I'd really like to hear from anyone who has moved to France on their own - especially if they're female, in their 60's and retired!!! Everyone I talk to about such a move seems to suggest that France is such a family-oriented place that anyone who is going there on their own is going to be really out of it!! I'm prepared to take that risk - but I'd love to hear if anyone has coped and survived all those harbingers of doom!! Cheers swink