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Top Tips to Learn the Lingo

My dream of moving to a foreign country began at the ripe old age of 8. I spent most of my early years daydreaming of where I wanted to live, and France was often the top of my list. As I got older my daydreaming transformed into my vision and I travelled extensively looking for my dream home. It was not until I arrived on the cote d’Azur in 1992 that I really started to settle down. Of course, the dream life does not happen with a click of the fingers, the following two years were filled with a multitude…

Are You Tipping Your Toe Or Diving Head First?

Events, Residency, Work

As we step into 2024, I hope that you are taking time to ask yourself the right questions? Each end of year, the pressure is on each one of us to go out and plan our next year and make ‘New year’s resolutions’ from either a personal or business perspective, but do we ever really stop to ask the right questions before diving headfirst into a New Year? Do we ever really stop to look back and see what we have already achieved before once again striving for new goals? Achievement comes in all shapes and sizes, there is no…

LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE in France

Residency, Visas

As I look at social media and see everyone ‘living their best life’ doing lots of activities, holidays and posting about living their best life and their dream lives, and I wonder what that means to different people? Social media paints a picture that is often false and puts pressure on us all to do more, do bigger, do better, do something. What if living your dream life is doing ‘nothing’? Doing ‘nothing’ is an acquired art. We need to remember how to spend time with ourselves doing nothing, especially women. It has been my motto for over 11 years now, ever since…

CFE Tax : All the questions answered

Residency, Tax

We are coming to that end of year. We’ve just made it through the taxe d’habitation and the taxe fonciere and its the run up to Christmas. We just think we are done with tax for this year and then ….. CFE tax comes along. So what is this tax and are you liable?

Why January and February are the best months of the year

Healthcare, Residency, Work

January is renowned for being a month of new beginnings, fresh starts and wiping the slate clean. A month of taking our desires and putting them to the forefront. It’s a month of let’s get on with this and make it a better, bigger, more successful, healthier than last year, year! Such pressure for everyone and I fight against every year.

Moving to France : How big is your dream?

Residency, Visas

They say Life begins at the end of your comfort zone, right? So showing up in Antibes – a place we had visited a handful of times – in January 2018 with our three children under 6, having sold our 4 bedroom house in the UK, and with no fixed plan except a 2 month Airbnb booking, that must really be living! Either that, or it was phenomenally gutsy but stupid.

BREXIT – Preparing your footpath for a no deal

Residency, Visas, Work

On the final run up to Brexit date on 29th March, one cannot help but being affected by the ongoing Brexit crisis and the impact it has had and is continuing to have on everyone’s lives. Since the vote in June 2016, the negotiations have been under way but just how do you prepare for Brexit if you are living in France?