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When you get to know them, they make it sure you don't mistake them for anything else but Corsicans.
that's probably more true in the south. I have a good friend whose family lives in corsica, but he has a very french name, has my accent (he's from Vienne) and his family were pieds-noirs, so that's another story, still they are corsicans in a way.
As I said, mountains are a reason, but hardly the only reason. So there is no point in repeating that as if you are the smartest person in the room seeing the obvious thing nobody knows.
Switzerland is mostly mountainous too, but has a population density of 202, more than 5 times that of Corsica.
The micro country of Andorra is as mountainous as it can get, yet has a population density of 180, 4.5 times that of Corsica.
Vorarlberg, Austria is almost entirely mountainous, but still has a density of 150sq km, compared with 38 for Corsica.
Are those people all eating mountains?
My point was not that mountainous countries are mutually exclusive to wealth, but that Corsica does not have a strong economy, irrespective of topography, thus people leave Corsica for cities on the mainland with more opportunity. They need to eat.
The population of Corsica has increased on average by 1.11% per year since 2008, an increase twice the national rate.
As said above it is mainly the independent terrorism that has slowed down people to settle permanently. Since 5/10 years and the end of the FLNC the island becomes attractive again.
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lol, there's not many people there because people leave to go find jobs on the mainland. and also because it's apparently full of... crime? also see : creuse department, why no one huh? same reason... (forget the crime though)
lol, there's not many people there because people leave to go find jobs on the mainland. and also because it's apparently full of... crime? also see : creuse department, why no one huh? same reason... (forget the crime though)
Many of those are former very industrial regions without any large attractive metropolitan areas.
The northernmost area is also a declining industrial region but the city of Lille helps to mitigate the decline.
Without Lille, it would be as red as the other.
France like the United States has a rust belt and a sun belt.
Paris has a fast growing economy but a moderate population growth. The city is not view as attractive by most of the French population who prefers the metropolitan areas in the southwest (Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, Montpellier) and Lyon in the east.
Central France is empty and decling. It's been a while that it's the case.
I never heared of a high crime rate in Corsica and always felt very safe there, compared to mainland France (Paris, Nice, etc.) where trillions and trillions of pick-pockets, criminals and other filth is hanging around. Except the FLNC which is loosing importance I always experienced it as a quite peaceful place. The biggest problem is there are just no jobs - no manufacturing sector, no big service industry, only agriculture, public utilities and tourism (which only lasts in the summer months).
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