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grabbed a bottle of scotch whisky & the Scotsman's crepe & dashed over to his French neighbour Claude who was sitting on a tree stump staring at his

Couldn't have put it better myself Logan. Horses for courses & all that! The main thing is to live every day as if it were the last & look for the positive in everything.

Hello to everyone. We have lived in Spain and now live in France. We moved to Spain for a cheaper lifestyle (which it was) taxes, food, fuel were all much less than in the UK or France. We have family in Madrid and it was nice to be able to drive & visit within 5 hours. What we didn't like was the unbearable heat that went on from May to October, the mossies that plagued our lives for months on end, the lack of close community as people buy & sell all the time there & although we bought a nice house in a good residential area, we were still plagued with noisy tourists drinking & screaming in the pools until the break of day. Crime was bad, we were burgled twice but we knew of people that were burgled many more times & gangs from Eastern Europe operated around the airports robbing tourists in their cars. Noise was the worst thing in Spain as the Spanish don't generally go out until late in the evening, there are fireworks almost nightly during the summer, open air rock bands and dirty, noisy lorries everywhere due to the massive building projects (& we were in a small town on the coast.) The dreaded land grab was never resolved & people are still having their land stolen and having to pay huge amounts to the government.  Believe me, It wasn't exaggerated & we knew of hundreds of people including the Spanish whose lives were devestated by this awful law. Some people love noise and a vibrant lifestyle, but for us life in Spain was horrible and we never felt safe there. France however does suit us. I'm not saying it's perfect, nowhere is.... but green fields, wild animals, peace & quiet are our priorities now. Yes, it's more expensive than Spain for day to day living but property prices are much less in France and the houses are better built. We would never go back to Spain and have found the French people to be much more friendly and welcoming.  Fortunately we have now settled happily in France & intend to stay.

Soory, but I have to agree with Nectarine We have used load up on several occasions in Spain & here in France & have had no problems and fond very good prices for our removals. We are not in any way connected with them and therefore have no ulterior motive here.