Well, all of this makes pretty gloomy reading and I can only add to the gloom. I have just come out of Gîtes de France as cannot pay the subs on the letings I had this summer so I decided to rent the appartment out. It's with an agent and a notaire and I've put it in the cheap local papers and asked everybody I know, stuck notices in supermarkets, whatever and so far no results. I am regisitered in the professions libérales at URSSAF, but don't make enough to pay the subs, so I went to ASSEDIC (when I phoned, they put the phone down on me - on vous entend très mal - I speak fluent French but have an English accent) where they told me I had de-register my SIRET. However I note you are allowed to be a job seeker and start up in a micro régime....... I've advertised in the French press and the English French Property press and had no response whatsoever. I've written to the local Chambers offering my services as an English teacher - all the letters go down a black hole so I follow up with phonecalls to be told frostily there are no vacancies or yes, we are crying out for native speakers, but you live too far away. Am paying a call to the local MacDo today to see if they'll give me a job. What else can I do? PS I also don't feel I am liked very much either. My neighbours tell their kids "be good or we'll send you next door for English lessons".
