Don’t Move to France ... until you’ve done your homework.

Move to France: comments from people who are “pro” a move to France:

To: info@dontmovetofrance.co.uk
Subject: Missing the point.
 

• Bonjour.
• I have read your comments about France the French and life in France.
• Although I accept your premise that people thinking about moving to France should do so with their eyes open, I cannot agree with your descriptions of France and what life is like here. They are just wrong.
• I am originally from Britain but settled here in SW.France 20 years ago. I have to say that all I have read on your strange site is indicative of an attitude of mind I was so glad to leave behind. You seem unable to grasp the point of moving to a culture which is so completely different from your own. Your attitudes are similar to the old British colonials in India and Africa. When things are done differently to your American/Anglicised cultural view of the world you regard it as negative.
• Growing up is like that. If you have had a life of diverse experience your attitudes in your twenties are not the same when you reach your fifties. Or on the contrary, if you have had a life doing pretty much the same thing in the same cultural environment you are unlikely to embrace difference whatever age you reach. I suspect you fit into the latter.
• You have entirely missed the point about France and as a consequence France is so much better off for you staying in Britain.
• France in my opinion is almost a perfect place to live. I have lived in many other countries around the globe so speak from experience. You dismiss so easily the institutions which hold the fabric of this society together. You do that because you fail to understand how things work and why they exist in the first place. You do it because you are so deeply entrenched in a culture which is different not better. In short you are sooooo English. This society is fairer and more equal than most other countries. Wealth is more equally distributed without the state dependency of the UK underclass. Education and healthcare is vastly superior to the UK. because government spending is always directed toward it. Public transport, sport, literature and the arts. The lists go on. Public pensions and care of the elderly continue to outstrip that of the UK. There is a sense of community in my small village, people care about each other and look out for each other. Folk do their best for the place in which they spend their lives. France has more geographical space, people do not live in run down council owned ghettos or in each others space. They contribute and expect nothing as a consequence. Income tax is lower in France, council tax is considerably lower in France. It is cheaper to buy a comfortable home in France. Food and wine is cheaper in France. Cars are cheaper in France. Petrol is cheaper in France and incomes are the same as UK.
• I feel very sorry for you continuing to suffer in your overpriced Britain, racked by crime, traffic pollution, poor healthcare, a rotten war mongering prime minister and an over bearing tax regime which will only get worse.
• Life is good in France and I for one will be staying here the rest of my days.

Name not published by request.

Now read my response by clicking here.