Eh, KFC sucks here too. It’s probably better than in North America, but that isn’t really saying much.

Lord DauT > all those other dweebs

Because everything takes at least that long in France.

100%. Down and Out in Paris and London is definitely in my top five books of all time.

Skinny (but not super skinny, rather 511 Levi’s) jeans are the superior cut of jeans. My wife convinced me to buy a pair of baggy skater jeans and they’re fine for around the house but I just can’t stand the way they make my legs look lost in them, and I’m not exactly a small guy.

I would say B2, but it really depends, because fluency is not linear. My tested level (as in, I have a DELF certificate) is B2 in French, but because I use the language every day and am fully immersed, my actual level is easily C1, and I can read advanced texts without much trouble, only occasionally needing to refer to a dictionary for vocab I’m not familiar with. However, I still do not find the grammar intuitive at times; it just feels foreign even though I know how it works. In comparison, I’ve been studying German, and although the grammar is much more complex, and my level is nowhere near my level in French, the grammar “feels” right. Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s because it’s in the same language family as my mother tongue, I don’t know.

All this to say that, yeah, it depends.

Maudit anglais !

That’s a good question, but I don’t know the answer, as my experience is strictly from working in the trades here. One thing to note is that the mayor’s office has a huge say in all that, and as someone mentioned above, there are often regulations on things like roof colour, so that houses in a given neighborhood all have matching roof tiles. I have friends that built a house nearby that the mayor hated because it wasn’t conformist enough for his tastes (they had incorporated lots of wood, resultant in a house with a more North American-style trim), but he’s totally fine with bland-ass white squares with red roofs, lol.

Actually it’s more about building the houses as cheap as possible, because although French houses are generally much sturdier and better insulated than North American homes, building codes are not really well controlled here. They don’t even do plumbing and electrical inspections in new builds.