I've worked on both sides of the pond. Trust me, entrepreneurs in France/Europe work as hard as the others!

I understand but how about working days? if you want you can always work when you want with a better time management..

"Working days" is an alien concept when you run your own business. As for the second sentence, all I can say is that I think it's incredibly naive.

He is correct on sentence two, if you value control of your time over certain amounts of money.

Well, in some big companies or in the administration, they may work 4 days an half. In all small companies in France, especially in the IT field, we work at least the same amout of hours than in SF :) So that's not really the problem.

35 hours / week doesn't apply for engineers (and even less for entrepreneurs)

how about the future? what do you think about free studying? I think is a big deal.. But.. maybe I am just subjective because I prefer europe over SF...

He also could rellocate and send his children in France for their studies, he certainly have family there who will be happy to host them :-).

and I am not talking only about how people are.. in france or SF... I see europe more sociable...