clearly have the solutions, the future this 77 percent every weekend on the w. the the don't you lot take off from these regions of france or steep tradition and history. but they're changing as a growing number of brits move in. drawn by the beauty and the lower cost of living, a packet comes okay, comes on as well. so yeah, guys have a good weekend just by the new arrivals are buying up and renovating properties. but cultures often clash, for example, when it comes to lunch breaks, just don't get that, but 12 o'clock, everything is stop. literally desktop doesn't matter what they're doing,

they'll stuff and then they'll till 2 o'clock and the customer excludes their off drugs. the union jack is gradually finding a home, and so the western france. but the process of settling in is not without hurdles. the nicholas and graham parker, she's an accountant, he's a handyman. they move to france in 2022. their picturesque country house built in $1780.00 both buildings and a converted holiday flat and tend to rent out to visitors. the gram parker's life long dream. he and his wife left norfolk for a fresh start after 38 stressful years working in england. you

know, once a slower pace of life, that was the plan. in reality, he's working as hard as ever there sheet to for holiday flat needs, another bedroom currently and then we have 3, and the most inquires or things be getting these for a 4 bedroom. so hence, they're new, so it's going to be a bedroom. we don't sweet and access out straight out to the co and i've got to start for a month to build it before i start coming that's, that's a lot of pressure. the couple needs to start re keeping the costs the renovation. soon. the most of the holiday flat is ready to welcome guests,

but which authorities do the parkers have to register their business with and what taxes will they have to pay? they still have a lot of unanswered questions, but 1st, they need to finish the renovations. graham is still getting used to the fact that he pretty much has to do everything himself. a problem the have we french right, because of the minute is we all seem to come and process jobs. we ask them to come and look at you of that. they just don't turn up or they turn up and they never return wave acosta. you know, pro us, um, we did want to bring in french that you cool the, we're just really struggling the minute to get them to do and come and do any work the, the couple have 20 heck,

there's gram wants the new pool to be ready by summer he and nicholas sold their home in the east of england for 1800000 pounds. that's over 2000000. europe's a huge burn house. the gram had lovingly converted over the years. now that their children are grown up, they decided to invest in a new home in france, nicolo practices, french every day, twice a week she attends a language school in the neighboring village. the most difficult thing is the ex n o c k is spinning dish. there's lots of, it sounds that we just don't have any of these. so that that's really difficult. learning french takes up several hours of her day. because we run, i've dumped it breaks it. you have to be able to speak a,

what level french in order to keep your visa. so if you go with a visa, you have to take a test which is basically the split and it, so some put in the back. you file to test, depending on how badly you file the test. they give you between 20600 hours of free french lessons. but they can be any way. and they can be any times. and some people have to drive like an hour and a half to get to the lesson. i think sophie, this is the last 10 months in france have been far more stressful than they expected. they retail, it would divide between the british and the french. the, you know,

there is some something gotten on the, i think i a serious things brakes a, obviously you've got the british coming out as a weekday and monday. and boy, you know, these old houses and, and run of i, in the, a lot of the french couldn't the phone were useful and nothing. that's where the device come to their new home cost, $1200000.00 euro. so they can bridge the 1st year with their savings these days. the region is so full of brits, it's known as the one year shire. many of its historical buildings and houses are for sale. the demand is growing, and the state agent say there's a price for raging. during the pandemic, many people from francis cities also rediscovered the terms of the countryside. the steve and

helen robins are both the butchers to originally come from near oxford. they've been in france for more than 8 years. every thursday they set up their market stall in the town of a may. after several decades as employees, stephen helen have set up their own small business here, selling traditional british meat products to to, to best buy. not true for green is a cold and england smoke and the same industry key. these are the sort of thing you'd have to buy concerned with english people. and the show is that for breakfast with aig, some saucy in spring 2015. a couple saw a tv report about the south west of france. they pack their bags headed their on holiday and promptly bought a house. so it does, it really did otherwise. i don't think we would do it now,

cuz we don't speaking of french to be fluent in front to get by but we're not fluent if it's easier, you know, size. uh that was more leeway that were moving and the providing you could prove to them that you could support yourself and you were going to expedite dependent everything. they welcome true because he's had around the 28th i would really, really poor areas and everything. and it's the british people that came and brought the houses and did them up and everything. and then stuff put in blogs, fucked into these villages. the majority of locals are elderly. there's been an exodus of young people up to the cities. how did they feel about all the brits who made the area their home, the full mom menu says he gets on well with them. but he speaks english and like many other french people,

there are english shops and english here dresser in lots of shelter, completely surrounded by english. people sound like it. others are less keen on suggest that so a me is like now he was of the stuff that i'd be the new amy is a special case. so almost with so many wealthy brits have settled in and around a may nickel and graham parker lived just 20 minutes away by car. they moved to france because they wanted a fresh start. but there were other reasons to coming from england. we see that and the easy and travel with this. you know, you got struck sky, known everywhere. now they've just the, you know, you got the notice you struck sky. they know the health system of the he's meant to be fall fall. but so if you use that the reading, the don't to is you could ring the monday morning and the 830,

i thought you could get an appointment where it's either here you could use this policy now you can ring up so you can just turn enough in but then get the pump. apparently the dentist you can just draw up to get you take down and draw it back on the good. well, you couldn't even get a dentist in the night. the nicholas strolling through town with her mother, patricia. she lives with them in the house next door to say, hello key. do you want to go one or 2 keys please?

nicholas father died 5 years ago. she's been looking after her mother ever since the day. this one, you need to have a nice the waiting for the friends homes, legal types of what we need to because we run the day. you have to register you saying with different government departments and you have to register for the tax. but everything just seems to you look online to see what you need to send don't for something. so you copy, oh, send the old site. it comes back with this is me saying, well that's me saying. so then you have to start over again and they say,

copy everything at least 3 times. it just is, it's very slow. the facebook groups for british x pads are full of such stories, low application procedures, complicated regulations and months of waiting for paper work. they blamed the prefecture the states representatives and the regents. john sebastian law montagnier is pre packed up docked on the in the wake of breakfasted, his staff suddenly had issued 9000 residents permits because the british nationals who were living here were no longer use citizens of 4 fold increase in georgia also . so we had to develop a procedure that didn't penalize them too much, and that's simplified the process as much as possible. now, of course, this didn't exist before breaks it. uh, you have a bunch of the amount shopped in p nickel, a parker is about to start an online french class for any

new so do you remember what the nasal file sound is? so when the class is practicing pronunciation for ending their teacher is in england, spending shall we say about before and n for an m is nasal n b n m e site is when are you ready? oh oh oh, show show. show a live show. la complete lead told the same yeah. oh, don't believe the the the next morning steve and helen robins are on their way to their butcher shop. right next to their home. after around 40 years says employees,

steve and his wife have set up their own business here, selling a little bit and enjoying life due to their savings. they don't need to work too hard. after all, they did that already. for decades in england. tomorrow is market day and they need to prepare their supplier as a neighboring pig farm. they make every things the british law according to traditional english butchery. the fact vacant for a classic english breakfast is always popular. that is due by a friend of which is nice. i do the street in which is due by sandwiches that one

well, as in the other english people, a growing number of french people are also discovering their products. they say once packaged, everything goes straight into cold storage. the couple suffered a major set back in july 2020, out of the blue shirt of glass and the dry grass started a fire in the butcher shop, a little frayed for a whole year. we spent all our savings to live for that. yeah. and buying mean you equipment because we didn't have enough money with the insurance, so we have to use all sizes for that. graham parker needs doors and windows for the holiday flats. 4th, bedroom, nicolai's going with them. because graham doesn't speak french as a child, he struggled in school,

he called la french because he's dyslexic, and he is just no way he can. he can do it will pick you up by the time. but he will never be fluent and he'd never be in a box test. he often finds himself in uncomfortable situations. one of my main ones was i've waiting to, to be able dispatch and, and i stood next to the materials of them and which just a couple of bundles about to and, but still pointing to the drive to. and i told them i want to do both of those back to and then the guy just looked at me and said no, no. so i just so that's good. um i just we need a uh window, jeanetta fresh, double seal and a no more just and it will pine entrance though. okay. yeah. what was the

dimensions uh, i can do any can i was gonna show you here's the thing i haven't bear with it yet. so he said, here's what i mean, i'm going to show you the window and blow it up. i think i'm opening systems to open place. it's almost 10 o'clock, and predictably, the painters haven't arrived. the ceilings in the main house are still stained from the water used to put out the fire firefighters had to drench the entire roof. so the 3 sauce still not finished. all the finances, which you'd come back yesterday to paint the maintenance. so in the house and then continually through the house. but i never turned up. uh, apparently they had an emergency. so then they are supposed to be here today, the tonight as well. so

lovely. thank you. graham has managed to get everything he needs i'm slowly picking up some of the woods um, but this has actually been really easy. who's made it really easy? oh, it got to get you. okay. yes. a 50 percent of his customers says the salesman, or the many brits who live in the region, these are the ones that they're slow to learn french. it's not easy. like if they had more or less of them didn't go faster, me does. and faith in similar to that, to me, that's why we have to speak english. otherwise, we wouldn't sell any windows, you know? and the problem is that the

just after 11, steve and helen's painters finally show up you know you know, the damp spots are finally point to be dealt with. the painter admits the language barrier is a problem with the local press. so say like say, think look, good lords to do, it's just a very complicated making yourself understood of explaining that they need to clear everything away that it can take time. so there might be a delay, but we have so much work and the rule is a civic, so they don't really understand. we're doing the home phone with

the nice to meet you ebony solutions. good. yes. good. thank you very nice. yvonne calls hockman is a financial consultant. she helps foreigners navigate the french bureaucracy. we were, we were nearby. yes. we went into the season. okay. yes. um we got talking to somebody and he said, he said, oh, you need to add homes. uh, i recommend to, oh the you telling me that uh for 2023 renting outer sheet and phones is from a fiscal point of view from a legal point of view. something quite special. and i went on, you know, the 1st french what the, what would be important for you, that is, lucas,

you literally furnished rental. the much needed introduction to french tax and tendency law involves a lot of technical terms and exemptions. graham, however, mainly wants to know whether he'll have to take the dreaded language test. today. as you have a visa, there is no obligation to french lessons. oh i see to be as har, story to me with a soul that infringed learning. certainly saying it was really a couldn't be mindful of michael bright, somebody because i, i called so we did that. so very put a message to the massive why the same people probably still on facebook saying i, so i went and did my french test and i've been given 600 compulsory i was. so what that is, i mean you to today, you go for, you'll have gone full ones,

use visa and the renewal, but very likely be for now this year. ok. the people in some situations a they go immediately. false. we for yes, visa us. then there is the question of making the existing, okay? so as things are a little bit more complicated, assessment is what you, what you might hear. but i've, i've been a mess if, believe room, i lost that when people come to england, no should learn english. so watch it when i come to proud, so i should learn french and that's the end of it. yes. to that then it's high. so i agree with that, but you will pick it up. it will really get there. so i said did context decoration, which is quite a that we, a couple is happy to spend some money on the hand holder and their confidence that once nickel a passes the language tests, things will get easier. later that afternoon, the french neighbor catch. okay, moving

a drops by close of his consent to home here. this is one of them has been really clean just after nickel and gram moved in cat doesn't knocked on their door and asked if she could let her horses graze on their grounds. in return, she suggested giving nicholas writing and french lessons sufficient for the day i'm going out with my whole study cuz i could see. c it was always fun to add holes level base, so it's a perfect solution for us because we get to have the whole series that responsibility. that's great. and i get to then speak french. so in french, these and mass look mass because he's picking french of course that's

what you say when both sides are up for it. the english french relationship can work when you want to go on the right to, to really of the, let's say what the english, the wrong way. your office is because uh, the valley of the what, what gosh, come to the the town of do a lot. late afternoon by gina is serving her regulars. the steve and helen meet up with their english friends here every friday. just like they used to in the past, back in the u. k. from time to time, steve self vacant, the cafe de pay is almost entirely british. but she says 3 quarters of her customers are ex pats called to the family and that positive boss

everyone knows everyone here. the wrong decision was made moving across the room with all the ups and downs to fall out. that everything else on the nickel and graham are still hard at work. nicolo works 5 hours a day in the garden. graham still has to get the sheet ready before the 1st guests arrive in 3 weeks. a call and see any reason why i would want to go back to the guy really not throwing the sunshine the living, the dream i really am. i loves from all the way it really, you know,

how many people go for all the

respect is own about what can waive and texting nature. that's why sandra, respecting nature, studying aids, i think it's about being up to date with karen tardy is technologies. i'm trying to eat co way of life, the environment magazine, ego advocate in 30 minutes on d. w. thank welcome to a place that gives a lot of things right. copenhagen's bustling bicycle friendly city is known for his

design. in architecture. the data is capital might give us a glimpse of the urban future. copenhagen hits green, sustainable in 75 minutes on d w, the one you're interested in, today's my parish going to be much of my family. what cute was this age drive to? i'm on a journey to find out about the russo the 19 are to put you on the side produce the to see through under my name is some way to shimmer. i'm a feeling mix sweet shaving history documentary stuff. april 6th on dw, the,

the

the, this is the, the news coming to lie from berlin, a suspect to just really airstrikes hit 2 rooms, diplomatic camps compound in damascus. officials and syria confirmed there have been deaths and injuries arouse revolutionary guards, says the top general is a most the day. meanwhile, in gaza and other suspect, it is really air strike kills international aid workers. they had been working for world central kitchen, providing badly needed food for the people of gossip is really is calling the incident tragic and says it's investigating. also coming up, india implements a controversial new citizenship law just weeks ahead of us national elections. we find out.