I'm very aware of the gap with the "South" way of life as i grew up and still live in the most crazy ( and by the way richest , check it if you like) region of West Europe. There is no counterpart of the Paris région in Germany, probably the Great London region but I'm not sure) . But i also know that a few dozen kilomètres far we enter another France, That's the tourism magic of France and ifs various régions. Going South is another great travel : civilization , people humans values and time itself changes. The more you go South the more you earn times in the same 24h a day and the more you have and need human interactions. It's just another world, the old world human being oriented still resisting to the destroying modernity and capitalism.( another story, more or less related to the Disney sides of for instance Netherlands ) . Of course Netflix and mcdonald are every where in France, I'm not that naïve. I think i'll escape to creta one day, even Greece or Portugal are no more satisfying my "exotic" but realistics needs.