Bonnet,
That's a sweeping statement you've just made above about pensions. Could you please substantiate it as being factual, or was the omission of an 'imho' an oversight?
The problem being that these pages are no doubt read by many hundreds of folks who could be easily misled by unfactual information.

Quite. I'm not sure if Bonnet has an agenda or is just stirring the shit for the hell of it.

DMU, I have to disagree with your weather comment not being a major factor. For us it was. Fed up having year on year pathetic weather in the uk so we wanted somewhere with actual seasons i.e. snow and cold weather in the winter and sunshine and warmth in the summer. Add in beautiful autumns and lovely springs the weather was on our most wanted list.

Having recently move from Toronto back to Europe, I assume you have no idea what snow and cold weather actually means.

I assume you have no idea that I actually live in the Alps.

Where the average temperature in January, the coldest month of the year is -0.2C, in comparison with my last home near Toronto where the average temperatures are below zero in December, January, February (both -6C) and March.

Toronto is considered sub-tropical by Canadians living elsewhere (except on the west coast).

Yes but this is the French section...... We tend not to gauge our lives by the weather in Canada

Although Novo got used to the Canadian low temperatures, nevertheless his teeth would often chatter - even in the glass!
And I have it from a reliable source that he gave up smoking there because the flame on his lighter often froze......

The subject of French cheeses and wines often comes up on the Canada forum.

Fair's only fair.

And talking of fair; Fair Cop guv.

Well you know where the airport is

hi there,
i am french, but my husband and i are living in holland. we were looking to move to also TOULOUSE area last year, and get a house to turn into a gite.
i contacted GITE DE FRANCE, they organize conference for people who want to join their logo and explain how it works.

toulouse is a beautiful area, but let me tell you.
hot, hot hot..

so my advice look for a place outside in the country side, where you can get some breeze, every houses there, have a pool., but i still love it.

there is a lot to take into considerations when running your own business in france.

as far a banks are concerned, you need to bring in at a minimum 10 % of the purchase price with a full time job.

good luck and let me know if you need more information.
nathalie

Nathalie, if that is indeed your email address I would suggest you chnage your user name

Welcome to the forum!

Yep, what he said! Natalhie, please contact Site Admin asap to change your username, we do ask that you don't use an email address as your username (both under Site Rule 11, and when you sign up), which is for your own sake. BE is a public forum so it'll soon get snapped up by spambots and weirdos if you leave your email address on it!

I've removed your other posts for that reason, but as per the above, please contact Admin and change it, thx.

I've already advised Admin to do same since her first post.