tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post3933811577576281599..comments2023-06-11T11:29:40.315+02:00Comments on Zut alors!: Why?Tommohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08719434939540551535noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-74582009097730837392010-07-25T11:33:47.623+02:002010-07-25T11:33:47.623+02:00Thanks Jean. Some interesting comments there. I we...Thanks Jean. Some interesting comments there. I well remember our two week holidays at our French holiday home (a tiny, dilapidated, old peasant's cottage) about a decade ago and dreading returning to England. That's when I knew I had to live in France full time. I'd literally reached the point of no return.Tommohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08719434939540551535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-62195010462883981922010-07-24T18:28:54.548+02:002010-07-24T18:28:54.548+02:00What a well-written post. It also sums up the way...What a well-written post. It also sums up the way we feel about our little patch of France. It's just a holiday home at present but we're so looking forward to the day it will be permanent.<br />Our reasons for being disgruntled with the UK are the same as yours; bad driving, bad manners, the evaporation of our pensions and the feeling of being ripped off by the government to support a welfare state that has grown out of all proportion.<br />Rubbish in the hedgerows of our beautiful countryside, feeling unsafe walking my own street after dark, nothing on the telly and to top it all, crummy weather.<br />Every time we spend a holiday in France I leave a little bit of my heart there.<br />I have seen a few "tell it like it is" blogs, claiming life in France is not all roses either. I suggest the authors try living in our place in the UK for a while. Both our homes are in rural areas but in France I feel safer and more relaxed. And although I keep telling myself it's just because we're on holiday, as time goes by I'm not sure that it is. We have met several Brits and other foreigners who now live in the area permanently and they seem to love it, warts and all.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-37004604604610249242010-07-05T18:11:31.766+02:002010-07-05T18:11:31.766+02:00Indeed Vera. Brings to mind a certain well-known p...Indeed Vera. Brings to mind a certain well-known phrase: one instinctively knows when something is right.Tommohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08719434939540551535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-8224716803331334562010-07-05T16:42:49.572+02:002010-07-05T16:42:49.572+02:00What a lovely post. I find it hard to explain the ...What a lovely post. I find it hard to explain the 'why' as well. For us, it was, quite simply, the right thing to do. But explaining that to others makes us sound oddballs. Perhaps we are. We have the love of this place in our hearts like you do with your bit of France, and I am endlessly saying to the French people in my scrappy French, that their life style is priceless in comparison to the UK. Good blog, and made me think about the 'why', which is sometimes forgotten in the business of our day to day life.Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13235143664894609891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-33194177223207888192010-07-05T15:04:20.689+02:002010-07-05T15:04:20.689+02:00Fly in web - Not sure if you mean English or Frenc...Fly in web - Not sure if you mean English or French youngsters. I presume you mean French. Yes, I understand there are currently many French youngsters working in London. I think there are far more casual labour jobs there (such as waitressing etc.) than in Paris. The French labour laws and tax systems discourage the hiring of casual staff so there are less job vacancies, so I understand from the odd newspaper article. But I gather Sarko's trying to change things.Tommohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08719434939540551535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-89572047064857478892010-07-05T14:56:01.453+02:002010-07-05T14:56:01.453+02:00Yes indeed Diane. Most of locals would probably li...Yes indeed Diane. Most of locals would probably like to visit England, but not move there. No way.Tommohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08719434939540551535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-3927637435676722362010-07-05T14:51:47.007+02:002010-07-05T14:51:47.007+02:00Young people who can see no future out in the stic...Young people who can see no future out in the sticks dream of going to London...interestingly enough, not Paris.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-46971643592938446912010-07-05T14:14:49.951+02:002010-07-05T14:14:49.951+02:00It makes a whole heap of sense to me as well. The...It makes a whole heap of sense to me as well. The French don't seem to see it as we do. Never the less, ask them if they have ever had thoughts of moving to England..... they have too much sense to move there. DianeDianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14782670749466305626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-47725280792306359762010-07-05T13:54:48.723+02:002010-07-05T13:54:48.723+02:00Absolutely, Jon. Entirely agree.Absolutely, Jon. Entirely agree.Tommohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08719434939540551535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6084273967488814558.post-19507010401762388052010-07-05T13:49:49.372+02:002010-07-05T13:49:49.372+02:00I avoid the "why?" questions for the mos...I avoid the "why?" questions for the most part. The answer is too complicated and in any case I'm a little hazy about the details myself. And they change depending on my mood on the day.<br /><br />Still, pleased to be here, no interest in being anywhere else, so "why" seems a bit pointless.Jonhttp://www.vendeeblog.netnoreply@blogger.com