In these troubled times any talk of selling up and moving to France has reduced quite a lot. Apart from anything else it is now impossible to buy a studio flat in England for £50k, sell it a month later for £250k, and hope to live for ever on the profits in some quiet part [...]
You’ll be pleased to see we’ve reached the final instalment of our is anyone suitable to live in France series. Normal service will be resumed in a couple of days. . The last question was ‘How well do you know the place in France where you intend to live?’…and does it matter? It’s quite easy [...]
This is part four of the would you suit life as an expat in France series. Reading the previous entries won’t make you any better informed and might well make you bitter and resentful, but if you must, take a look at the ‘Expat requirements’ category. One question that was posed was, ‘Do you like [...]
OK we’re half way through this interminable series of responses to the survey at Would you enjoy living in France – not far to go now, and I’ll keep this one brief. I have nothing very helpful to say on this subject, since it depends entirely on your own personality, but I do know that [...]
In this next thrilling episode of our survey ‘are you suited to a life in France‘ I’ll share my thoughts about how much money you need, always a thorny issue but one that is hard to ignore. (You can see the original survey and other responses in the ‘Expat Requirements’ category). If you answered that [...]
(This post is the first in a series of responses to the questionnaire posted at Would you like living in France. See the ‘expat requirements’ category for all posts in the series.) The first question asked was ‘do you speak French?’. Ah, obviously the answer is, there is no point moving to France if you [...]
Since this blog receives many visitors from people searching for ‘living in France’ I assume there must be lots of readers who are contemplating it. So in a short series of posts over the next couple of weeks I will attempt to answer the question – would you make a good French expat? I’ll post [...]