Judith-aka-Judith

Can't make the  link work, Lori, but Carcassonne, Prefecture, short of money??? Expensive Tax Fonc .. I do keep saying it ..

Indeed, I had forgotten, but then, I have never been to the Mirepoix market, and only visited the town once, so far, whereas I have been many times to Duras ..

Monday market in Duras (47) too.  They are not alone!

At last, back on computer after 24 hours away .. not fun - medical again - and can reply. Lori, NormanH is quite right, lots of places don't look to far away on the  map, until you try it, hills, bends, narrow roads, vignerons .. drivers who can't go up hills, or round bends .. only seeing it can show it ...

Remote area, Aude is a poorer dept .. as I said before.  Lori, some of the places you mention are seriously remote and dreary in winter ... no bus service .. and few commerces ... just saying .. the house you are living in is not everything ..

Mint, I am feeling very relieved for you .. you deserve a night off .. well done for your persistence .. I'm have fallen by the wayside long before you !

Beziers here too .. heard on another forum that to cope with the influx of WARP cards, Beziers are taking applications from the top and the bottom, ie early and late applications .. so if you were in the middle .. I applied for ours the first week it was possible in October.  First RDV offered was in Feb, had to change due to medical appt, next appt was mid March, cards arrived about 3 weeks later .. Easter got in the way.  Simple change over of 10 yr permanent cards.

It's either 7UD or 7 UF, UF is for general organisations, I think (memory), health might go in UD, but without looking at the form again can't remember which is which.  Which reminds me I donated to one this year and forgot  it .. but it wasn't very much so I'm not worried about that, and certainly not going back to correct it again just for that !!

Mint, I dontl supose it's worth unticking the form for 3916, and then starting again??  Likewise 8TT (cannot now remember which that is). Funny how computers do this sometimes. 

[quote user="nomoss"]The Caunes house is here 43°19'47.29" N   2°31'52.55" E At least it shouldn't get flooded [:)] The TF for our house, not too far from here, but in a small town with a lot more ameneties, is €1825 p.a. - for 275 m2 single storey house with 800 m2 garden . [/quote] Nomoss, you probably know that area better than I do, you live on that side of town from what you say, and no, Caune shouldn't flood, but remember Villemoustier etc a couple of years ago .. and all that valley .. can never say never. 

[quote user="Lori"]Yes Mint, I would do just as you have done to sell a house.  And yes Judith, we WILL be visiting these areas ourselves as soon as we can.  We are just seeing SO SO SO many lovely homes that fall into our budget and in, what appear to be, gorgeous settings. The part about the location for the prefecture and sous-prefecture is also very helpful and always important. What about Limoux? https://www.audeimmobilier.com/vente/11-aude/1-limoux/46460-villa-avec-piscine-sur-une-hauteur-de-limoux-batie-sur-6316-m/916-villa Or Couiza (a bit remote I guess, but what a nice setting). https://www.audeimmobilier.com/vente/11-aude/7-couiza/46485-belle-villa-a-5-minutes-d-esperaza/974-villa Does the weather vary considerably in these areas? [/quote] Yes, the weather varies considerably. Especially in the hills which Limoux and Quillan are approaching .. get in touch when you know when you are coming over .. and it will be easier to anwer questions that way (and we must meet up!).  PM if easier ..

[quote user="NormanH"]That does seem an enormous amount in a village but Judith will have a better idea of TF in that area [/quote] Just seen this post and Lori's above .. OK.  I know Caunes Minervois, where it seems that house is.  Good sized village, maybe bigger than ours, which is also a good size, but in the Aude (we are Herault), but only about 30 mins drive away and probably a little closer to Carca than we are.  It is a popular village, lots going for it, a centre for the area, an important abbey / church, I've been but only as a tourist.  Plenty of eateries etc etc.  It's a big house, modern (I don't know how close to the village centre, it is a sort of ribbon village on an alternative way to Carca for us), no pool, but space for one .. 5 beds.  But it is in the Aude .. a poor dept as I have said.  The taxe fonc is more than double ours, it seems, and we do have a pool.  But it should perhaps be best to compare with others in the locality, not mine in the next department (if only just!).

Lori, As Mint says, there is nothing to beat being there and seeing .. it is very easy to lie with photos, even unintentionally, as with statistics!. You mention Quillan and St Chinian, in the same sentence.  Not comparable, different parts of the Languedoc, one certainly remoter than the other.  Carcassonne the nearest for good facilities for Quillan (distance, I don't know).  It is hte prefecture town for tghe Aude, which may impact your decision.  ON the whole Aude is a poorer deaprtment than Hérault, where St Chinian is based.  St C is very popular, a reasonable sized town, I know it a little, it's about 30 km for us .. used to attend a monthly meeting there .. but is probably about 20 km from Beziers, reasonable road, which NormanH can tell you more about than I can, but has all the facilities you could want.  Including a sous-prefecture which does its best .. if not always. Quillan is nearer real mountains, St C, close to the next level down. Depends always on what you want.

Indeed, Mint, though I don't wear much perfume, and other people's wafting past my nose often makes me sneeze. I may not be very fashionable these days, going more for elasticated waists and comfort (and no need to remove for scans!), but I go for colour .. Friday I was in bright pink, flowery and loose pants with a matching T-shirt, and when I say pink it was not a pale pink .. but magenta like though more red than blue .. the nurse said "all in rose"!   "When I am old I will wear purple ..."!!  Only mine is any bright colour .. That's cheering enough I think!

[quote user="BritinBretagne"]France is on target. Even someone with your superior intelligence and insight will have to wait until it’s all over to see which country got it right. Life in France seems to have been reasonably good to me.[/quote] Until you look at the shambles on roll out in the early part of the year .. and how many people could not get rdv's locally for jabs even when they were in the age group being vaccinated. OH being a case in point.  In the first age group to be vaccinated after the care homes, he finally got his first jab late last month .. and is not due his second until mid June.   And he is not alone either on this forum, or in the wider world.  I don't call that "reasonably" good.

I've started wearing some of my better T-shirts for my zooms, with various forms of pants, though I have worn a denim skirt when the weather improved .. but the makeup just gets wiped off as I sweat, so why bother.  I'll start wearing my jewellery more when I get to go out more .. no point for hospitals and shopping which is all I've been to this last year!

Ken, surely you mean ONLY 20 million vaccinated?

Sue,Is it not on your impots online?  I found I had one from 2016, but it does say you can refer back to the online site for the info.

Lori, Prices around here, St Chinian and where we are, and there is plenty of choice, will be much lower than Vaucluse .. I don't keep an eye on prices so I don't know if they are correct, but do ask about specific locations if you need to.  NormaH is local, and so am I, also NoMoss? and maybe one or two others, as well.

I gave up with make up when I was working in a very dirty enviroment .. putting once wet books back onto shelves .. and then I stopped working and only bothered with a little eyemake up on occasion with a lipstick, which I lick off sooner rather than later.  Once I got my "freckled" tan in France, I have up completely, occasional lipstick (again licked off soonest) on occasion. Jewellery, since lockdown, I haven't bothered.  A watch on occasion.  Rings, none,  'cos I cannot get my wedding ring and engagement rings on the correct hand (can on the other) in spite of having had them made bigger three times already (arthritis).  Now given that up as tant pis.  More important things to worry about. If I were you Mint, I'd not bother with make-up .. .. a bit of fresh air (and yes, dry skin too here now), keep your skin moist, and your own refreshed skin will appear very soon.

Pomme, that help form is remarkable helpful (sorry!), just says which place to put everything, all you need .. shame I'd already done mine (correctly I believe!) but will use this to check!! And yes, for salaried French workers I can understand that it is very much easier, but it seems to have so many more fields in this year, most of which are totally unrelated to most peole's needs.  Each year they seem to alter something, thinking they are improving it and it just makes it worse.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it is one of our mottos here; the French tax people, even if they have made many strides forward in recent years, still haven't learnt that maxim.

As I understand it, tourists staying in accomodation other than with family do not have to fill these forms out, but as there are so many discussions on this at present, I have no idea which one of the many statements is correct.  I understand that even the British Embassy is unclear on this point at present. It will not doubt be clarified once the furore makes the authorities clarify what is intended.

Since almost all visits to family will also be for tourism, and tourists can come without this palaver, seems to be sledgehammer to crack nut syndrome.  More honoured in the breach, as NormanH says, most probably.

I don't know what you mean by simplified .. 2042 seemed even more complcated than ever to me!

I've no idea. Gave up with make-up long before I came to France ... agree, though, that after cataracts I saw things on my face I'd never seen before .... but didn't bother ... too much!!