clarkie

hi mark this is my first reply to anyone on the site and your post brings my thoughts to a voice, we are moving to mayenne in about a month no kids , been coming here for the last 18 years also from leicester and also terrified , i work purley on line so my job stays the same i just have to change over from uk tax to french tax systems and pay the evil social security fees , leicester isnt our town anymore im 41 and i remember it when it was a lovely place to be now its dangerous and foreign more so then this part of france , im looking for a 40 year rewind to a time of saftey when people respected each other , here in the mayenne its still like that , i dont know if moving is the right thing to do i only know staying here will eventually cripple us financally and emotionally ,people in general dont make the move they stay within a few miles of where they were born and just moan a lot , coming to france isnt going to kill anyone the uks only a few hours by plane or car , learn to speak and read french , be honest with them ,be patriotic about your old country and and enthused about you new one and youll make friends and one day everything will seem normal and youll wonder why you stayed in the uk so long , its not an easy option this moving thing it pulls at the heart and mind and if your like me youll change your mind backwards and forwards everytime you read the forum , but whats worse waking up when your 60 and realising its too late , many people do return to the uk thats true but many stay as well and what happens to one set of people with one set of circumstanses is not the same as another , we too have a 60k mortage plus cards and god only knows what else , once you calculate what you are paying out in intrest alone youll see its not so bad tax fonciere and habitation are a lot lower then poll tax , no mortage , no credit cards , ok french tax is fine its the coges that kill but if you dont earn loads you dont payloads and a good accountant will put you straight , id rather be poor in a civalised society then rich in the hell that the uks become , if the spitfire pilots could see whats happened to the isalnd that stood alone they would weep ! .i say go forward backwards is just not an option anymore good look clarkie mayenne