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Anglosphere countries are very bad at housing.
Source: https://cps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/How-Many-Homes-Does-the-UK-Need-.pdf
What are house prices in France like?
old and "full of character" (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.
compare that with Germany where a landlord has to replace the floors/kitchen/damn roof every 6/7 years, under the pretext of forced maintenance which they then use to jack up the rent based on the mandatory improvements.
I genuinely don't know which is better
You might have mis-read my comment, what are their prices like, relative to ours?
Basically a bit like our old terrace houses that are full of damp and way too small for modern life.
oh sorry -- well cheaper than german houses that's for sure.
Along the Rhine valley, they have a double whammy of Swiss being unable to buy houses in Switzerland, so they go buy them in Germany as buy-to-let, pricing out the Germans who can't compete with Swiss salaries, and so the Germans go buy French houses which drives up their prices for the French.
I'm not answering your question at all am I lmao
Have you considered a career in politics?
"That would be an ~~ecumenical~~ civicocratic matter"