NormanH Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/15/kicked-us-town-would-die-overnight-british-expats-picturesque/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Cannot read article without a subscription. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Yes, thankfully you need a subscription to carry on reading the full article because I probably would end up choking on my own vomit if I did. Ibiza, Costa del sol, Eymet. The same old shît.Brits abroad. Bless them.I prefer Petersfield any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 idiot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 I thought of albf last week when a couple from Paris came to look at our house - (we're half-heartedly trying to sell it, don't really want to.)The house is isolated, surrounded by beautiful scenery, view of Pyrenees etc. They seemed to love the place, were looking round for over an hour. They made an offer, but it was a bit too low so we dropped our price a bit and now are waiting to hear. I'm not optimistic though, there are so many other similar places for sale.But this couple were planning to live here full-time, so some toonies in France are similar to those in England (Londoners anyway.) Longing to get away from the rat race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted July 16, 2017 Author Share Posted July 16, 2017 There are crowds of property- poor Parisien baby-boomers (because they rented or were in a logement de fonction) who are looking to buy or rent in the South in their retirement.I lunch regularly with some of them who have even discovered Béziers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 You are leaving us Patf ?The trouble is, the townies (French or British) think it is a good idea to move rural and breed chickens but they really don't know what they are letting themselves into moving to such an environment. It works for some but I bet for most it does not. I saw it when I grew up in rural Wiltshire when the Londoners started to arrive. You have to be born and bred in the country/rural (like me) to survive. You either have it, or you don't.The numbties from London will get eaten alive in rural France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 and yet rural Wiltshire seems to have many more townie escapees than locals these days. The locals having been priced out of the housing market by the off-cumbands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 by the ...??? What's an off-cumband? Is that Wiltshirese? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 No it's Yorkshire Dales, which enjoys a similar situation of:them as cums off from t'city buys up t'village and then are just there for th'weekends.Edit: Google translate probably won't work, but I can do a translation if you need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 My late husband, also a Yorkshireman, used to call them 'offcumdens". Around my part of the East Midlands we call them 'eastwinders' - thought to be a left over from when the Vikings came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Ah, thanks for the translation!Coming from urban West Yorkshire we didn't used to have that problem, you'd have to bribe them to move in... though it might be different now it's been cleaned up and trendified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 I wasn't talking about rural France which seems to be an obsession with albf.I said 'the South'. That includes a number of urban areas, agglos etc.I mentioned Béziers, but any of the towns not far from the coast are seeing the same pĥenomenonSi Toulouse (453 300 habitants) devance Montpellier (268 500),cette dernière progresse plus vite (+1,1 %par an / 0,6 %). Ce sont les grandes villes de France les plus en croissance depuis... 50 ans : 2 900 habitants par an pour Montpellier et 2 800 pour Toulouse. Les suivent Nîmes (146 700 habitants), Perpignan (120 500), Béziers (73 000), Montauban (56 900), Narbonne (51 900) et Albi (49 200Si Toulouse (453 300 habitants) devance Montpellier (268 500),cette dernière progresse plus vite (+1,1 %par an / 0,6 %). Ce sont les grandes villes de France les plus en croissance depuis... 50 ans : 2 900 habitants par an pour Montpellier et 2 800 pour Toulouse. Les suivent Nîmes (146 700 habitants), Perpignan (120 500), Béziers (73 000), Montauban (56 900), Narbonne (51 900) et Albi (49 200Languedoc-Roussillon (+ 1,1 %) et Midi-Pyrénées (+ 0,8 %) enregistrent les croissances de population les plus hautes de France, après la Corse. L’ensemble a gagné 51 100 habitants par an (27 900 en Languedoc-Roussillon) entre 2007 et 2012. L’Hérault et le Tarn-et-Garonne affichent un taux de croissance “ record ” : +1,3 % par an de 2007 à 2012. La Haute-Garonne est tout près, avec 1,2 %. Le Gard gagne 1 % par an, l’Aude et les Pyrénées-Orientales 0,9 %. Aucun des 13 départements n’a perdu d’habitants sur la période (les autres se situent entre 0 et 0,6 %).Source: http://www.languedocroussillon.fr/272-la-demographie.htmPerhaps a little too much fact for albf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 So why do they want to stay in a town, Norman? More jobs available? social life?Perhaps Parisians are more welcome in towns than in small rural communes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 @ NormanAnywhere that is over 30 mins from a major city is rural in my book. So that is pretty much the majority of France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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