I think that depends on where you live in the uk friend has just taken his house off the market after almost 2 years gradually dropping in price during those years until enough was enough and he couldnt drop it anymore, the guy who did our move three years ago had a son who had bought an identical house to ours 60 miles further south on the edge of Birmingham and paid £100k more for it, ours was on the market for 12 months and dropped to min price
Erm I have to say - yes prices of everything are nuts in UK - they are way lower (apart from property and wine that is!!)
haha...too late I fear....just read some of the comments...!
Haroon...delighted you love your country.....I find it expensive....I do complain...quite rightly if I am not happy with wherever I live....and do it in the UK when something isnt right. Oh...and as for going home.....I would love to....(read the thread...selling your house) sadly its not just overpriced drugs in France Ive noticed....its the very flat property market I am not delighted with..... Ive come across people (French and English...and other nationalities) all desperate to sell...and not a lot happening...one SFN friend has had a house on the market for nearly 7 years....now that doesnt happen in the UK!
I am French, and I am not in Fiji. I am in Florida currently, where drug prices are from 3 to 10 times more expensive. All I am hearing here is a lot of people crying over prices in France. I go to London often, as I was born there, and the prices of everything there is nuts compared to France.There is a reason you moved to France. Incidentally, I am moving back permanently to France in 3 weeks. Yes, France is the Centre of the Universe, and the greatest country on Planet Earth. Count your blessings you live here. If you don't like how things are in France, go back home !
I avoid Pharmacies in France. Firstly I object to any body that demands exclusivity which they do in France. Thus they can charge what they like, certainly for any drugs...and their creams etc are exhorbitant. In the UK prices are low as supermarkets can sell items...and places like Boots have to try and compete...the lack of competition in France depresses me....as does the acceptance of the public that this is the way it is....and no attempt to improve things. I feel sorry for unexpecting holiday makers who arrive with a headache on a Sunday and cant buy paracetamol or anything useful...we see them regularly looking for such things in the supermarkets on Sundays.
Further to this, I was in the US some years ago when I ran out of Ventoline inhaler and had lost my French prescription. I ordered online through 'Canadian Pharmacy' and received two back pretty quickly - no hassle, except they were NOT the same although the packaging was!! Since then I've discovered that many online pharmaceuticals can be counterfeit or just plain dangerous, as they don't do what the real McCoy does - caution is therefore advised! (Apart from the fact they keep calling me to sell online Viagra !!)
Good advice :)
Leave it - it's completely off the subject!
I was referring to Haroon-Pascal's comment.
Hi Glen,
Which pet website do you use as I can't seem to get any of them to deliver to France?
Thanks
Catherina
You may want to take a look at www.pharmacy2u.co.uk they deliver to France and the prices are reasonable. My last order arrived in 5 days.
Please read the post properly before firing off such inane comments.
There's always one ....
I am not, just pointing out the differences, and fully appreciate the excellent health care France offers me and my family.
My original point highlighted the huge difference in price with on line pharmacies and local ones.
Out of choice I would prefer to "shop local" but some of the prices are far too expensive. Neither are our local pharmacists willing to offer generic over the counter meds, when we are expected, as in the UK to have a generic equivalent for something prescribed - something I have no problem with, if you took the time to read all my posts.
It has nothing to do with living in France - it is do with pricing policies and structures - something I think we all do from time to time?
And yet you live in the greatest country in the world, France. So stop your whinging.
Hi Jo - I never have any problem in obtaining generic products and when I don't ask for them, they are often suggested by the Pharmacies I use in Nice ....?
Hahahahaha - Brilliant!
A Ventoline inhaler costs €5.95 from just about any pharmacie!!
for Australians, the prices for the medicaments in pharmacies in France are rediculously cheap! I pay approximately triple the price for children's panadol in Australia than here. Asperin is just a couple of euros, amazing!
Seven years ago when I first come over I ran out of one of my asthma inhalers and bought it over the counter with my card. Never looked at the price. When I got home I found I'd paid 59.95 euros. I went back and asked if it had been a mistake. It wasn't so I asked them to take it back and they did.
My Pharmacy staff are friendly and very helpful, and they know I will always accept a generic product when available.