AnOther
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The entire raison d'être for the CoE is for UK citizens outside of the UK so yes, they will send one anywhere.I'm not aware of an 'online' application for a CoE but then I haven't needed to look since I got my 'for life' French licence in 2013.
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I don't think the French know or care about the counterpart (which has been abolished anyway) and since it does not even list the groups a person is entitled to drive in terms of demonstrating that you are qualified to be driving is about as much use page 3 of the Sun! I certainly wouldn't want to be stopped by the fuzz in France or anywhere with nothing more than that between me and a seat in the back of of their car or possibly a cell! Even if a licence is in date the defining document is the Certificate of Entitlement (CoE) which DVLA will issue on demand and although the exchange procedure may not ask for it under the system introduced in Jan 2013 licencing authorities have a duty to confirm that a person applying for a licence is genuinely entitled to hold one (not banned in the UK for instance abd failed to surrender it) which they do by themselves requesting the CoE so I suspect that exchange of information may be where some of the holdups are occurring. My advice to anyone applying has always been to obtain the CoE and submit it whether requested or not and I reiterate it now, unfortunately for those already 'in process' that advice probably comes too late.As a matter of interest I wonder whom (if any) amongst those still waiting did include that, if not then in part at least you will likely have been instrumental in generating the delay.
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Evidently you have yet to learn that what happens at one prefecture is no guide to what might happen at any other, twas ever thus !
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The box outside is Oranges and I'm pretty sure that strictly speaking you have no right to open it and that actual telephone point in the house is where you should extend or reroute from. If you wanted to be uber picky then you probably shouldn't be in there either and any extending or rerouting should be by plugin extension cables.With that out of the way though the reality is that within your own property you can pretty much do what you want and nobody will give a rat's U-NO-WOT or be any the wiser.
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[quote user="alittlebitfrench"]You talking to me Another ?If you are, OH watched the French problem and told me about it. She is hardly going to make it up.I guess the programme is still on replay.[/quote]Yes but same comment, put up or don't post unsubstantiated drivel.
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Where on earth do you come up with the shit you post ?If it's backed up by facts then post links, if not then you're just trolling.
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Sh1t like this is why I don't like and won't allow forced updates.Just one of a number of reasons why Windows 10 will never be installed on any of my machines.
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[quote user="nomoss"]However, my laptop, using the same products, has just gone t*ts up.Every time I make a restart to install update KB4056892, or it decides to restart, it ends up with just a blue screen with the new Windows logo proudly in the middle.This cycle repeats ad infinitum.Nothing to do with this forum, but just saying.Apparently it's due to the latest W10 updates combined with an AMD processor.[/quote]Not just AMD and it's all to do with this: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/windows-10-update-kb4056892-fails-to-install/35281c25-94e3-4578-b341-6fc59e7cda7e?auth=1Some AV programmes can interfere with this particular update as they see it as malware so it's important to check that first, the supplier should have a notification if they have fixed it or not.
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[quote user="nomoss"][quote user="AnOther"]We decided a couple of years ago to have a complete change and relocate to Spain[/quote]You should definitely be able to look forward to a complete change etc..................[/quote]Well there's bitter and twisted !Of course I'm sure nothing will have changed in the 18 years since you left, just as it hasn't in France in the same time period !We have a number of friends living down there both long term and recent none of whom have reported any such experiences plus I will not be importing or exporting cars nor be a beneficiary of any Spanish pensions or even any Spanish derived income and if things go as we want it's very probable that we won't be buying into bricks an mortar either so while I thank you for the concern I'll take my chances [:P]
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If true then I would guess it to be predicated on the UK achieving it's pathetically unambitious pipe dream (no pun intended) of a legal right to 10mb for all which has zero practical chance of being realised any time soon.Assuming that to mean a guaranteed and consistent 10mb and not just an aspirational 'up to' the cost of upgrading not just the hundreds of thousands of crappy copper lines which can't possibly support that sort of speed but more critically the core infrastructure which would be required to eliminate contention is immense but that is the only way to ensure that speed is constant and not dependent on time of day and numbers of people online at any given moment.Without adequate speed - and 10mb barely qualifies - there is simply no way for a landline to even come close to emulating the multi channel viewing capability of the current crop of Sky Q boxes which makes a killing of the satellite service highly unlikely for many years to come.
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Good question !We decided a couple of years ago to have a complete change and relocate to Spain but then health problems interrupted, and of course Brexit, so despite our recently acquired Titre de Sejour's a wholesale decamp to Spain without knowing what B day might bring would seem a bit rash so we're probably going to rent in France for a while but spend a lot more time in Spain hopefully getting a better handle on the way the wind is really blowing there.It's all a bit fraught really and so unnecessary thanks to the feckin stupid brexiteers [:@]
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I wish, we haven't even broke even but then we have enjoyed it as our home for 11 years and spent very little on it in that time. If we were going back (which we're not) and converting the proceeds to £ we would be making a modest profit.Thing is all the FLUB's say that they put their properties up on Leboncoin and Greenacres but don't tell you that it's only for a limited period.Truth be told though the time lost since May has not been such a bad thing as it's only during this past couple of months that I've got completely on top my health issues so a quick sale back then could have been pretty stressful.Local french buyers BTW.
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Shook hands with a buyer for our house today.Been on since May with a selection of Immos but apart from a couple of viewings early on zilch. Advertised it ourselves on Leboncoin on Sunday, three immediate viewings and a buyer in 4 days!Immos are all FLUB's
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Is it the closing chapter in this predictable tale ?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/8351968/Why-this-expat-said-au-revoir-to-the-French-dream.html
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Citizenship totally trumps Brexit and all questions arising from it, that's the advantage. Although language skills may be relaxed for seniors I think a working knowledge of French culture and history remains. Be interesting to hear from anyone who's been through the process recently though, I've heard it can take a year or more so not much time to make a decision to go down that road.Edit: formating a product of my tablet which I rarely use for such tasks.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><table width="85%"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/forums/completefrance-forums/cs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"> <strong>nomoss wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"><BLOCKQUOTE><table width="85%"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/forums/completefrance-forums/cs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"> <strong>nomoss wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">I find it strange that new devices won't work with existing environments.<br><br>Luckily new cars don't require the roads to be redesigned<img src="/forums/completefrance-forums/cs/images/emotions/w00t.gif" alt="Woot! [:-))]" /><br></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE><br><br><br><BLOCKQUOTE><table width="85%"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/forums/completefrance-forums/cs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"> <strong>BritinBretagne wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">Well now you know. Actually the road networks have changed quite a lot as road vehicles have advanced.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE><br><br><br>I went out to look at some new roads yesterday and noticed that old cars work perfectly well on them. Maybe you didn't know<img src="/forums/completefrance-forums/cs/images/emotions/biggrin.gif" alt="Big Smile [:D]" /><br></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>Using a CrApple device by any chance ?
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[quote user="alittlebitfrench"]You are just being ripped. I really don't know why you can't see that.[/quote]Coming from a CrApple fan that's priceless [:D]
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For the benefit of all (CrApple i-wotsit users possibly excepted but hey, you made your choice [:P] - and of course Chancer who seems to have an enduring capacity to come up with problems few if any have ever seen before) you do not need to physically copy/paste anything, simply highlight a link and drag/drop it to the address box or the tab bar.Also, although this will be more browser and default search engine dependent, if you highlight text in a web page and similarly drag/drop and it should open a new window as if you'd done a search for the term or words.For instance dropping the word Connexion into my Firefox tab bar (Waterfox actually but same difference) opens up a new tab with this:https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Connexion&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB
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Théière is correct and in fact nothing has changed but the way Firefox is looking at sites and reporting, your passwords are no more or less secure.To stop the behavior type About:config into the address bar, accept the warnings, then find the key 'security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled' (which should be showing 'True' ) then double click on it to toggle it to 'False'You will never see the message again.
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There NHS model is the only one of it's type in the world and for pretty obvious reason, it's unaffordable - or at least at a price UK taxpayers are prepared to pay for it to retain it's 'sacred cow hands off ' status.It suffers too many ills and bad practices to even begin to list but to throw just two into the mix; there was a report in the news just recently (the result of a Freedom of Information request so fact not tittle tattle) about a GP who was making £700k per annum with the suggested justification being that he is probably a senior partner in a large group of practices or a federation. A disturbing number of others were reportedly raking in several hundreds of thousands and the unvarnished truth is that there is something deeply wrong with a system which makes such obscenities even possible.Corbyn can shriek about privatisation as much as he likes but that began with PFI which, although originally a Conservative initiative under John Major, really took off and flourished massively during the ensuing Blair/Brown years.
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Is this from your crystal ball or do you have something of substance to offer, like a link to an official source !
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Lets not forget Brexit, who knows how that might change things we currently take for granted
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Surely you've advised your bank of your change of address to UK although I have little doubt that responses to that will vary not only from bank to bank but quite likely down as far as branch to branch !
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A 'tarif de base' 6kw supply, which I'd expect most to be using, will cost you €100 p/a which is €0.24 per day which leaves around €0.94 for the electricity itself which roughly translates to 6 kWh per day which I guess is doable for a careful single person household not using electricity for heating or cooking but your monthly or quarterly bill should give you a breakdown of what's what.
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