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[woolybanana]

Inheritance taxes were not in my plans when I came to France about 20 years ago. My kids will do OK when I go, thank you very much.

Unless the UK debt is really brought under control, then reduced and unless young people are able to buy property the tax on inheritance will have to go up at some point.

The garbage was related to Brexit, by the way.

Seen from the outside, there is little reason to go live in the UK nowadays.

Have you ever lived in France, by the way, or are you just an occasional visitor, if that?

[ebaynut]

Luckily I was spared the ‘French experience’, you know what that is,  it is where you move to France with what you think is a shed load of money and the bills keep coming and the cash keeps going, till you are happy to return to the UK with FA, and you consider that a result.    We were planning to move there and had found a place in 16, when the French government changed the healthcare rules and we were unable to go. As I have stated before, the best thing that could have happened for us in the the long run, UK property prices keep rising, and if we had brought in France back in 2007, what we would have brought would have dropped like a stone by now in value.   We visit France most years, when Mrs EBN is well enough, a very beautiful country, but could never live there now, its totally spoilt by the French government, and the way it makes all its citizens remain poor. Never noticed that when we thought of moving.  Perhaps this is the ruling elites revenge for the Revolution??   Friend of mine has a holiday home there, and always say, its the worst buy he has ever made financially speaking, but enjoys being there, just as well, because as he says, if he was to sell, the loss would be huge.