Britain offers better living environment than France

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Britain offers better living environment than France and Germany

A massive 93% of the British are happy with their standard of living, compared to just 76% of Frenchies.

Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy?
UK - "Yes" 39%​
France - "Yes" 31%

Germany - "Yes" 24%

Are you satisfied with your standard of living?
UK - "Yes" 93%

Germany - "Yes" 85%
France - "Yes" 76%​
Are you confident about the future of your pension?
UK - "Yes" 50%​
France - "Yes" 32%

Germany - "Yes" 25%


Do you feel there is a risk that you could one day fall into poverty?

France - "Yes" 28%

UK - "Yes" 25%

Germany - "Yes" 23%


Work is too demanding and stressful.

Germany - 39%

France - 37%

UK - 34%

Likelihood of finding a job requiring the same skills and experience

UK - 6.8

France - 5.9

Germany - 4.8

Do you think life in general will get better over the next 12 months?

UK - "Yes" 48%

France - "Yes" 45%

Germany - "Yes" 20%

Do you think the life of children today is easier than those of your generation?

UK - "Yes" 16%

France - "Yes" 8%

Germany - "Yes" 3%


Living Environmental Scale (In order to provide an overview of the extent of life satisfaction in the Member States, a scale was constructed with 11 items from the life satisfaction factor that relate to the living environment. The scale runs from 1 to 5 and the closer the figure is to 5 the better the living environment is perceived to be. EU mean: 3.78 )​
UK - 3.98 [above the EU mean]

Germany - 3.82
Spain - 3.80
France - 3.75 [substandard sh*thole]​
Source: Eurobarometer, Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission
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