beauty, but I prefer living here because people are simply happier and you can do more.

I find people here to be, in general happier, more positive and ready to tackle on anything.  I understand this can be a very negative thing in some situations.  After all, life is what you make of it.  Reality starts with thoughts and the Universe bends over backward to make it possible.