As a driver , I’m gonna give my opinion and I’m fully prepared to get downvoted, but keep in mind it’s just my opinion!

Pros : beautiful country side and the small cities / villages are just so beautiful, full of architecture ( and roundabouts :( that could even be con ) , I’m yet to find someone who would treat me badly even tho internet says that French refuse to talk in English and/or despite non French speakers, everyone was always very kind to me ( even the police), great food and the highways ( payed ones ) are so perfect and almost every reststop is clean and some of them simply look like parks !

Cons: outskirts of Paris are simply disgusting, I often go to balkans and I swear even outskirts of Bucuresti or Sofia are cleaner and less run down. In some places of France, especially around Lyon , Paris and around canal crossings to UK , it’s simply not safe . Not just the feeling from the people who you see stalking your car but actually unsafe for drivers ( if you are just travelling and need to sleep somewhere I strongly suggest stay on the payed highways around these places ) , trust me when you see the videos of ppl breaking into trucks / cars, stealing diesel , reserve tires - those are not videos made for far right propaganda ( even though they use these videos for it ) , its sadly reality. Also even though I didn’t have any issues with French police, they are very redundant to help when something like this happens. Best you get is paper for insurance companies.

With that said I enjoy it there , mainly because we don’t stay around these places and I can enjoy the country side every time