Families

[Darren, Vicky and Amelia]

Hello,

 

We have lived in France for 5 years now. We love it, but we are fed up with not being able to socialise with people our own age, or people with young children. We have a 4 year old girl!

We live in dept 47 and are thinking about moving to another area where younger people may be.

Are there many younger people near you?

How long have you been there?

Do you like the area?

Cheers in advance

 

Vicky

[Teamedup]

When my kids were that age, we made friends with parents via meeting up at the maternelle.

If you live in the country you'll find that lots of young people leave the country to work in towns, leaving an older population anyway.

And if you live in towns, everyone is working, but at there is more likliehood of younger people there.

 

 

 

 

[LanguedocGal]

If you've lived in France for 5 years then you know that the countryside generally is hardly teeming with younger people.

You do not say how old you are but to follow up on what TU says, you'd obviously be better off moving nearer a large town.  

I spent the last few days in a hamlet only 40 minutes from a large town and I felt like it was the end of the world (how many r uddy trees does one need to see every day!!![+o(]). Even the French owner in her 70s, who grew up on the farm, thinks its two isolated at only 6 km from a 'living village' and lives in Montpellier.  I'd say you really need to move very very very close to a relatively large town to have a full and varied social life.