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I thought that someone unrelated only got an abattement of 1500€ and then paid 60% on the rest. You need good legal advice about this from at least one notaire.

I think I feel about being english as the french do about being french. It is what I am and I wouldn't have 'become' french even if I had taken french nationality. Simply mes moeurs are english. I am not european. I have never wanted to be european and I do not believe or want a federal europe.

Everytime I click on any of the links my computer plays up and has crashed twice. Very strange, I'll have to see if any friends have a copy.   EDIT it crashed yet again, but just as I posted this earlier.All very strange.

[quote user="Suze"]You should move the the Dordogne - we don't get the Mistral here [;-)] [:D] [/quote]   But in a 'normal' winter it gets very very cold there. I was shocked when I came on here and saw how cold it gets there in winter. I expect cold here in the Alps and it was even colder there sometimes. Southern France is not always 'warm' weather.

[:D] I thought that they already had. Sorry, but the sports stuff was lamentable when my sons, (both tres sportif) were in college.

In Car:- Carte Grise, CT form if applicable, on windscreen and I always keep the form that I have had it done with my carte grise, Insurance green form,  the little vignette on  windscreen as has been said insurance form signed. Driving license and for every day use a form or ID with photo too.........carte/titre de sejour or passport. Life's too short, I agree, but this is one thing that every single french person I know has with them when driving. And I'm sure that that is why men have always carried bags with them. AND if the french do it, why wouldn't we uninvited guests not adhere to the law of the land.

If your m² habitable is going up that much then you need to get permission. This may or may not be granted depending on local rules. I reckon that an architect would need to draw up such plans too. A good idea to have a word at the Mairie and DDE before doing much more.

It is easy enough to work out. All children start CP in the September of the year they are 6. 6 cp 7ce1 8ce2 9cm1 10cm2 So if she was 9 in Jan 06 then she would have started cm1 in September 06 and will still be in cm1 now. No idea what the head is on about. She will be one of the oldest in her class ofcourse, but there is nothing wrong with that.

[quote user="bryansmith"]thanks very much for this useful information. I went to the Hotel des Impots today as I was told (wrongly now I realise) that the forms for 2006 were available in early March. I will go back again in May. Thanks once again[:D][/quote]   You said you had been in France for 18 months now, so you will have filled in a tax form last year.Therefore, you won't have to go and get them. They will send them out automatically.

He was the first french pop star I remember hearing  in 1981 and more importantly liking, with big dark white/light framed glasses and curly long hair. His music was always on the local radio station, and the refrain was something like Ay di oh on his most famous song of the time.  Thinking about it, I'd love to know what that song was, maybe I should listen to Radio Nostaligie.

[quote user="J.R."] Polite, well adjusted unsullen teenagers. Oh sorry wrong country! [/quote]   Does this animal exist? Think it is more like wrong planet than wrong country.

That's OK if he feels like that. And I know that it is very important to some mothers. It just isn't for me.

I always use viamichelin.fr.

I don't 'do' mother's day. My thought is that I and everyone else can be nice all the year round and don't need to be told what day to be nice or buy a loved one something special or do something special with them. My friend here says it is a good excuse for a fête, but I never need an excuse anyway.  

[quote user="Sunday Driver"] I've only ever come across one American in continental Europe. A few years ago, we were staying in a small Gasthaus in the Black Forest.  After checking in and spending a few days of ordering meals and politely passing the time of day with our female host (all in German), she asked us how we'd enjoyed our meal - in English!  I came up with the usual "You speak English very well".  She replied, "I should do, I'm from Chicago!".  After that, we got on famously....[:)]   [/quote]   And my husband was told he spoke good english by an american who was on a ski chair lift with him.

I seem to remember reading on a contract when I hired a care somewhere or other that if I got any speeding fines that the hire company would debit my card. He'd better check that they haven't done this before he pays. Paying once is bad enough, I'm sure he wouldn't want to pay twice. NB while since I have hired though, so don't know if this is still valid either, it was just a thought.[:)]

As parents are allowed to give their children,  50000€ and every six years without any taxes, I am pretty sure that I have heard that this also is allowed between children and parents. Either check with the fisc or a notaire.

In the past few years I have found some posters Carte Vitale obsede. I keep saying and will say again that the most important thing to have is the attestation from the Caisse de Maladie and that should be looked after better than any card. Once you have an attestation you are in the system and can reclaim for medical things. What each caisse de maladie does about issueing cards with an E106 which is usually temporary is up to them. The carte vitale is not that important really, convenient but not that important.

My bank manager wasn't acting dumb or anything he just played with the words. We had an amusing probably quarter of an hour or so debating exactly what my card should be called and as I say he wouldn't say it was a debit card, even though it is a carte a debit. Now that looks so OBVIOUS to me and sounds so obvious to me too, but there you go, he didn't think so. Young bloke he is and keen.

[quote user="Jo Taylor"] I got as far as the champignons, but told the pharmacist they were in my nettles, which I always confuse with my toes... [/quote]   Nice one, like hot water bottle and wheel barrow.

I think that I have had the best service apres-vente these last three years than I have in  all the time I have lived here really. In the past there are some things I should have done more about and didn't, others I persued, not always with success, but even when I was successful was left with a feeling of distrust. I am now very picky about where I shop. I don't buy things in Confo at all and some makes I stay well away from.

allanb, my french bank manager calls all cards credit cards. The notion of debit card is not quite the same in France and he kept giving me wry smiles and  kept shrugging when I was trying to get him to say that my card is a debit card. That was just before christmas.

If it would mean a drop in income, maybe you should take into account that France perhaps isn't as cheap as you might believe it to be.

It isn't that. We had a very good relationship when we rented, in fact our landlord insisted that we use his appt on the côte for free the year after we left. And yet still we didn't get back the full amount, something to do with the bail.

JK, I have always had a problem. I knew when I was 17 and off on my first holiday with friends that I was NOT going to the Costas, like everyone else. No way would I have gone anywhere full of brits. 35 odd years further on and I still feel the same. I went to Spain for the first time when I was 40, and we went to a very spannish place, I wouldn't have had it any other way. I really do not see the point in holidaying with my compatriots and no way would I want to live near them when I live abroad. I am really happy when I am home in England and have no trouble at all with being amoungst my own. I love it. Truth is that I have never ever considered visiting the Perigord. I do visit the perigord stalls at all the food fairs I go to, first stall I look for, but going there, no, we would always be going somewhere else if we were 'there'. And I may have passed through, I know that we haven't stopped there. As there are no mountains and no sea, so no skiing and no sailing and from what I can gather it was dying when we first arrived, just a job wouldn't have lured us. We were only prepared to move for a decent job and sailing or skiing, otherwise we wouldn't have moved. I take it that our priorities are rather different to most people's anyway. How many move to France with little idea as to how they are going to make a crust, or if they know what they want to do and then find themselves working darned hard as an artisan with an income that is not great. Or run a B&B, now that sounds like very hard work to me and involves too many jobs I just don't like doing.  I'm afraid so much wouldn't have suited us at all, obviously lots of things don't suite us. Views are not everything either. We have views around here that are breathtaking and I am saying this after all these years, they still can make me 'wow' and yet I want more out of life than views now.