FRENCH PEOPLE RUDE?

I love france, and we would like to live there eventually, and unfortunatly people still think of the frech as rude, I do not, where else can you go where you are greeted with bonjour madame from a complete stranger? Certainly not in the uk, where you are lucky if you recieve a smile. The culture is great, people friendly but much more than that even the teenagers are polite and civilised.