Its very interesting reading this. My wife and two children have lived in france for two and a half years and are wondering whether to return, we love living in france and watching our children grow up here but from a work point of view my life here has changed for the worst. Being a self employed builder and working in an area flooded by british sounds like a dream workwise, but I have never experienced so much back-stabbing in my working life. I seem to be increasingly turning up on jobs and the start of the conversation is always cowboys, now after two months struggling for work and losing out on jobs to fly by night building companys, we are wondering if it is worth the struggle. Having had two very bad experiances with so called building companys here it seems that very few of the companys here want to employ you and the ones that do are cowboys who want to pay very little and dont care what sort of rubbish you knock out. Thats just our personal reason for considering returning to the u.k Rant over steve