Originally Posted by Ansett

Hi everyone

Just found this site today, we are coming to France in April for 3 weeks to see where we want to live for a year. My husband would like to be around Nantes, if anyone has any information on the region it would be greatly appreciated.

We have been to France a couple of times and really like the country, we have been travelling for almost 5 years, 2 years in BC Canada, 5 months in Scotland, and 2 years in Bulgaria with time spent in a lot of other European countries.

We are travelling with our 2 dogs which we flew out from Australia with us nearly 5 years ago. They have pet passports, all their jabs, rabies etc and are 11 and 12 years old. Looking for a pet friendly place to rent for 12 months. Do you think we will have a problem renting someplace with dogs?

I have done a fair bit of research, but like all things we really have to come over for a few weeks to have a look at the area.

Thanks for any information

Cheers

Ansett

Originally Posted by Ansett

Hi cjm,

Thanks for the welcome and the information, good idea making a list except I don't know that region of France at all. We have spent time mostly in the north east, the middle and down south in Sarlat.

Cheers


Ansett

Originally Posted by GJHem

Hi there one and all.

After a few years of thinking will we, won't we, we've taken the plunge and bought a place just outside Saint-Mathieu in the Haute-Vienne. Within 2 hours of completion (great fun in the notaires as we bought from two brothers who fell out years ago and no longer speak to each other) we had a builder (comes on recommendation) in and we're just waiting for costings on the work needed.

We've spent a lot of time in the area as we know quite a few people just the other side of Oradour-Sur-Vayres.

As we're still working in the UK, the plan is to get it to get the building work done and then complete the rest ourselves. We'll probably spend Mar - Oct in France before coming back to the UK for the winter........however it could be that we stay permanently, who knows what will happen in the future.

Anyhow, enough of my ramblings this morning and have just joined to say hello.

Originally Posted by panner

Hi Everyone
We have had a property here in the Loire Area for 10 years and finally made the permanent move here in 2009 following early retirement.
We are in rural parts just outside a small village (400 pop) doing the 'good life' thing and really enjoying the slower pace of life.
Language is the only problem we have although have managed to master most of the administration i.e. Health, Tax etc. French language learning is definitely a hard slog
Anyway got to bring some more logs in, bye for now

Geoff

Originally Posted by nerdherd

Bonjour tout le monde,

Just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I am French and currently live in the UK and have done for over 15 years. My main British Expats stomping ground is actually the Canada forum as my English husband and I will be (hopefully) emigrating there by the end of this year.

I thought I'd have also a look at this forum, who knows, I may be able to help here and there with anything French related, with the added bonus that I will also understand the British perspective, what with having been an honorary Brit since 1995

I am from the Jura/Ain border, so not somewhere that is a big Brit magnet (the winters can be very harsh), but I have also lived in Lyon and Chambéry, and know some other areas of France reasonably well. All my family is still in France...

Anyway, that's me in a nutshell!

Originally Posted by nerdherd

Baggies? I genuinely have no idea what you are talking about! Am guessing football? Or perhaps cricket? Will google that later.

Was just using Albion in the Shakespearian way :-)

Originally Posted by Herman

Hello!
We moved to Paris a year ago. We agreed some time ago that one day we want to live in France as a few years ago we bought a ski apt in the Alps and we akways loved the country. I actually took a job with a large French company so that I could work on our grand plan of eventually securing a head office posting to France on expat terms (we previously had an expat posting to Sydney and have experienced the benefits!). After 2 years with the company I achieved that goal and we are now in France officially for 3 years. It looks like we could stay as one of the Directors of another business unit approached me last week as he wants an international team and he asked me to call him if we decide we want to stay in France. We are a yound family with a 21 month old daughter and our second, a boy, will be born in our local French hospital in May. We are still not completely decided whether we will ultimately stay in France, depends on the terms of any job I am offered and what the alternative might be in the UK. However, we do love France as much as ever, its diversity and culture, the attitudes to young children, the people we have met and the obsession with food and wine.

Originally Posted by Jill Rees

Hello!

I moved to Paris in September last year and have finally managed to find an appartment and some work teaching. Whatson for English people in Paris?

Jill