EuroTr@sh

My point is, you seem to be using the argument that the fact that 50 of French peeps want to move, means that the property market will be busy busy busy when they do because all those thousands or millions of people will be buying and selling. But thousands or millions of tenants moving from one rented property to another, has zero impact on the property market. The only difference is that landlords will have different tenants in the same properties. I don't get what you're not getting. You move in well-heeled circles where your relations and associates do invest in property à la anglo-saxon. But I think the fat-cat layer is a thinner stratum of society than you realise. I'm not sure investing in property is such a good way to avoid taxes. You would be a sitting duck for increases in property taxes, plus-value, ISF etc.

Less than 3 months makes sense to me. If at all If more than 3 months and they apply for a visa, why would this attestation be needed as well? The authorities already know where they'll be staying because they will have put it in their visa application.

ALBF you keep repeating this "In was reported in La Figaro that 50 + % of French people want to move" and I keep pointing out that nearly 50% of French households are tenants not owner occupiers. So 50% of them wanting to move, does not mean an equivalent number of houses bought and sold.

I thought you couldn't apply very far in advance of your travel date? AFAIK you tell them what date you will be travelling and that's the date the visa runs from.

What you say is correct Cajal. But surely the answer is that you have various treatment options, some of which are even marginally safer for certain age groups than others, then you use those treatments on those age groups. I presume that the same applies to prescribing the Pill, I don't know if different Pills have different side effects but if they do a doctor will prescribe the most suitable for that particular patient. But I don't know why you quoted my post because what you said has nothing to do with the question I asked. Nobody else has answered it either. So I still don't understand why the fact that countries all over the world are making decisions in 50 shades of grey on the use of AstraZeneca, fits with the statement "Should I have expected that LBF would have kicked up about anything with a hint of anglo saxon about it? ie AZ!"

I really wish someone would explain to me how they can say with confidence that Norway has totally stopped using AZ for valid health concerns, the UK's special friend across the Atlantic did not approve it for genuine health concerns, Germany and numerous other countries have limited its use for valid health concerns, even the UK has slightly limited its use for health concerns, but the reason France has likewise restricted its use is because France has an anti-Brit complex and Macron needs help. I'm impressed at the knowledge on this forum, I mean you guys must be mind readers ???

I was baffled by the first sentence of the post too. If France has been isolated in expressing concerns over AZ, yes that would point to politics. But France is just one of many countries that's restricted AZ use, probably even the majority of those rich enough to be able to pick and choose, though I haven't counted. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/countries-resume-use-astrazeneca-vaccine-while-some-lose-confidence-2021-03-25/ Then there's Norway that's paused AZ use completely, and the US which decided not to approve it for use in the US - and yet it's France that gets the finger pointed at it as if it's behaving irrationally? I suppose the post it's basically saying that whatever the UK decides is right and France in particular should not bother its tiny brain doing its own investigations and making its own mind up what's safe and what isn't, it should follow the UK in everything. Although in this case the UK went from saying "These claims are ridiculous, they're nothing but anti-UK propaganda" to saying, in the face of mounting evidence, "OK we will investigate just to prove there is absolutely nothing in all this", to saying "Well OK so maybe it does occasionally cause clots, however the benefits outweigh the risks, but actually we won't give AZ to the under 30s". Which is basically the same conclusion that most countries had arrived at, several weeks earlier, except most countries are saying under 50s or under 60s. You have to wonder whether the UK felt obliged to set a lower limit purely to save face - I'm sure it would have loved to be able to say "Nothing in it, AZ is safe for everyone". I thought that to the French a "crise de foie" is basically the explanation for a proneness to indigestion, because the liver has taken a battering with too much alcohol and fat and toxins to filter out and it's struggling to cope. I'm sure British livers must also have crises because Brits also drink alcohol and eat fatty foods, and Brits certainly also suffer from chronic indigestion, but somehow British indigestion is not linked so closely to liver problems. So either French medicine has got it wrong again, or French and English digestive systems work differently. Or the third possibility is that I've totally misunderstood, which wouldn't be unusual.

There have been some great characters. And a few still left. Sadly I don't find this forum a friendly place to visit any more. But that's probably just me getting crabbier as I get older.

Yep, likewise had to initial every flippin' page. I think my notaire was quite good because for instance there were a few new DIY installations including the hot water boiler and she explained about the 10-year guarantee thing which I had never heard of before, and that it was up to me whether I signed the waiver or not. There were other things she went into that I was glad to have learned too, can't remember what. But I do remember was struck by how thorough she was and how useful I'd found her, which is probably why I'm surprised at how many people seem to see it as a formality, they just want to get a document and sign it and send it back and be done with. However this is all off topic for the OP since the house is in the family already, it's not like he's taking a leap into the unknown, and hopefully his notaire will take that on board.

Yes I agree it seems particularly pointless in this case since the OP is buying his parents' house. I'm sure I didn't see the deeds to my French house before purchase, they rolled up nearly a year later. Though if everything is now computerised it may be different. But I can't believe the notaire is asking for the deeds to be translated, the deeds are what they are and they're not the notaire's responsibility. Actually it's not clear to me whether this is the compromis or the acte, I was thinking compromis. As you say idun, if it's the acte then it shouldn't have changed significantly from the compromis, which hopefully they did get translated or explained to them. I remember a very long session with my notaire when we hacked through the compromis together and there were several points that I had to have explained to me..

Confused by all the references to deeds and poa and especially Woolly's reference to a survey, where did that come from? Surely all that needs translating is the contract to be signed, and I suppose the reason for that is that strictly speaking a French notaire is duty bound to make sure that a client who signs a contract drawn up by the notaire, understands what that contract says. Officially in the interests of protecting the vulnerable, and in practice more in the interests of covering his/her own back, so that a purchaser can't come back afterwards and say "my notaire let me sign this contract but if I'd understood that there's a right of way through my garden I wouldn't have signed it". Many notaires don't care tuppence whether English purchasers understand a word of what they're signing or not, but you seem to have hit on one of the few that do. You can try to convince him you won't sign anything you don't understand but if he insists there's not a lot you can do, it's his job and his career.

If you're a French resident there's no reason to be stuck in the UK. French residents can go home to France whenever they want, it's UK residents that aren't allowed to visit France.

As said, if your uncle was resident in the UK, inheritance tax is payable to the UK not France, regardless of whether your share is paid into a UK or a French bank account. Under UK inheritance tax rules, it's the total value of the estate that is assessed for tax liability, before it's distributed to the beneficiaries. By the time you receive your portion the tax has already been paid.

I'm not aware of a DD option but you can set it to top up automatically from your bank account. The monthly charge is deducted from your credit. As I recall, to set the auto top up from your espace client you go to the place where you top up and it gives you the option of a one-off top-up or topping up on a regular basis. You just have to put your bank card number in. There might be a DD option but I chose the auto top up. You can set your preferences, think I opted to trigger automatic top up when the credit goes below 5€, and to top up by 10€ each time. It works perfectly. I don't have to think about it and a couple of times a year (I use my phone very little) I get a text informing me that they've just helped themselves to 10€ from my bank. If you can't find it and nobody else comes along, let me know and I'll have a look and see if I can remember what I did. But I'd have to go back to my old computer and hope it remembers my password because I haven't needed to log on to my espace client for years and I have no idea what the password might be.

As I understand it, but I may be wrong. You declare your total worldwide income in France. France works out your tax liability on each source of income and adds them together. Say this comes to 2 000 in total. Then, for any sources of income which are not taxable in France, it deducts the appropriate amount from your tax bill. If none of your income is taxable in France it will therefore deduct 2k from 2k and the bill will be 0. If half is taxable in the UK and half in France, it will deduct 1K; It makes no difference how much or how little tax you actually paid in the UK. Well it does to you, but it makes no difference to the calculation because it's not taken into account,I'm not sure France even needs to know. But the trick is, you never get anything back. If you paid more tax in the UK than you would have paid in France, that's your loss. If you paid less tax in the UK than you would have paid in France, then the deduction France makes from your tax bill is less than the atual amount paid so it's still your loss. In effect, you always end up paying the higher of the two amounts. They're not daft, these tax people.

I believe France carried out its testing in its own overseas territorites including the Algerian Sahara (Algeria being a French territory in the 60s).

Funnily enough it's very springlike today, and I just checked the rules to see whether I'm allowed to drive up into the hills to walk a bit further afield than I usually do. Apparently I'm not.

alittlebitfrench wrote the following post at 22/02/2021 14:58: I really was born in the wrong century. It is like, I am 300-400 years in front of you lot. LOL Hmm. You sound more like a throwback to the 60s to me, when Blue Mink were singing about the world being a big melting pot. I'm all for peace and love and harmony, I was a flower child myself don't forget, but I don't want to live in a melting pot. I love the fact that Rome is different from Amsterdam, and Paris is different from Madrid. I respect that some parts of the world don't share Western values. Diversity is great, let's keep it, but let's have tolerance as well. I just looked at the lyrics, so hip back then but so un pc now. Take a pinch of white man Wrap it up in black skin Add a touch of blue blood And a little bitty bit of Red Indian boy Curly Latin kinkies Mixed with yellow Chinkees If you lump it all together Well, you got a recipe for a get along scene Oh, what a beautiful dream If it could only come true, you know, you know What we need is a great big melting pot Big enough to take the world and all it's got And keep it stirring for a hundred years or more And turn out coffee colored people by the score Rabbis and the Friars Vishnus and the Gurus You got the Beatles or the Sun God, it's true Well, it really doesn't matter what religion you choose No, no no Making Lady Favor Mrs. Graceful You know that livin' could be tasteful We should all get together in a lovin' machine I better call up the Queen It's only fair that she knows, you know, you know What we need is a great big melting pot Big enough to take the world and all it's got And keep it stirring for a hundred years or more And turn out coffee colored people by the score

NickP wrote the following post at 22/02/2021 14:33: Mind you, having heard O'Hooley and co if they didn't tour it would be a blessing. ??? That's a bit gratuitously catty isn't it? OK you don't like them but a lot of people enjoy listening to them and they're well thought of in the folk world. I do quite like them as it happens, one of them has a really lovely haunting voice (I've forgotten which is which now!), but I picked them partly because cos they're a typical example of a pair of young misicos ltrying to make a living from their talents and living on a shoestring at present, and partly cos they live a few houses away from where I used to live in another lifetime. I'm sorry NickP, I know it was just a throwaway comment with smileys to make it funny, but it's comments like that, that are spoiling the forum for me at the moment. Why is it funny to diss people and things that you don't happen to like or agree with, I just don't get it.

I see Nice and the surrounding area has taken a big step towards confinement. Attestations are back.

cajal wrote the following post at 22/02/2021 10:25: FoM, in 1992, now included 'goods and services'. That then enabled agents to book bands, consisting of musicians and crew of European origin, throughout the EU on a nod and a wink and a signature on a contract. Cajal I totally missed your post earlier, I only just saw it now. Thank you for explaining that to me, I hadn't realised free provision of services is so relatively recent. So I suppose the argument could be that since Brits only had this right for a short time, they shouldn't have taken it for granted. But in reality, musicians who are in their 20s now, never knew anything else. They grew up in a world where they can get an email on Wednesday from festival organisers in Barcelona saying 'one of our support groups has pulled out at the last minute, can you be here on Friday to fill in?" and they say Yes and set off. Now, they can't. And worse, the organisers will think O'Hooley and Tiddow are good, but they couldn't get here because they're UK based so it's no use asking them. To the negotiators the loss is insignificant but to to O'Hooley and Tiddow it's a biggie.

Why do you want to feel they are "your" cities? I don't get that. Can't you just enjoy them for what they are, without having to own them? I don't want to feel they are all "mine".

Yes but that is you, ALBF. Not everyone feels like that. You used to have a problem admitting that some Brits actually want to live amongst other Brits in the Dordogne. Now you have a problem admitting that some Brits don't like sharing their cities with foreigners. But really it's the same problem. A lot of voters in the famous "red wall" constituencies want to slap St George flags everywhere. They don't like foreigners, some actually hate them, and they don't want them in "their" country. France has avoided the problem by consciously keeping multi culturalism at arm's length. It insists on the French language being the official language, it visibly protects French values. So the French equivalents of red wall voters don't get ruffled. I suppose it's because they feel threatened and insecure. There's a lot of that about in the UK. It doesn't affect you but it does affect some people.

alittlebitfrench wrote the following post at 22/02/2021 11:12: ET said.....'so how would folks in France feel if they faced these barriers with their neighbours and basically their freedom stopped at the French border?' They would be upset like you me and everyone else. But, who is doing the stopping ? An unelected bunch of gangster thugs perhaps ? I did not vote for this. Did you ? Did nyone ? Did the French, Germans, the Spanish etc etc. The EU has been hijacked. I am European, I can live where I like. ALBF, it is lovely how idealistic you are. So sweet. But, if you want to go back to every country being separate and contolling its own borders, then that's what you will get. Borders. Immigration policies and controls. OFIIs and Priti Patels. There is a saying, Before you take a fence down, make sure you know why it was put up in the first place. I know you don't like the EU organisation, and there are lots of things to not like about it, but it was set up for a purpose. You might think it's doing more than it was set up to do, fair enough, lobby to reform it, slim it down, but you can't just get rid of it. Imagine a market square with no management and no rules. Anyone can set up stall and sell what they want at whatever price they want. Very soon you would have all the would-be traders fighting each other because there aren't enough pitches to go round and everyone wants the best pitches and everybody wants to sell, I don't know, ladies lingerie. It wouldn't work. You need a management to set up a fair way of allocating stalls and ensuring there is a good mix of products. Everybody hates the management committee, they are unelected gangster thugs who make people stick to the rules they've hijacked our market. But it doesn't work without them.. Or an apartment block with no rules and no management committee. The residents would be at each other's throats in no time. In your ideal world ALBF everybody would agree on what's fair and what isn't and nobody would take liberties at other people's expense. But, it's not an ideal world. About London. You are right, it's about as international as you can get. It's a great place for tourists, it's a great place for foreigners to move to and live in, but for the capital of England it's not very English. And that's exactly why so many people were persuaded to voted Brexit. They go to their capital city and they don't feel it belongs to them. And it's not just London that's become very multicultural. A lot of English don't like that, they feel it's gone too far and England has lost its identity. Brexit was sold to them as the only way Britain could control its borders and keep foreigners out. It was about controlling its laws as well but immigration was the issue that really struck a chord with a lot of voters.

alittlebitfrench wrote the following post at 22/02/2021 9:12: Can we agree that it is French politiciens (not the general French public) that have a problem with the UK. I don't think it's that they have a problem. A complex relationship if you like, but if you call complex relationships a problem then just about every country has a problem with just about every other country. Basically every country looks after its own interests. Sometimes it's in one country's interests to align with this or that other country, or group of other countries, sometimes it isn't. So there is always this flux of aligning and opposing depending on what particular issue has floated to the top. It's not like countries have best friends that they are always going to align with, and countries that they don't like and will never align with. France and Germany play on the same team and they have a lot of shared interests. The UK is now on a different team, it's a competitor. France is going to align with Germany on certain things, rather than the UK. It doesn't mean they have a problem with the UK. That's how it works at country level but as Ken says that is totally separate from how it works at personal level, there are cultural differences and sometimes prejudices and biases and all kinds of emotional baggage, and also like Ken says it is a generational thing too because young people have less baggage. They are going to make their own minds up based on what they find, not what their parents found. Sometimes it is simply a matter of getting to know the culture better, because natural reserve might seem like stand offishness at first, and there might be customs that you find hard to accept because it's not part of your own culture. So you can generalise up to a point but everyone's experience will be different. Some people are naturally more open minded and curious and adaptable than others, some people are I suppose more set in their ways and find it harder to be tolerant of different customs and different mindsets and meet people half way.