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I only saw that for those over 65 will have their personal allowance increased to take into account that first layer of tax at 10%. We will actually be a bit better off when we return under this new system. I have just worked it out. I did realise that the lower income folks will probably miss out and pay more. The answer ofcourse would be for anyone who doesn't like it and there must be one heck of a lot of people affected to send by proper post letters of complaint again and again and again and swamp the chancellor, only people don't do that do they.

Ford Anglia, it was not tongue in cheek. From being small I loved it when the nights turned in early. I love the smells and colours of autumn. I love the cosiness of a home all warm and closed up against the elements. I just love autumn. Now my friend gets quite depressed about it all and hates autumn and winter and I know that she isn't the only one. So I do understand that there are people who love all the 'light' and long days. That just is not me that is all. The flip side to my long winter nights in the north of England are the long summer ones, I doesn't get completely dark, there is always that slight paleness to the sky.

You would have to check with COTOREP and see if he would qualify as being in some way disabled. I have no idea about this at all. He would have to apply to the caisse de maladie and see if he would be able to get 100% for his epilepsy, I would imagine that he would, but he would still have to apply. RE jobs. Well not taking into account anything else there is high unemployment especially amoungst the young in France. Many are just finishing or haven't long finished their studies at his age. So whatever he wants to do he will be competing with native french speakers. You haven't said what he does either. On here there have been people who have got jobs and been taken on to train, so it is not impossible. There are others, who have had a terrible time and not found other than tasks that do not in any reflect their qualifications.

So you will be working in France then, and should have a french branch of your company? You need professional advice too, and from someone who knows about the french side of things.

[quote user="Logan"]He has also increased personal income tax after 2008 by around 40% for the individual paying tax in UK.[/quote]   I didn't read that? where was that?

I heard that too, but they are on about finger prints or eye scans etc for the future, so I cannot see that we will just be able to just send in the application in the future, or maybe they will be one offs as well.

Logan, It needn't be like that for vickibear. They were like so many we hear of and leave within the first two years. It was a bit different for you as you speak good french and have been in France a long time. I do know of other long termers who have left and returned. I don't know why I am so sure that we will be OK. But I am absolutely sure and I am sure that many are after the french experience.

Drat, longer days. I just love autumn and those dark nights that start really early. Thanks for the reminder bugbear, I had forgotten.

Ok so you buy a seat ticket for your gwter or whatever, then what. What do you register it as, does it need a name? Will one's own name do as in our case Guitar Up. Will Saligo Bay's fiddle be Violin Bay. I am just wondering about this. And how are you supposed to get the seat belt on it? This is all mad isn't it. And yes 'it' should get baggage allowance, but would it.

ChezTinns, just get in touch with your Mairie then. Ask for the official texte and then make sure that they are not within their rights to have these trees. If they aren't then set the Mairie on them. Mairies do have some powers.

[:D] Bad LG, ofcourse they would as only 'me' and a couple of others have had bad experiences and apparently everyone else and everyone french they know must have all had good ones. My isn't it just amazing really. I wouldn't dream of posting about what has really happened to people I know when it has gone wrong. And I do know quite a lot of people who have had problems. My husbands knee surgery was a great success, there you go, a good story.  

Many people who own properties abroad do so via a company. Under current tax law, they could suffer a heavy tax charge meant for employees enjoying free holidays in a house provided by their employer.   That is a quote from the BBC stuff about the budget. This has been discussed in the past, has anything really changed.

I have always found a good choice of smoked salmon, from Scotland, Ireland and Norway, if memory serves me well, it is available in all the big supermarkets.

You can get immediate scans? Even when I was very ill they left me in a corridor at A&E from around 9am until 11pm when they got me in. My next scan had to be booked and I had a several month wait. That was at the end of last May and I still haven't had the results in spite of my GP phoning on several occassions when I was in his surgery. I would have got them if I had waited, however the potions they give to drink, and I always have to have two carafs and not one like everyone else, actually make me ill, as does that stuff they inject which 'tastes' like meths smells. So after my scan, I had to go straight home as there were no services available for me to lie down or run to the loo. My neighbour is a secretary at the hospital. The shelves with records on fell down in her office and the management suggested that one of the women got their mari bricoleur to fix it. I don't understand this, there is money in this region, so why have we got what we have got and the poorer regions of France are bang up to date and can waltz in and get all this remarkable treatment. It makes no sense to me at all. I am not suggesting that we have 'better' than anyone else, but parity would be rather nice. I know that the city hospital is not well equipped as my other neighbour moved here from Lille and was surprised as to how badly equipped it was when she started work there.

AR that is what I thought too. But what a leap from mines to checking cars over.

This couple mid fifties want to go home. For all we have spent half our lives in France now, we really do not want to be here for our dotage and juggle with two languages. It is obvious that I don't see France like most of the other posters on here. And I really have never understood why so many are moving here and why so many people tell me that it's their dream. In real life, I always ask two questions, 'do you speak french' usually the answer is no and the other is what do you know about France, and they know 'nothing' about it either. I don't get it. People will do what they want, but  bear in mind that it is said that an awful lot of people move back within two years.

That is what they do, we used to call them the 'service des mines', which I always found very confusing, but there you go. They check that the car is up to french standards, to put it very simply, it is probably more complicated than that though.

[quote user="Prasutagus"] Whether in the UK or France, my wife and I agree that we operate so much more successfully when we are together. We achieve more, we encourage each other all the time and, even after about 33 years of marriage, we hate being apart. I guess you reap what you sow. Message for teamedup - your post reads as though you are moving back to the UK, is that the case? [/quote]   Yes, always our plan.

I would like to see the answer to this one. ARE self employed people allowed to say that they worked 'X' hours a week?   What an interesting question.

I don't know, I would call the DRIRE and ask, that is all.

As I told my gyn/ob after my first one. IF it was testiclesthat had to be checked in such a manner, I am sure that 'man' would have invented a far kinder and gentler machine. She looked quite surprised and then laughed.  

My Dad's favourite cut of Pork, leg of pork. He just roasts it. I might put it in a casserole I suppose.

I said 'the french version' of Land of Leather, it was called  'L'univers du cuir' and their shops did look remarkably like the ones in the UK.

Surely the DRIRE will have to test the car. I thought that that was what happened with a certificate de conformite;

If I live in a fluffy world it is obviously better than yours........   Enjoy it.   Ah Georgina, you obviously don't get it at all. And you thought that tonyf was being offensive. Now I learned one thing from my mother and that was if I did pretty much the opposite to her, then I should end up being a good mother myself and I have tried, and think I have succeeded quite well. But I will tell you, IF I ever hear my sons saying something like that If I live in a fluffy world it is obviously better than yours........   Enjoy it. to someone who hadn't had their fortune to have a decent childhood, then frankly I would believe that I had got it all wrong. It smells of infantile nnya nnya ne nnya nnya and not the way properly brought up people would behave. A little less of the school girl taunts SVP, if you mother approves of such things, well, what can I say.