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Originally Posted by Minato ku
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I lived in Reunion island, much of the life is almost the same that in mainland France.
Listen Reunion island population has always been part of France (before the island was empty).
They have same education, the same laws, the same institution, the same political organisation, they read and watch the same things that in mainland France.
The same cannot be said for Quebec.
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A lot of people just find it difficult to imagine Reunion being similar to parts of Metropolitan Mainland France because of Reunion’s geographic location in the Southwest Indian Ocean near Madagascar, Mauritius, and Southeast Africa.
That is very rare to encounter someone that lived in Reunion and that sounds fascinating if you did live there! How was your experience with Reunion? Do you find that island to have some good qualities about it, and is Reunion a worthwhile inviting place for international tourists to visit?
We do have to keep in mind the variation in the 22 regions of Metropolitan mainland France: Provence Cote d’ Azur, Rhone-Alpes, Ile-de-France, Nord-Pas de Calais, Languedoc-Roussillion, Midi-Pyrenees, Lorraine, Alsace, Aquitaine, Corsica, Franche-Comte, Champagne-Ardenne, Burgandy, Auvergne, Normandy, Picardy, Poitou-Charantes etc.
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Reunion is certainly more similar to Corsica Island of Southeast France than Quebec, so I don’t have doubts for that. Maybe that is also true for rural parts of mainland Southeast/South/Southwest France.
However, for most of the other parts of France, especially in the more urban areas, it just seems Quebec is more similar to that than Reunion is.
Does Reunion have some of the urban culture, vibrancy, and amenities of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Lille, Toulouse, Grenoble, Cannes, Strasbourg, Bayonne etc.? Montreal in Quebec appears to come closer to that than Reunion.
France has a total of 27 official regions, 5 of them being overseas: Reunion, Mayotte, Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana.
I wonder why New Caledonia, and French Polynesia appear to have a different status from those 5 overseas regions? Do they have a bit more independence/autonomy than those overseas regions?