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Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 9:35 am Post subject: France is the best place in the world to live!

[so long as you don't mind a bit of snow etc.]

France is the best place in the world to live!
(Newsletter: UK customers - Hot off the press!)

In a recent survey by International Living, France has been voted the best place to live for the second year running. Out of 193 countries France topped the list in terms of, among others, cost of living, culture and leisure, environment, health and climate.

However, it's not just facts and figures that add up when people decide to move to France; France has so much to offer in terms of lifestyle, property and diversity of landscape. As illustrated in our recent market report: "Now, anyone can move to France in the certainty that they are investing in a way of life as well as a property."

Click here to see the full results of the survey on the International Living website.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 9:43 am Post subject:
Both my older brothers and their families would agree...

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 9:47 am Post subject: Re: France is the best place in the world to live!

Simon wrote:

...France topped the list in terms of, among others, cost of living,

...'cause the Euro's cheep at the moment

Simon wrote:

culture

...mouldy cheese is not substitute for manners!

Simon wrote:

and leisure,

...striking is not a leasure activity to the rest of the world.

Simon wrote:

environment,

...huge areas of land set aside for mono-culture.

Simon wrote:

health

...well, a country of hyper-condriacts would need a good health service. Anyone fancy an enama?

Simon wrote:

and climate.

...dry roasted in the summer and snowed in in the winter.

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 9:56 am Post subject:
So when you thinking of coming over NL?

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 10:01 am Post subject:

Simon wrote:

So when you thinking of coming over NL?

No idea. To be honest, I have to blame blantent dislike of the French on the media, and a highly carp ending to a holiday in Paris (nothing 'gay' about the place if you ask me) 14 years ago. 11 years ago I discovered Italy (yep, 'twas me with nothing but a good pair of boots and a compass!) and haven't had the slightest inclination to go back. IMHO, Italy beats France for food, wine, culture and climate.

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 11:12 am Post subject: Re: France is the best place in the world to live!

Simon wrote:

France is the best place in the world to live!

As long as you don't marry an alcoholic abusive Frenchman and then leave him to come back to England with your daughter !!!!! - the consequences of which a friend of mine is currently going through

Diary of being obliged to fight to keep your own child

Sorry to put a bit of a downer on the thread but its important people realise that there are downsides to living in a foreign country

Last edited by joanne on Wed Jan 31, 07 12:02 pm; edited 1 time in total

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 11:21 am Post subject:

France CAN be a great place to live. But, and it's a big but, the economy is down the toilet and trying to find a job in some parts of the country can be an exercise in despair. And then wages are very very low so whilst stuff can be cheaper I'm not sure how it all stacks up in the end compared to the UK.

Many people go there in some stupid hope that somehow it'll be easier than the UK. It's probably harder as you've got to get to grips with differences in language, culture, etc. I love France but I'm having to work in the UK because I can't find a job there - which saddens me greatly.

tigger

Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 725
Location: Bologna (Italy)

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 11:38 am Post subject:

[quote="Northern_Lad"]

Simon wrote:

IMHO, Italy beats France for food, wine, culture and climate.

you coming here instead then?

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 11:44 am Post subject:

Yep, we've been here over three years and still no offer of work. There is (at last) a faint glimmer of hope on the horizon come April.

We love it here, despite the cold and we are fortunate that we are in a situation where we can live on a bare minimum of expenditure by raising livestock and growing most things. We do still have expenditure however, and quite a bit since our two eldest started school last September. I'm hinging alot on April.

The food is good (but they can't comprehend vegetarianism which is what sadens me alot). The culture is wierd but interesting. The climate is extreme (at least where we are) and as for the economy we don't get involved with that much. We prefer to swap man-hours for man-hours where we can, amongst other bartering.

I too prefer Italy with regards to food, people and climate.

I didn't write the review at the head of this thread - it was quoted from a newsletter. Sorry, should've made that clear. I don't rate France any better than England except that it is more spread out and has given us a chance to do what we have wanted to do for a long time. I also love the challenge of learning a new language. France would not be top of my list, I think Italy would but not having lived there (yet) it is impossible to say.

I just though some folk might be interested in the survey.

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 11:45 am Post subject:

[quote="tigger"]

Northern_Lad wrote:

Simon wrote:

IMHO, Italy beats France for food, wine, culture and climate.

you coming here instead then?

Is that an INVITE???

Howdya' manage to jumble your post up into something that is clairvoyant of that which I was typing in parallel at the time???

I didn't write that or at least not until after you had

tigger

Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 725
Location: Bologna (Italy)

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 9:01 pm Post subject:

Web telepathy

comes included in the broadband package!

I am excellent at jumbling anything to do with computers. I don't even have to try, it's a natural talent

All invites on hold at the moment as we're trying to sell the house.
an hour ago someone knocked at the door saying could he show his dad and friend around! We'd just finished dinner and the remains were on the table. my littlest was getting ready for bed, 12 yr old daughter was just getting out of the shower, 17 year old getting ready for a bath, I was on the phone to a colleague and OH was on the settee ill in pain as he's not well at all and I'd just given him an injection!

pooh

Joined: 01 Jan 2007
Posts: 30

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 07 11:51 am Post subject:
Are you sure that was an injection, Tiggs?? I've heard how you lot administer your medicines

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 07 11:52 am Post subject:

pooh wrote:

Are you sure that was an injection, Tiggs??

I've heard how you lot administer your medicines

Nah, you're thinking of the frogs: emema lovers of the world!

Tay

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

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 07 12:10 pm Post subject:
I haven't heard that before. Suppositories, apparently were the done thing, but I didn't know that enemas were de rigeur here.

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 07 12:14 pm Post subject:

Tay wrote:

I haven't heard that before. Suppositories, apparently were the done thing, but I didn't know that enemas were de rigeur here.

Sorry, you got it right. Both involve putting things in places where stuff's supposed to come out though.

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