I'd move tomorrow if I could. A stone cottage in a nice sleepy town in the Pyrenees, if you're offering.
My experience for 90% of France and northern Spain/Catalonia was just magic.
The French Riviera had lots of crap, impatient drivers. In Italy the moped riders were suicidal.
I'm sure there are categories of dangerous driving on the continent that don't seem to be nearly as acceptable here in the UK - if you go to e.g. Tenerife you'll see that most cars have more than a few dents in the bodywork. When I ran out of daylight halfway up a mountain road there, I got a lift off an otherwise very nice guy who spent most of the time fiddling with his phone in a way that would not happen here.
Without wanting to generalise, I imagine that most on the continent believe it fine to drive after a cheeky cerveza or petit biere - 20 years ago, someone I used to know in the UK would consider themselves fine to drive the dark lanes of Devon after a couple of pints in a way that would be met with extreme disapproval nowadays.
That being said, the driving culture in the UK sucks, pure entitlement, and the attitude towards vulnerable road users absolutely stinks.