is at the top of the the the, the new lot take off the phone. these regions of france are 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 is there uh, drums. the union jack is gradually finding a home in south western france. but the process of settling in is not without hurdles. the a nicholas and graham parker. she's an accountant, he's a handyman. they move to france in 2022. they're picturesque country house, built in $1780.00 both buildings and a converted holiday flat and tend to rent out to visitors. the graham parker's lifelong 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 used for a 4 bedroom. so hence the 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 bear with 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 from the have we french right? because of the minute the we all seem to come and process jobs. we ask them to come and look at jobs that they just don't have a don't turn up, or they turn up and they never return. we've acosta. you know, price. 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 euro. it's a huge burn house that graham 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 sounds that we just don't have any of the dish so that's, that's really difficult. ready learning french takes up several hours of her day

because we arrive dumpster breaks, it, you have to be able to speak a word level french in order to keep your visa. so if you go with a visa, you have to take a test, which is basically this, this us and it sort something in the back. and if you file the 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 how to get to the lesson. i think 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 as soon as since break say, obviously you've got the british coming out of a weekday monday, and by now 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 divides come. 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 at a state agency. there is a price for raging during the pandemic, many people from francis cities also re discovered the terms of the countryside.

steve and helen robin serve 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 but by not truthful. green is we cold and england smoke and the same with the straight key. these are the sort of thing you'd have in a bike and some weights. english people. another shot 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 there 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 speak in a french suit to be fluent in front to get by, but we're not fluent if it's easier in other sites. uh that was more leeway that were moving in the providing you could prove to them that you could support yourself and you were going to expedite dependent everything. they welcomed you because he's had around the 28th. okay. we're really, really poor areas and everything, and it's the british people that came and built houses and did them up and everything and then started put in blogs back 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 shelves are completely surrounded by english. people sound like it. others are less keen on subjects or a me is like now. he was up on the stuff about the the new amy is a special case. so almost beside the many wealthy brits have settled in and around a may nickel and gram parker live just 20 minutes away by car. they move to france because they wanted a fresh start. but there were other reasons to coming from england. we said it's an easy and travel with this. you know, you got struck sky, known everywhere. now we have just the, you know, you got the notice he strikes go, know the health system of the he's meant to be file file, but so you use that the ring,

the don't to is you could ring them monday morning and so the 830 i thought you could get an appointment. where's either here you could you, let's follow the know you can ring up. so you can just turn in but then get the problem. apparently, the dentist you can just draw it 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. clicks a key one kings went to keys. please.

nicholas father died 5 years ago. she's been looking after her mother ever since the day. that's wanting to have a nice the waiting for the friends home. no legal paperwork we need to because we run the shade. you have to purchase the same with different government departments and you have to register for the tax. but everything just seems to do you look online to see what you need to send don't for something. so you copy, oh, send the old and see most likely comes back with this is me saying,

well that's me saying. so then you have to start whatever game and they say, copy everything at least 3 times. it just is it's very slow. oh, 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 in the region. john sebastian lab montagnier is prefect, docked on you. in the wake of breakfasted, his staff suddenly had issued 9000 residents permits because the british nationals who were living here were no longer you citizens. a 4 fold increase in don't a longer. so we have to develop a procedure that didn't penalize them too much. and that's simplified the process as much as possible. not sure, of course, this didn't exist before breaks it, any of it, but the, 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 franny, their teacher is in england spending shall we say about before, and then for an m, as nasal n, v n n e sign is when are you ready? oh, oh, oh, show show, show celestial la complete lead. told the same yeah. oh, don't believe that 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 by consent, which is the street in which is due

by sandwiches that one well was 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. or we don't trade for whole. yeah. we spent what 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 live friends because he's dyslexic, and he is just no way he can. he can do it by the time, but he will never be fluent and he'd never be out of pocket. he often finds himself in uncomfortable situations. one of my main ones was i've waiting teen to, to be able to such and such. and i stood next to the materials i've opened, which just a couple of i knew was about to and by seed pointing to meet the driver. and i told them i wanted 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 and that to 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 going to show you his uh thing. i haven't bear with it yet . so he said, here's what i'm going to show you was the window load up? i think you got a some dental appointment in the system 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 here we are 3 sauce. still not finished all the finances, which you'd come back yesterday to paint the maintenance fellow 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

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 is actually been really easy. he's made it really easy. oh, i got to get you. okay. yes. 50 percent of his customers says the salesman, are the many brits who live in the region these are the ones that they're slow to learn frenchie, it's not easy. like if they had more or less of the don't go faster me. doesn't faith in seal or community man. that's why we have to speak english. otherwise, we wouldn't sell any windows. you know, the problem is that the

just after 11, steve and helen's painters finally show up in the middle the damp spots are finally going to be dealt with. the painter admits the language barrier. there is a problem with the local press work say take look, good lords to do. it's just 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. yeah. good. thank you very nice. yvonne calls hawkins is a financial consultant. she helps foreigners navigate the french bureaucracy. we were, we were in limbo and we went into the to see them. ok. 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 tell me that uh for 2023, renting out there she did phones is from a fiscal point of view from a legal point of view. something quite special. and i went on, you

a 1st french what the, what would be important for you that is blue cross show literally furnished rental, the much needed introduction to french tax. and tenancy 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. that's oh, i see the baby's hard story to me was this whole reading frames. i didn't say anything. it was really a kind of a michael, michael bride, somebody because i, i called so we did that. so very put a message to the massive while the scene people posted on site for the site and ice . i went into it more french chase 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 for ones use visa and the renewal, but very likely be for now this year. okay. the people in some situations a they go immediately full, 3 full. yes. visa us. then there is the question of the existing. okay. so things are a little bit more complicated assessment as what you, what you might hear, but i've, i've been a mess if, believe room i like that when people come to england, i 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 the then it's high. so you agree with that, but you will, i will pick it up and we will get there. so i set did context decoration, which is quite a bit. we said couple is happy to spend some money on the hand holder for just under confidence that once nickel a passes the language test, things will get easier. later that

afternoon, the french neighbor category and moving a drops by joseph his concept set to him here is this one must be really clean. and 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 riding and french lessons sufficient for the day i'm going out with my whole study cuz equity is always one to add holes level based. 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 of the stuff in

friendships and masks so much 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 the left. what the english, the wrong way. your office is because uh, the valley of the was 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 back into the cafe till the pay is almost entirely british. but she says

3 quarters of her customers are ex pats called to the family and that positive thoughts. everyone knows everyone here. the wrong decision was made moving trucks even with all the options hours to fall out, that everything outside that notarized, the nickel and graham are still hard at work. nicolo works 5 hours a day and the cars graham still has to get this 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 i'm

living the dream i really am. i loves from a long way really. you know, how many people go? well, i go the

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