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Hortense, expatriate in the United States: "Here, we restrict ourselves but we feel free"

2021-03-09T20:10:46.221Z


EXPATRIATES FACING COVID (4/6) - Freshly graduated, the 24-year-old feels “free” in New York, where contamination is still numerous, and deplores the “sadness” of the French.


We screwed up on the masks, the tests and the vaccines.

"On social networks as on TV sets, many French people grumble against the management of the crisis by the health authorities.

But is the grass really greener elsewhere?

Beyond the figures and rumors,

Le Figaro

went to meet several expatriates, relocated to the four corners of the world, whose daily lives oscillate between governmental authority and popular laxity.

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The fourth episode of this series is devoted to Hortense, a young 24-year-old graduate, who left for New York in 2019, in the Williamsburg district, to start her active digital life.

Hortense, young 24-year-old graduate, expatriate in New York.

Hortense

LE FIGARO.

- The Covid-19 epidemic has claimed the lives of more than 525,000 Americans, including 30,000 in New York City alone.

What are the restrictive measures in the Big Apple?

Hortense

- Where France is only constrained, with its repeated curfews and local confinements, New York is counting on

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Source: lefigaro

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