Any Regrets / What Would You Do Differently ?

[timc17]

This question is aimed at those already living in France.

Do you have any regrets about moving and if you had the chance to do it again what would you do differently?

 

tim17

[Coco]

No to the first part of the question and only that I'd like to have done it ten years earlier, to part two!!!

Seriously, I think the only thing I might have done is buy a property a little closer to a village.  We are half a kilometre from the next nearest house, 1km from the bulk of the properties in the village and 3.5kms to the nearest village with any kind of shop.  HOWEVER, as 99% of all visitors to our B&B remark on the lovely location, perhaps we wouldn't get so many referrals or repeat business if we were in a village.

[Iceni]

I am with Coco about doing it 10 years earlier but we would not have been able to do it then.

I like our remote location but we do know we will have to move nearer to a village with shops at some time.

I am really pleased that I don't have to go through the rest of my life with regrets that I did not give it a go.

[Tag]

Would have bought in 72/74 when you could have got a whole hilltop village for nowt, and when there were very few Brits about. By Brits I mean those who cant be bothered to integrate and who behave like the worst of colonials I knew when I was a kid.

[SaligoBay]

I'd wait till I'd retired before I moved to France.

 

[ChezShells]

No regrets either.

Wouldn't be worried by not using an agent next time when buying.

Integrating, I didnt do much of that where we lived in the UK so I'm not changing to suit others, felt a bit of an outsider where we lived after moving there from 4 miles away!! but I could get good references from our immediate neighbours if needed

We made a good move.

 

Lee