Gloomy France vs. Upbeat Britain?

[copenhagen]

Originally Posted by Karri

There's something like 3-400k French living in London. Are you saying they are mostly millionaires escaping Hollandaise?

Oooh the strawman question. They will be partially people like that but as the millioniares that are the few often tend to be the business creators and leaders for the employment of the many, that's not good. They mostly though seem to be people who are moving to a more business friendly environment which considering our monstrous corporate red tape says a lot.

[copenhagen]

Originally Posted by stalin

the West is better at it though.

"My Dad is better than your Dad la la la la"

[Snowygerry]

Originally Posted by copenhagen

Oooh the strawman question. They will be partially people like that but as the millioniares that are the few often tend to be the business creators and leaders for the employment of the many, that's not good. They mostly though seem to be people who are moving to a more business friendly environment which considering our monstrous corporate red tape says a lot.

I think you may be disappointed -

Belgium has in recent years implemented a number of schemes to attract foreign capital like this one:

Notional_Intrest_Deduction_2011

They have been reasonably succesful in that we have become somewhat of a tax haven for investment money, it has however been found that without strict employment requirements the positive effects on employment are negligible.

What you get mostly are rich, private citizens, or "mailbox" companies that have their administrative HQ in Belgium but actual activities abroad.

Both add little to no employment while costing a fortune since native companies of course also happily make use of the offered deductions.

[Karri]

Originally Posted by copenhagen

Oooh the strawman question. They will be partially people like that but as the millioniares that are the few often tend to be the business creators and leaders for the employment of the many, that's not good. They mostly though seem to be people who are moving to a more business friendly environment which considering our monstrous corporate red tape says a lot.

Quite, but is London more business friendly because it is London or because of French tax increase? Like I said: it is the economical center of Europe...

[copenhagen]

Originally Posted by Karri

Quite, but is London more business friendly because it is London or because of French tax increase? Like I said: it is the economical center of Europe...

Push me pull you basically...

[slick_miester]

Pffft. You Limeys, Frogs, and Russkies don't know what a sh*t train station looks like. Like it isn't bad enough that Penn Station's beautiful Indiana marble and iron and glass came down fifty years ago so all that's left is a vast miserable underground catacomb, but our favorite public agency, the MTA, pumped $530 million dollars into totally redoing the South Ferry station -- only they forgot to waterproof it. Now the harbor leaks in and it's contaminated with mold.

You Europeans: you just look for things to gripe about, like spoiled trophy wives.

[redcoat]

Originally Posted by Karri

There's something like 3-400k French living in London. Are you saying they are mostly millionaires escaping Hollandaise?

No. There has been a high concentration of French citizens living in the UK for a number of years.
From what I've read about them, they are attracted to the UK by the relatively lack of red tape involved in setting up businesses in the UK, compared to France.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18234930

[Salinator]

Originally Posted by Fodder76

A few years ago a £1.00 shop opened up in the main street of a town in England. It was doing a roaring trade until a shop opened across the road that sold everything for £0.99 and stole all its trade.

Someone obviously played EVE online

Over here there on a very busy street the is a corner store named "Cheaper Cigarettes". A competitor opened up at the corner across the street named "Cheaper than Cheaper Cigarettes". Shortly after that, a third competitor opened up in another corner at this intersection with the name "Cheaper than Cheaper than Cheaper Cigarettes"! The third guy is now gone, because it appears that you cannot survive without an actual margin of profit. The other two is still at it, although they seemed to have made peace and now have everything in the shop priced identically the same. The street seems busy enough to sustain both of them but not a third.