Teamedup
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You need very good legal advice and I would check with at least one notaire about this.
As you say the problem could arise if one of you wanted to sell up and leave France.
It isn't quite 'wills' we make in France usually. Although one can make out a testatment, people usually don't. It is quite different.
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Yes in this village they go on a Saturday and lots of places around here. Some ski places and villages on the main ski routes have the same system as Val's. Some do Wednesday mornings instead.
So in one family you could actually have three kids doing all three systems depending on where you lived and which schools you had sent them too.
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Apart from child benefit, we qualified once for 6 months for a payment it was about £3 month and then it stopped. That was it. It is all means tested and we never got a sou for the rentree etc.
My son now gets help towards his rent, the lousy wages he gets, he wouldn't be able to afford to have the bed sit he has without it.
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Hernia op!
in Health
Gastines, were you living and working in the UK then. You see we will be paying in France, but we have been told straight that we ONLY have the right to pay in France, but not use the system when we leave. We can pay in one country, but once the E106 is in place then we lose our rights to use where we are paying.The whole thing is like trying to wade through very thick porridge. -
We need a UK pension history for the CRAM. It took a month or so to get here, but it is spot on.
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They've changed the rules then have they?
When my husband got his new passport it was with unendorsed photos last October. I think that if a person had changed radically then the photo would need endorsing.
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I've never seen any. I was really lucky though, when they had huge boxes full of stuff in the blanc sale I found my bedding again and bought extra things really cheaply.
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Even though we had a CAF number we wouldn't have got any benefits from having it, so I have never given it to any one.
I think it's up to you really as to whether you want to register with them or not.
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What an inappropriate name to have on a thread about pensions. The cheminots are gâter en France where pensions are concerned.
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Sorry ,but you don't know that British blood is not welcome, maybe just yours .
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http://www.dondusang.fr/le_saviez-vous.htm
Just to add to what has been said about it in french, it's at the bottom of the page.
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Our college pick ups usually mean quite a walk for lots of the kids in our village. We used to have to pay for bus pass for the year, I don't know what they do now. And those bags, well what can one say.
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I can see why we should get them in the country we live in. IF something happens then the consulate will have all our details won't they. As far as I know we couldn't send them back to the UK to get them renewed and timing a trip for a passport pick up is not always convenient.
My husband's ran out the day after he got back to the UK last autumn, we had had all the forms ready to send it off in France and had forgotten, which is probably lucky as there was a sudden death in the family. We had a lovely trip through to that lovely city of Durham and got the new one there.
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I can't remember if I have had vinegar with chips in the states, I am a bit used to it not being available in France, so may not have asked. There are times when I have asked for it and got it in France, once they brought a bol full of the stuff. We just couldn't work out what they thought we were going to do with it.
Truthfully, I would put just about 'any' vinegar on my chips. We rather like vinaigre de xeres at the moment.
And we do know french people who have chips with vinaigre on them and we have introduced others to it and they love it.
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It used to be just about the same price as those getting them in the UK, the reason being that the Home Office ued to run the service. It changed over to the Foreign Office and what happened the price nearly doubled. The embassy staff have to pay the same as us, apparently. We are suppoed to get our passports from the consulate if we are french residents. Although if we are back when they run out, then we can get them in the UK.
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I have heard this before, about 2/3rds leaving after 2-3 years in France, or trying to.
Who knows. We get so few posters on here, considering how many brits live in France.
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You don't have chips and gravy. Have you not had choice tender braised steak and carrots in a rich onion gravy with chips, firstly putting a little salt and vinegar on the chips. It is delicious.
In Quebec the quebecois have gravy and could eat a meal without a piece of bread in their hand and they have a local dish of chips gravy and a local cheese on it. That too was very good.
Well it isn't just a northern thing, as they have it on the other side of the Atlantic too. You southern folks are missing out.
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No, no SAD for me. My friend will be counting the days to longer days.
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Check out Peter Kay on the north south divide ragarding chips
Chips and peas please, don't do peas
chuips and curry sauce, don't do curry sauce
chips and gravy, don't do gravy
ast thou nowt moist?
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In the States and Canada they always served chips, well fries with gravy where ever we have been, just seemed so civilised to me.I do think that some french cuisine would be much improved with gravy and the jus or a sauce just doesn't do it on some things.
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[quote user="hastobe"]LOL hubby is just on his way to get fish and chips - and I have a big pan of mushy peas simmering on the hob...mmmmmm. If heaven is half as good as this.....
Kathie
Edit: we are northerners too vickybear and I agree we make, absolutely the best fish and chips - fried in beef dripping - non of this namby pamby low cholesterol stuff...
[/quote]After my own heart Hasttobe, I do that too, make a pan up and we go and buy the fish and chips, so much mushier and nicer.
TonyF, Stockton on Tees didn't smell of frying last time we were there. In fact along the riverside was splendid.
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Hernia op!
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So gastines, did 'you' pay for your op in France or was it taken care of by the french health service?
I only ask as for all we will be paying MORE than full whack into it when we leave, yet, will have no 'rights' what so ever in France.As non residents we have a surcharge to pay to the SS, likewise with income tax too
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Yes, as long as you sort your insurance out. Everything could end up being temporary, but that is OK. It all gets sorted out a bit later.
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When I spoke to Newcastle a year ago to find out how much needed paying we were told that only very few years were needed to get a full pension, something like 3 years. That wouldn't even take my husband to 60. So I said that I would check later.
This year I asked again, and as they are not sure if the 30 year rule is coming in, then we haven't paid yet.
I suppose that all one can do is ask for a copy of the 'plan' and see what is outstanding and what isn't under current rules.
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People often go on about how bureaucratic the French are; but this also means that often they are very good at dealing with it.
Ah no they aren't......... sorry but that is the only reply I can give to that little statement. I have been sorting out some stuff recently, only I can't. EACH little functionnaire has their own little idea about what is what.......I'm wondering if that is ringing any bells with anyone else. AND I just cannot get to the bottom of it all. I am going to have to get someone with enough courage in Paris to write and tell me what is what and it have enough punch for the functionnaires here to accept it as being what the rules really are.
Deimos, how good or bad is your french after all this time. Because if it is not very good then everything will still be banal. Maybe you don't mind this or don't realise, but how can anyone, even the paysan, have a good deep conversation about anything if the person they are talking to doesn't understand. I am NOT saying that you are unusual, but until anyone can talk the talk, how can anything be but banalities.
France will suit some people. Others and that dream place which would have been a wonderful house for a holiday for maybe a month is just being lost en plein campagne, isolated and lonely.
I would never live nulle part. I would holiday happily in such a place and that would lovely.
Even my village, which had everything we wanted for a young family, now hasn't got enough for me. I need far more people and things around me now. Ask yourself what you really like and what is going to occupy your time. I'm afraid that 26 years of my neighbour giving me a lettuce or a bag of cherries and just discussing how good they are, would not have been fulfilling, I would probaly be in my local mental hosptial, there again, even where I live, so many have been......... just realised that, now that is disturbing.
We are all different. Our needs are different.
CAF is this just for Child Allowance?
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Yes, as I said it is means tested. We have qualified for sweet fanny adams. I used to get sick of people telling me that 'I' should be getting the money at the rentree, we just didn't qualify. Everything is on the CAF website anyway.