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  1. Don't know if this link might be helpful, it sets out how to get an official address if you don't own or rent property. I looked into all this when I was thinking of fulltiming in my motorhome. A campsite is OK or as I said, you can attach to a commune where you have a connection. It's all here: http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/F13183.xhtml
  2. I don't think you could register on AE without a permanent address. For starters you wouldn't be able to do it online, you wouldn't be able to fill the form in. And to some extent the scheme is regionally based - you are dealt with by your 'local' URSSAF, etc. And I suspect the SIREN/SIRET number would need to be attributed to an address, I wouldn't have thought a business could be registered without a business address in any country - wouldn't fly-by-nights have a good time! just vanish into thin air when the bills came in. FYI there is a scheme whereby travellers can be 'attached' to a commune in order to register a car for example, but I doubt it would do for AE. Cooperlola's suggestion sounds best.
  3. Self-employed and struggling. I get regular updates from my lovely elderly neighbour about her daughter who is about the same age as me, has similar skills and experience, was born here and lived in the town all her life, and has been out of work for nearly 2 years now. Daughter is single, used to have a good job and her own flat but has recently had to come back to live with mum. It's not just Brits who come away from the pole d'emploi empty-handed, if there are no jobs what can they do. Daughter gets depressed sometimes, mum is worried sick, yes I'd love a nice steady job for myself but if one ever comes up I hope she gets it.
  4. If a GPS gives warnings of speed cameras that is illegal in France and they can be confiscated.
  5. In the UK there are too many people who make their living out of new start businesses. Not only all the business advisors and enterprise agencies who compete with each other to help new entrepreneurs tap into the grants that are available, but also all the equipment and service providers who are approved suppliers under the grants schemes. It is in all these people's interest to get as many businesses starting up as possible, and once everyone has got their share of the start-up funding most of them don't care whether the business carries on or not. Funding is given to a lot of start ups that are obviously not sustainable. Sorry if this is off topic but I was picking up on the point that in France setting up a business is seen as more of a commitment to succeeding than in the UK.
  6. There is a Slack Bottom near Hebden Bridge in W. Yorks
  7. I have friends who live in PRAT, in Brittany. A place that makes me smile - now - is the beach where possibly due to a combination of sun, wine and and excess of joie de vivre, I slipped on the rocks and ripped the skin off my elbow down to the bone, scarred for life I am, and it happened at Coudeville-plage (geddit?? = Elbowtown!!!)
  8. Thanks for coming back with that, Pickles. At the end of the day it is common sense but if challenged by The Authorities it is probably better to quote from Your Europe than Sunday Driver (though SD probably knows more answers)
  9. thanks Theiere, I wasn't sure whether you could have 2 - you have answered my question that I was going to ask them. One for the car, one for the motorhome then.
  10. Chessie - anyone not resident in the UK can drive their o/seas-reg vehicle there. But UK residents, whilst in the UK, can only drive UK-reg cars. Daft, innit?
  11. Thanx Sunday Driver & An0ther you have re-convinced me of what I always used to believe until someone else convinced me otherwise, however blinkers now removed (praps I'll drive better without them too), agree that youreurope is a load of balons and I am happy again xx
  12. LibertT told me I could use their doofer in any vehicle in fact they will supply a second holder foc. However on the application you specify a category of vehicle e.g. car or van, and a section of route to get discounts on. So if you have specified private car, you can use it in a motorhome but you won't get the discount.
  13. [quote user="AnOther"]I think a few pairs of knickers are getting into an unnecessary twist with this. Yes, if you are French resident then you must register your vehicle here but nowhere can I find where it says that if not you cannot therefore I don't think you can automatically extrapolate from it that as non resident holiday home owner you are prohibited from doing likewise. [/quote] I'm going along with SD et al because it suits me - but so why does http://ec.europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/registration/formalities/index_en.htm say (in a red box with a yellow exclamation mark next to it) "You can only register a car in the country where you normally live or have permanent residence." You cannot register your car in a country where you have a secondary residence or holiday house" because to me that seems to be saying exactly what AnOther says that noone is saying (if you see what mean)
  14. Hi Pickles, well actually it was the Your Europe site that eventually convinced me. I would very much like it to be possible for me to have car in France but the europa site says "You can only register a car in the country where you normally live or have permanent residence. You cannot register your car in a country where you have a secondary residence or holiday house" so that seemed pretty definite to me. I have also seen this said on French forums when Belgians want to register a car in France, you have probably found the same references, but again no cast iron source. To be honest I couldn't quite figure out how 'authoritative' the Your Europe site is. However it also says on the Carte Grise http://www.carte-grise.org/faq.htm#q30 site that foreigners only need to register their cars once they have declared themselves resident - but as far as I can make out it doesn't specifically say that they can't do it sooner if they want. It also says that you can't register a car at a maison secondaire but the reasons given for this seem to be aimed at French with a maison princ and a maison sec. Would be very interested to know what the response to your query will be.
  15. Pickles, that's what I always thought until quite recently. But in fact it is correct that under EU law you can only register a car in the country where you are a permanent resident. I suppose they are expecting your car to go with you wherever you go, so if you and your car are in a country for more than 6 months that would normally make it your country of residence. Would that life were that simple. What I still haven't worked out is exactly what they mean by resident - does that mean 'ordinarily resident' as HMRC says, or fiscally resident, or what? I work and pay taxes in France (as a non-resident), I work and pay taxes and NI in the UK, could I in theory register a car in each country?
  16. Tha wants a 'Barnsley kiss' for that, Leo EuroTrash (born in Barnsley)
  17. [quote user="Théière"][quote user="AnOther"]Drawing significant cash over the counter in case of unexpected need or emergency may prove difficult too. Definitely an option of last resort. [/quote] Impossible more like, at CA money only moves via the machines and is subject to daily limits. [/quote] To be more precise - at CA-Normandie you can withdraw as much cash over the counter as you wish but only at specified times throughout the week, and the amount you can withdraw at the machine has a WEEKLY limit not a daily limit. Very useful thread this, I have downloaded the forms and am going to get me a Doofer, thanks all.
  18. Oh right, thank you very much Mr CdL. It still looks all garbagey in my browser. http://www.completefrance.com/cs/images/emotions/blink.gif I use Chrome.
  19. Oops, first post, don't seem to have quite got the hang of this quoting lark!
  20. [quote user="Loire"]Hi I shall soon be moving to France from the uk. My internet supplier in the uk is BTopenworld. Sorry to be dull, but presumably when I stop my BT openworld internet I shall no longer have access to the emails that I had with my BTopenworld email address. I have many emails that I want to save, and should have to do so as a bulk operation as there are too many to copy individually. Can anyone tell me please, in very simple terms, how I save emails to my computer or a disk or stick or external hard drive so that I can access them once my BT email account has been closed? Very grateful for any info received. Kind regards Loire[/quote] alternativvely if you want to store them online rather than on a computer you could open a hotmail account and set it to pick up your emails from your old account (not too hard, look under 'options' and take it from there), It will put a copy of everything that is currently in your old BT inbox into your hotmail inbox. Tho it might take a while if there are a lot ...
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