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Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Sat May 26, 07 3:31 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

Everyone I know who has gone to France start off by telling you "It's wonderful here..." and then procede to list all the bad points of living in France, finishing up by saying "...so you see how wonderful it is?"

Err...

Forgive me if I'm happy where I am

If you have ever read "Sixty million Frenchmen can't be wrong" Rob then you will realise how uncanny your statement here is. That is the French summed up and so I suppose that is how your friends that have moved to France sum the place up and report back.

If youz happy where you are then good for you. I am happy here too at present.

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Sat May 26, 07 4:48 pm Post subject:

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Same with 'incomers' - we moved to Spain in a rural area and accept that life in the country comes with all that farming and smallholding has to offer - sometimes mud on road, manure, muck spreading, animals - what really irritates are those who come and buy holiday homes and complain about everything - if you want it sanitised - stick with your lot and stop moaning.....

Ditto for rural England. I'm afraid I got quite heated at a dinner party last week. A new couple have moved up from Surrey and I listened to her complaining about the neighbours cockerel, no Waitrose, not being able to move a few yards in the market without having to "negociate around people chatting away as though they have all the time in the world". I bit my tongue for a long time and eventually suggested, very politely, that she might not be suited to rural life!

I like France,
I love Northern Spain,
I ADORE South Shropshire.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat May 26, 07 7:42 pm Post subject:
Do they have Highland cattle in France?

Tay

Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 2811
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Posted: Sat May 26, 07 7:47 pm Post subject:
None around here; just Limousin and Charolais with the occasional Friesian. However, I will admit that I am not an expert cowspotter...

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35086
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat May 26, 07 8:13 pm Post subject:

Tay wrote:

None around here; just Limousin and Charolais with the occasional Friesian. However, I will admit that I am not an expert cowspotter...

I wonder if you are anywhere near the "lost camp site". Many years ago Sean & I stayed for a few days at a campsite in the middle of France. We really liked it, but have no recollection of where it was or the name of the nearby town. We were the only people on it except for one old French couple in a caravan and lots of glow worms. And lots of field mice. There was an area nearby with lots of little drainage canals called green Venice or something similar. Ring any bells?

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Sun May 27, 07 2:32 am Post subject:
https://www.la-venise-verte.com/english.htm

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35086
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu May 31, 07 8:00 pm Post subject:

Simon wrote:

https://www.la-venise-verte.com/english.htm

Thanks Simon - I'll scrutinize that with a map later.

NannyP

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 07 9:45 pm Post subject:
Well I'm pleased I came. It meant I could give up work at 51 and become a kept woman, which I quite like now I've got all that feminist stuff out of my system. It's still less than a year, so I mustn't count my chickens, but both Mark and I are happy with our own company, and enjoy playing rather than working. Tay, I love your Avi.......just a little too gory to pinch it though

Tay

Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 2811
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 07 10:16 pm Post subject:
Hi Kathy, great to see you on here. Perhaps I should change my TF avatar to this one? Might shake things up a little...

NannyP

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 07 10:20 pm Post subject:
Oh yes, I would.....I'll stand back and hide behind the sofa I've just emailed you, hope all is well?

Tay

Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 2811
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 07 10:30 pm Post subject:
Surviving so far... Life is somewhat turbulent at the moment. Just got your email - shall reply shortly.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46374
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 07 6:44 pm Post subject:

moules and frites wrote:

I cannot wait until my French property is finished and we can sell up and move over . I went working on my property last week and it is really hard to come back to the UK. By the way Britain came 37th in the same poll which says it all .

Properties with acres of land from �25K , low crime, better weather, superb schooling and health services , better (and cheaper) standard of living , easy to get back to UK for other family etc .

I could buy a farmhouse with five acres of land in Brittany or a beachhut at Bournemouth for the same money ....

Property tax in Brittany �140 per year ... ( includes tv license)
Council tax in Poole Dorset �2000 per year ...

Burglar gets caught in Poole, takes 200 other offences into consideration and gets community service.
Burglar gets caught in France minimum sentence two years.

I cannot think of one thing that Brittain is better than France for/at ..............I was going to suggest cricket .......LOL

I am English , my wife is Hungarian and I have family living in Germany but sorry France is best ...........

Ooh La La !

umm we mentioned that sort of thing sunday am
ummmmmmm

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 07 7:08 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

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ummmmmmm

That sounds as though Greece might have moved down to second place...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46374
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 07 7:46 pm Post subject:
desert is a harsh environment

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 07 4:53 pm Post subject:
I'm glad I moved here too. Gave up the stressful life in the UK at the ripe old age of 43 . Will have to find a few things to bring in pennies to keep the wolf from the door, but really enjoying the new lifestyle. Just a shame that "smallholder" isn't a concept understood by the French - you either grow just enough for yourself, or you're a farmer, and have to pay the "cotistations" to match

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