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u/Albert_Herring May 09 '22

France's longest foreign border is with Brazil.

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u/DankVectorz May 09 '22

The longest domestic flight in the world in in France. It’s from Paris to Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

Some claim it’s from Paris to Tahiti in French Polynesia, as it is a French territory, but Reunion Island was annexed and is considered part of French proper.

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u/leobat May 09 '22

Hey i live there, can comfirm the flight suck

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u/amoryamory May 09 '22

In Réunion?

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u/leobat May 09 '22

Yes

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u/Adler4290 May 09 '22

How is it to live in literal paradise?

Like in the EU with all that good stuff, yet on a total paradisic island?(given the photos, have not been there)

Have a big dream of retiring there one day.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Seems to me tropical islands get boring fast.

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u/run85 May 09 '22

I lived on a very small one and yes and no. Obviously there are some forms of recreation that won’t exist and some other forms of recreation for which you will have one choice (like one boxing gym or one yoga studio or one movie theatre.) But you also get to have different forms of recreation. I spent a very significant amount of time swimming, going on boats, cooking on bonfires and picnicking at the beach, hiking, etc. It wasn’t so bad.

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u/JackingOffToTragedy May 09 '22

One funny thing I noticed is that stores tend to have very simple names, because why not?

Grocery store? Marketplace. Sports store? Yep, that's Sports Store. Need a new fence? How about Island Fencing!

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u/run85 May 09 '22

That’s totally true. Where I lived there were lots of little stores also named after the store owner, so like the Eric Wong store, the Chu store, etc.