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I don't know about 'unfriendly' but these appear to be the numbers:

"The French consulate in London estimates between 300,000 and 400,000 French citizens live in the British capital" which compares to city populations as follows:

    Paris - 2.3m
    Marseille - 859,000
    Lyon - 488,000
    Toulouse - 447,000
    Nice - 344,000

whereas "20,500 of the 135,000 expat Brits in the country live in or close to Paris".

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Maybe it's because Brits have much more trouble to learn French than French have to learn English.

Those numbers don't prove anything except that London is more appealing or open to the French than Paris to the Brits. Doesn't mean that France most skillful workers and entrepreneurs are persecuted and they feel the urge to flee their country. There are many things that could explain this disparity.

The 2011 Census showed that there were 66,654 Londoners born in France. The numbers from the consulate were completely made up.

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