SheilaM

Yes, I could do Conveyancing exams but they would be of no use whatsoever in France (unless of course I took them in France!) As for registering a UK business and working in France I was always under the impression that it would cost me twice as much in taxes. I was made redundant from my previous job 18 months ago and tried to set up a secretarial business working from home.   I did the advertising, the mailshots and 18 months on (and 12 months into my current job) it still hasn't taken off.   I still have the website so perhaps that is an option. The original plan was for me and my husband, my son and his girlfriend, to sell up here in England and find a business that the four of us could run together.  Sadly, my son and g/f have taken themselves off to Australia for a year.  I suspect that they will return there to live, which totally screws up plan A! This plan of ours is very much at the basic research stage and if it's going to happen at all, it won't be in the immediate future (unless our numbers come up on the Euromillions that is). I am grateful for all replies and if anyone has any more suggestions, please do let me know! Sheila

Hello all, My husband and I (having become totally disillusioned with life en Angleterre) have started researching the possibility (or not) of living and working in France.  We are currently learning the language (me with the aid of an aquaintance from Nantes via private messages in a Motorsport forum!) and have no set time limit within which to fulfil our dream (unless of course we win the Euromillions Lottery tomorrow :)). If (and at the moment it is a very big IF) we do decide to eventually settle in France, our ideal location would be around the 37, but I suspect there is little chance of work there, beautiful though it is. I am a Practice Administrator for a small firm of solicitors in England (before that I was a legal secretary for 30 years) and my husband is currently a van driver.   We haven't got masses of money to throw around but we would like a better quality of life than we have now. We realise that living in France sometimes isn't all it's cracked up to be and we would hate to make the mistakes that the people on "No going back" make, hence the research stuff. We also realise that no matter how many French forums we subscribe to, no-one is going to send us a PM saying we are exactly what they need and would we like to work for them and oh, by the way, accommodation in the Chateau will be provided free of charge[;-)] Our "opportunity for a solution" (we don't do problems!) is, we need to change our lifestyle, but to do so, we need to change our jobs - does anyone have any suggestions as to what we COULD do (once we have learned enough of the language).  I guess in my case I could always try a Notaire or an Immobilier, possibly assistiing British clients.  Comments and advice please?