Teamedup
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I would be worried too, won't the UK authorities be after you for not sending your children to school. A week I would imagine was OK, but a month? sounds rather too long to me for it to be in any way legal.
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I always have to log on, so I take it that I am logged off?
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I just have a question......
I have tried to be gentle and polite on this thread incidentally, but have you understood that you do have a gite?
The word 'gite' has become a brand a name, which as I have seen from your request, you consider it to have a very specific meaning, whereas it is a far more general word than that for providing accommodation.
And those who post on the Gite forum, are not necessarily members of Gites de France.
So to me it looks like tautology to have a gite forum and a b&b forum....still if it makes you happy, I will say no more about it. -
And I thought that the Gite forum was for you too. We have friends and they have a gite hte, which is a bed and breakfast.
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The intake for a french school year is year on year.......1st January until the 31st of December. So that means that any child born in 1997, will start CP this September.
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I realise that there are probably lots of brits in the west, but how on earth can you be competitive with the likes of the companies that JL'E has stated. You would have the hefty 'charges' of any french business. Your turn over would have to be phenominal.
Castorama is B&Q and I'm sure that they could sell cheap paint, they don't, but they probably could.
I would love to get cheap paint in France, but it would cost a lot to send it across to us here in the SE as I would never do the 11 hour drive to collect it from your shop, I could be in Dover in the same time. -
My husband gets all these spams that have been mentioned on his yahoo account. So not linked to this site I don't think.
What annoys me is that they don't always go to the bulk folder and I too would love a return to sender button without having to open the things. -
I'll put it this way. Them 'saying' a loft to convert doesn't mean that it has planning permission.
Re the windows, well we have two rooms in our sous sol, our sous sol is above ground, might I add. Both these rooms have 'normal' windows that look exactly like the windows in the rest of the house, but to convert these rooms into habitable m would require planning permission and we wouldn't get it, because when we had our balcony extended it gobbled up the rest of our permitted mhabitable.
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LAST EDITED ON 19-Apr-03 AT 09:18 AM (GMT)
Depends what you want. The last Dulux emulsion paint I bought here was well over 40 for a 2.5 litre tin......the same paint is being advertised in the UK for around 15 per tin.
Some of the electricial stuff......well frankly I can't use the adjectives my husband uses about it on here and I am talking about what is purportedly decent makes. Lots of things you can't compare like with like at all and it can be swings and roundabouts.
What I can say is that that 'competitive' aspect of UK sales is sadly lacking in our area and personally I know some of my future projects would be a lot cheaper if I could buy the stuff in the UK. I won't ofcourse, but it would be.
LOL you have to hand it to british newspapers, love talking out of their backsides don't they.... -
Yes you do. We had permission refused to extend our balcony and had to reduce our original plans and have been told that if we apply to get our loft converted there is absolutely no way that this will be allowed EVER!
I REALLY REALLY objected to an advisor on a british tv program telling a couple who were looking at a property in France that they could convert the garage into a room. The impression given that planning permission was not required, whereas it is. -
Now are you sure about the physical incompatibility here, re the big toes in mouths!?
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So how does this work in the Charente....you have A&E depts with people just awaiting accident victims?
How can they afford it, in fact how can we afford it, after all we pay rather large amounts of every last tax that there is in France.
And even if when we go to our local private clinics we have never had other than a wait of several hours. Although it would always depend on the nature of the accident and the time of day as to whether I would go to a private clinic as they are not as well equipped as the hospitals for A&E work.
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What? is the price of the medication, doctors bills, lab tests etc, that are agreed by the Social Security and then they pay out a % on that.
These charges can be more than the Social Security figures and the mutualists do not always cover these extra costs.
If you do a search there is plenty on here about reimbursements for specific illnesses.
You are asking how long a piece of string is here, that is why it is impossible to be precise. Normal doctors visits are 20 and we get 70% back. Medication reimbursement varies from nothing to 70%. -
Do you know something, those doctors records annoy me beyond belief. I was delighted to hear that there are pilot projects in the UK where people are going to start keeping their own.
You keep your own in France. But that doesn't mean that you take everything from year 'dot' to your doctor's everytime you go and see them. If you are on specific medication or have allergies or illness you obviously need to transmit that information to your doctor. The rest, well we seem to manage pretty well without these records being kept as in the UK. The hospitals manage without them too.
There obviously must be accidents due to lack of information being passed on, we certainly don't hear about these incidents. And they say that the system is pretty good here.
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Two questions for you here.....
Firstly how many years ago?
Secondly where?
We've been here 22 years and when we first came glasses weren't cheap and there was nothing in any supermarket.
Carrefour have their own 'specs' shops now, but that is quite recent really and frankly they aren't always the cheapest or have the best selection. -
If your principal residence is in France and you are spending most of the year in France, surely you will be french residents and should do everything properly.
Please remember that the E111 is only to cover emergency health care. You will need a mutualist too as an E111 won't cover all expenses by any means either. -
LAST EDITED ON 30-Mar-03 AT 08:30 PM (GMT)
Yes, you need full birth certificates.
I remember in the 1970's getting a 'short' birth certificate when we couldn't find the copy of the full one, so they are nothing new.
Also we had to have our birth certificates, in fact all our certificates translated by an official translator into french. I don't believe that all the depts ask for this. Do not have the short cut birth certificates translated, there is no point. -
My kids had the multi jabs. I have never heard of the 'single' jabs here, in fact as these jabs are obligitory one is expected to just go and get them done, fussing about them is unusual.
There have been threads about this though....try the other health part of the board they could be on there. -
You'll have to ask at your Mairie, we cannot answer on here as local planning regs do vary.
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From what I can gather you must report that you are epileptic to the necessary authorities. If you haven't had a 'crise' for a year and are being treated then they will more than likely let you drive. And the authorities must be kept informed of any change to the situation.
If false declarations are made OR not kept up to date, then it could invalidate your insurance too.
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For those of you who live in the UK and rent your property out could you please explain something to me......
About 4 years ago we were in Isgny in Normandy and I happened to call into the local gendarmerie.... I needed some information and was chatting away to the gendarmes. Well they told me about a house that was on the other side of the road a little further along from the gendarmerie. They 'suspected' that this house which was owned by english folk was being rented out to other english folk and was not being done so within the laws of France. They even told me that they had called at the house and each time no one was admitting that the house was being rented out, but that the people in the house were friends or family.....which ofcourse they might well have been. So what on earth was all this about.... Has anyone idea how this was illegal in any way.....apart from the obvious and that is that foreigners and perhaps even french people too should be registered in some way with the gendarmes when visiting somewhere.
These gendarmes were extremely proud that because of the thorough checking up on people the 'red brigade' or some other 1970's terrorists had been found in the region.
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I would say no. E111's are for emergency treatment and 'in theory' only for a limited period. Won't you need to apply for an E106.
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SUPPORT, well it was around 20 years ago, but what support would that be.
There were no ante natal clinics. I went on regular visits to my gynny who delivered my babies when due. No explanations about labour, or baby care, or anything at all.
But I did have to present lots of paperwork to the maternity section of the hospital when I 'booked' my bed.....which I didn't understand then as babies don't always arrive on the 'due date'.
How did it go, well it all went well. I had an M&S baby book and followed the photos when I got home to perform various tasks like bathing for the first time. No health visitors, or midwives at home either.....and frankly I am rather glad......My friend's baby is now a few months old and nothing has changed since I had mine.
I am curious as to how those of you who have had a child in the UK then in France found the differences. This certainly isn't my sort of thing, there again, I have never know other than the french system....and the french system suited me just fine.
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Zero income!
You can only ask, but as the law says that you cannot have more than a third of your income as a debt, and you have no income, I don't know what they will say. As far as I can tell they don't really seem to take into account one's 'patrimoine'.
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Here and well, there is virtually nothing.
Yes, I ALWAYS say that bright kids who can fit into to a ridgid system will do well, they do well in just about every system don't they. Deviants and it is another story.
I don't know where the french education gets such good publicity in the UK and if you look at most of the postings on this board it would seem to be echoed. Which always amazes me as when I talk to french friends and when I was on the school councils for years and years, rosey it ain't, for an awful lot of people.
Looking back my guilt and regret is that we ever let our children into the french education system, especially from secondary level.......this is not advice, just a personal reflection.