> The French may not work 60-hour weeks, but at least they have the good sense to make the most of the time they've been granted on the planet.
France is the number one country in the world for antidepressant drugs consumption...
France is the number one country in the world for antidepressant drugs consumption...
Interestingly (well, in a grim sort of way), according to this, the suicide rate is pretty high in France, one of the highest in western Europe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...
That's surprising to me, I would have thought France would show up somewhere between places like Italy and Spain (which have low rates despite being relatively a bit poorer), and more northerly, gray places like Germany. Belgium is quite high up there too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_suici...