Nadia

Hi Afy, My husband has sent you a PM about his IT skills.  I hope you got it alright.  

Thanks, Deby, for your info.  Grenoble would be a possibility then but we are really focused on going to live in Western France (the Vendée region is possible).   Nadia

I am French myself and I often use "Veuillez agréer, Monsieur/Madame, l'expression de mes meilleures salutations."  You can't go wrong with the word "salutations".

Hi Emma, Here is a good website on letter writing in French: http://french.about.com/library/weekly/bltopicsub-l.htm Hope this helps!  

Thanks a lot, Karen, for your encouraging response.  May I ask you which region of France you live in?  I must say that at the moment I am writing many letters and sending our CVs but I was really wondering if all this would come to something positive in the end.  I am French myself so, normally I should be able to find work more easily but the problem is that I have a PGCE and not the CAPES, so it restricts me into my choice of teaching in France.  I don't particularly like teaching in secondary schools anyway, but I really enjoy teaching adults.  Did you move to France before you both found work?  You see, this is our problem - we are worried about the risk we could take if we were moving there without a job in prospect.  We know where we want to go (Western France) but we would like to do the move once one of us has a job there. Are you enjoying your new French life better than your English life?  Do you think the move was worth it? Thanks again for your help. Regards, Nadia  

Anglo/French couple seeking employment in France from September 2006.  47-year-old English man currently ICT teacher in secondary school, looking for opportunities using IT in France (Western regions preferred).  Reasonably fluent in French. 43-year-old French woman currently language teacher in FE college, seeking any sort of teaching of languages (English at any level, Spanish at beginners level).