Thanks for the lovely video. I have trawled through all the posts on this forum. I am about to sell my house, and move to Languedoc. I dont know where I will live yet but I hope to rent for six months or so - then look around places. No one mentioned Paraza - I saw a nice house there on the internet but obviously do not know the area. I would like to live somewhere near the canal du midi. Until I saw the video I was almost in tears reading the bile from the Groslard individual. If he dislikes so much about France why does he not go back to wherever he came from. I am 70, and alone except for my lovely spaniel rosie. I live in Cornwall. You want unfriendly people (on one of the beauty spots down here near Lands End there is a wall with "British Out "in blue paint which has been there for the past 15 years. The emits (people who have moved here ) are really the only people who make friends with other emits of course. Cornish will say "Awl roight then" and sometimes "Hello my lovver" they are said to anyone and everyone, but in 16 years I have never gone inside a Cornish persons house. Also another worry was the post about racism. My granddaughter is stunningly beautiful and is at present in a drama college in London - when she came down in the summer I had a french language course on the pc - she was on lesson 18 in a week and I was on lecon une - she is mixed race - I adore her more than anything in life and I would die if she went through anything like the person who had the bad experience in the cafe. I have never read anything like the horrible stuff on this site about Languedoc. I look at the Creme de Languedoc site and people on their forums seem to love living there. I wonder now whether I should move somewhere in England. I want to move away from Cornwall because all the family now live up in London. I had thought about Sussex, Essex, or even Scotland. The weather in Cornwall which most people in the UK seem to think is mild and lovely. So far we have had 90pmh gales, rain continually for weeks. Summer last year was three weeks not even all together. The mist here can last for days on end. However, I love the beauty of the scenery, the sea, and lovely villages . The history of the tin mining etc., I have only recently started to paint, I love oils, watercolours and pastels. I do mosaics as well. I thought in France I would be able to have time and good weather to pursue these interests. My sister lives in Spain on the Costa Blanca where she is unhappy and will probably come and live with me some of the time. Carcassonne looks interesting, and the foothills look green and lovely. I have driven over the pyrenees to Spain before and loved that area also. When I first thought of going to France it was going to be the Charente but reading more Languedoc really appealed to me. I love the simple life, I have lived here on my own for 16 years and have never been bored. I love meeting people - socialising. I love beauty and from the video it is absolutely obvious that the Languedoc is extremely beautiful. My parents were both Irish, so I guess the peasant types appeal to me also the "chat". I dont expect everything to be perfect, nothing in this world is perfect, but I think it wil l be exciting and interesting - if it is as awful as the Lardyman says then of course I will return to this horrible country - want racism, drugs, stabbings,£1,000 heating bills, poll taxes of hundreds, food, travel, etc.,etc., there is not much going for the UK anymore. Perhaps Lardyman is French trying to put off us Brits from invading his lovely country. I ,must just add I have two french cousins, one lives in Paris the other in Nancy. So at least I will know somebody out there. I think I shall keep reading Creme de Languedoc to read the happy forum posts. Dont let the miserable ones put you off living in the Languedoc be like me and find out for yourself. Best wishes to you.
