Offering the best quality of life in Europe, France is the perfect place for retirees.
Moving here takes an adjustment to a much slower pace of life. The French value quality time with family members or friends, sharing interesting conversations over an espresso or a glass of wine, any time of the day.
There are vibrant expat communities in many parts of France, including Pau, Bordeaux, and Saint-Chinian to name a few. These communities are welcoming and make the transition to the other side of the world much less daunting.
So, should you retire to France? Let’s find out!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
0:14 Is France as Good as You Think?
0:51 Why Should You Consider Moving to France?
2:15 Pros of France
3:21 Cons of France
4:43 Culture Shocks
7:46What Life in France is Like
10:06 The Cost of Living in France
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The taxes, tax residency rules and the crazy laws around passing on property to your spouse or children should enough to scare many people away. Nice place to visit though.
Many clichés on France in such a short videos.
Why are you dressed in concentration camp pyjamas? You FAIL. Delete and try again.
You can do rather well in much of France if you only really know how to speak English as long as you show real effort to try to speak French with the locals.
Trying goes a VERY long way in France.
If you on the other hand are arrogant and show no intention to try to speak French and expect them to speak English with you, you will very quickly experience that the French person is totally clueless about English.
But if you try your best to use as much French as possible, it is amazing how many of them that suddenly have taken a crash course in English and speak it rather well.
I totally prefer the French countryside over the cities and bigger towns and I totally LOVE Provence.
On top of being a very beautiful area, are the locals in Provence very nice and friendly as well if you avoid the tourist hot spots.
They tend to be rather fed up with foreigners at the end of the tourist season in those tourist hot spots, but they are still much better than many of the locals in the tourist hot spots in southern Spain.
There are many other very nice countryside areas in France and all of them have their own charm.
So do most cities and larger towns if you like that life better, but that is not for me.
Much of the countryside can also be VERY affordable to live in if you mostly or only buy local food products.
You can rent or even buy a cottage or a house in or close to a smaller town for a VERY affordable price.
I don't live in France at the moment as I am a Norwegian and live in Norway at this moment, but I travel a lot and have lived in many countries for a few months at the time and France is one of the countries I have lived in multiple times.
I could also recommend many other countries in Europe to live in, but that would not fit the theme of this video as this is focused on France only.