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  1. Is there a Samaritan service or similar in France? I'm not there all year and lately I have been getting emails from my french friend who actually sounds suicidal. My friend's marriage has broken-up followed by massive tax demands from French government and his business has been dead this year. I can't get over for another three weeks so wondered if there was an organisation I could contact?
  2. Everything is expensive apart from public transport (& booze & cigs if you use them which we don't). So, we have made the decision to leave and will probably buy in Spain as near the border as possible as we love France and speak the language well. It will be a wrench but on our small income we can't afford to stay.
  3. I guess this should really go under food and drink but it's more a question about costs in the various regions of France. I have just spent a week with a friend in Majorca, ate out every meal, and the most I paid was euro 7.95 for a superb 3-course with wine. The average for just a cooked meal (meat, with veg or salad) was around 5 euro, the service and quality excellent. Then I get ripped off in South of France at 20 euros for a tiny piece of steak with frozen chips, no veg or salad. What are the average menu prices in other parts of France? Surely wholesale costs can't differ so greatly between France and Spain, or are the French just greedy?
  4. I have searched for a similar query as I feel sure someone else asked this question a while back - however I can't found it so can anyone help or advise? We want to sell our existing holiday home and buy a larger one in the same area. We will obviously have CGT to pay on the one we sell but I thought I had read that if we bought another property in France then this tax is not payable on the sale. If we eventually sell the new property would we then have to pay the CGT from both sales?
  5. You can get some good info from www.headdonconsulting.com eg the following: Re: Leaseback Property: It would be possible to sell before the expiry of the commercial lease. The lease would, however, continue with it being automatically assigned to the new owner. As for the VAT position, the VAT recouped on the initial purchase would be returned to the tax authority in proportion to the amount of time that the property was owned for. Note that should the property be sold up to 20 years after the original purchase, part of the VAT originally refunded can be recouped.
  6. Jon, I live in Nice part-time and although I've never seen any 'trouble' apart from traffic scrapes on the Promenade. I find the graffiti everywhere quite depressing, especially in the old town. It's such a shame because I think Nice is a great place to be, a real place with real people, warts and all, it's vibrant and it's got history by the bucketload, not like some of the white, bland, concrete places you can find in 'cheaper' parts of the med. The best bit - that view of the turquoise sea every day.
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