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I really like the Jura, but we live in the Alps and they are exceedingly beautiful for the most part, so I know where I would always choose, but then the prices of buying here are dearer. You are right about the music. I live with a musician who cannot wait to get back to the Uk to play all the time, instead of very very rarely here, if we lived in a city, then it would be a bit different but en plein campagne it isn't the same and there still isn't enough music for him either. We have musician friends, some amateur, some what I would call semi professional as they just cannot make enough to live on and others that are interim de spectacle, which is certainly not what it was, but they manage to make a living. If your music is really the 'thing' you need then I would start coming over and finding out about every little spectacle there is in an area you fancy and talking to people about what you want to do and where you should be exactly.    

I have no idea why Perpignon is classed as SE France on here. And it riles me to write that. I have what, a six odd hour journey to get there, maybe more and that is only because of the motorway. It is also on the spannish border, not known for being east of France AFAIK.  

I'm not surprised as you are really handy for cheap flights into Geneva.

I actually think settees in France are of poor quality. We have bought several since we have been here including good makes. We bought our first from the french version of Land of Leather and it was expensive and that was the first time I needed to see one of the consumer associations, which we had to join to get the problems sorted out. The sorting out was of a temporary nature as once the problem was fixed in one bit, it would start somewhere else. The second was a cloth one, and my MIL bought one in the Uk at exactly the same time. She got a three seater, and two armchairs one that became a 'relax' chair. She didn't even pay much for it. I bought a Jacque Lelieu. Hers was still going strong when she passed away quite a number of years later and her husband still has it and it is fine. We got a two seater and an arm chair, for several hundred pounds more,  ours had had to be recovered after the first year and we were told that they wouldn't do it again as we were using it too much. And it is true, they call excessive use something like sitting on a settee 4/5 hours a day. Now me, I thought that was normal. The last one we bought hasn't been too bad, another leather one. It was far more expensive than I could have bought it for in the UK, I am sure that I have seen the same model over there, it looked the same at least.

Apparently b i   t c    h      is not a nice word. Only that is exactly what we have.

  You need to contact or call in at your Mairie and ask what local by laws are concerning hedges and trees. You don't say how far they are from your boundary. That will count for a lot in this. If these trees are within say two metres of your boundary, then usually they cannot be more than 2 metres high legally.   And I really think you should have contacted your insurance company immediately about the fence. We only have a certain time limit to contact them about things.

But Mark, I have always been told that global warming will mean that we could be in for very very cold weather. Either I haven't understood, or you haven't.

[:D] Or they found one of those parked brit cars that have no insurance or road tax and brit plates and thoroughly illegal in France. Now that would deal with them wouldn't it, blowing them up[6]

We currently use Ukanuba and have used Royal Canine.  As our bitch was sterilized we were recommended to give her a bit less than the prescribed dose on the packet, which we do. It doesn't look a lot for a big dog. However, the vet always says what good health she is in and has been on this food for over 10 years now and she isn't over weight, and certainly not under weight.  

The jab is against the worms and the frontline for ticks and fleas and the vet has to do both these things 24 hours before traversing and duly marks the paperwork. I must say that I really don't understand why everything written states that an animal becomes the resident of another country after three months and yet the passport is valid for two years from the UK. I am going to have to check all this as we are going back.

Vickybear, I wish you luck with your move back. Thank you for posting all that.

If you didn't know, a decimal point in France is a comma and a comma in numbers is a decimal point.   ie €19.000,00   Using ebay France requires numbers to be done like this. I don't know where else uses this sytem, but they certainly do in France.

Charallais, have you phoned Newcastle about child benefit? Their number is 0044191 2135000.   Will I knew about the E128 and various other add ons to the EHIC card, cannot remember E128 being mentioned on here at all though.

We had this problem with ours, as did our friends dog. The lady who had kennels that we used and had a little shop at the time selling dog food suggested that we take our dog off anything with beef in it and go for something like lamb and rice dried food. The vet would just 'give' her an injection and stuff to rub on. We tried the diet change and our dog has been fine since. Our friends dog was always a terrible mess with scratching itself and the vets bills were mounting up. We kept telling her to try not giving her animal beef and she did just that eventually and that dog cleared up too. We have known as I say several dogs over the years with this, I have always suggested that the owners give this  a try and let's face it can't do any harm. I have to say that the price of the lamb and rice dog food seemed expensive when we first started with it, but it isn't so bad really and a 15kg bag lasts ours two months.    

I agree with Clair. And the other thing is no one knows really what goes on behind closed doors either. I used to envy friends a lot, and sometimes wish their mother was mine. As an adult with the same friends I have found out some pretty bad things about other people's home lives. You just never know.

[quote user="Clair"]I don't think Russethouse is upset, merely replying to / clarifying your comment about large number of posts. As for TU, anything positive about France seems to generate a contrary reply, so it's not personal! [:D] [/quote]     Clair, I know you are french, but frankly, do you actually imagine in real life I could be saying as many 'bad' things about France as the average french person. I don't.  In REAL life, I actually have to stick up for France quite a lot and will get shouted down for trying to put a positive note on some things......... surely you know how it is[8-)]  

One thing having my mother taught me, was exactly what sort of a mother I did not want to be, so there can be positive things about it. The only thing was I was relieved when I didn't have a girl, as she was always far worse with me than my brother. I think I was more than a little worried that some of it would rub off with a girl. As it happened I had two boys, but I know now that it wouldn't have mattered if I had had girls anyway, I am not she.

Gardien the truth is that I find pink fluffy very unhelpful. How on earth can it help anyone. I believe rightly or wrongly that it is the pink and fluffy that had drawn people to France in the first place and  it could still lull people into believing certain things that might be far from the truth of what would really happen to them in the same situation. AND a lot of people daren't post bad experiences because they might get jumped on. AND if you think that the pink fluffies get jumped on on here,well there is enough pink fluffyness that still goes on on here and just look at how much is on the tv and in Uk papers about France, so pink fluffness gets more than it's fair share. So me and a few other little voices kick up from time to time as we don't appreciate it or like it.  True I haven't lost my posts. So what. I was attacked when I made my very first post, just took one. So comments about the number of my posts, whatever the number is, is really water off a ducks back. I have to say that I didn't expect my hospital stay to be as it was. Not at all. I was not badly treat because I was english either, the first lady who shared the room on the ward was treat poorly and the second, well it was a downright disgrace. AND when we said something, we were told to put up and shut up as we could do nothing about anything. Only I did do something and won a little victory, but certainly not the war. I should go and get a medical problem sorted out, I have not the courage to do it, I am just not up to it after what happened last year. 'the way you tell em'.............. am I  supposed to be liked or loved on here. I don't know how to post any differently anyway, and I have no complexes about me or who I am. In real life I am softly spoken and actually rather pleasant usually, and when I  hear things I disagree with and then with a soft voice,( if I raise it I squeak, so I don't,) I will disagree with a passion. So how different will I be to most of the french people around me? It isn't as if I would stick out or anything, now is it?    

Had you misunderstood, no I don't think so. Animals become french residents very quickly, only three months and the boosters for french animals is every year.I'm due at the vets next week with our mut, so will ask there, unless the vet tells me something different or someone shows me something official then I have always read that dogs in France should have their rappel each year. http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/factsheet/euvetfactsheet2.pdf  If you open this link then you will find what it says about residence, near the bottom of the page and to be careful about obeying the rules of the country you are taking your animal to reside in. I wouldn't have done as you have done. I would have obeyed french laws and vaccinated my animal within the year, there fore adhereing to french rules. I  think that you are really lucky that you resolved this to your satisfaction. I don't think that everyone will be as lucky if they do the same as yourself.

Living in Switzerland and whipping over the border to see the dentist or doctor.... LOL.   How would that work then, would the french doctors and dentists be cheaper, you wouldn't get reimbursed if you did it that way. I think that the Jura would be the cheaper option really and ofcourse there is easy access to major swiss cities from there too.

I think that I would be phoning the Prefecture to see what local by laws are. I am sure that they should not be doing this at all. But as you say, that is what happens and when people are in with the people at the Mairie then it gets even harder.

How did it go CinqE?

Heath wouldn't the poster want to know what they would be earning. Surely if they were sub contracting then they would have all their cotisations to pay from that amount. I'm not sure how a sub contracter would work either, aren't they just someone self employed?

In Brittany try kouign amann eaten warm, really and truly delicious.

We are chalk and cheese. I knew I needed someone so very different to me from the beginning. And for all our differences we are  in tune too and have moments of silliness and I don't know if other couples are as mad together as us. We sometimes row, we've never done the not going to bed without making up thing. Lots of laughter and love making and I don't think a couple can go wrong.