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We are leaving for Portugal end of March, then hope to travel round the Gascony area for ideas before returning home. We visited Corsica last year the locals not as friendly as in France. We have snow and its bitterley cold at the moment, however the rest of the country is in a state of panic because of weather running out of grit/salt for roads. We never seem to cope when we get  a bit of snow but there again do we just like to moan!

Thankyou all for the info, will read the web sites as suggested. We live 15mls north of Newcastle in the beautiful northumberland countryside and only about 5 miles from the coast. I suppose we are looking for similar surroundings but with less rain and a bit more sunshine. We did consider Spain but felt France may give us more security in the housing market and as motorhomers we have travelled and intend to keep on travelling around areas of France both in Summer and Winter to give us an insight into French life.   

We are currently researching areas of France to live in and find the info on the forum helpful. The current climate may dictate when we make the move but we will use this year to visit areas of France and hopefully 2010 make the move we intend selling up altogether. We live in northern England so somewhere with milder winters is a must. Any advice much appreciated.