[quote]It puzzles me why people want to leave the UK and live in France .......................and then want to turn France into another version of the UK!!!!! Perhaps the French like things just the way the...[/quote] Phew, I was beginning to think I'd joined the wrong forum I want to move to France, because it is France. I hope it takes many years to leave the time warp, preferably 30, cos I'll probably be dead by then. I live in North Devon, moving here to escape the manic South East of England. I have heard fellow incmers complain that, "there is no infrastructure!" Yes, I think, thank goodness, that's why North Devon has remained as beautiful and peaceful as it is. Please don't make France another UK, where shopping, eating and entertainment is non stop.