well here in the middle of the country young people are getting on with doing things.
From making a success as a musician to setting up restaurants which are working well.
I think you are very wise to let them finish their education. My major school exams clashed with the family moving onā¦11+ and GCEās.
OK, I stayed behind with friends/relatives to take the exams, but it was still disruptive. After taking GCEās there seemed no point in going onto 6th Form in a new, strange schoolā¦ so I dropped outā¦ 
Nearly 22% of young people here are unemployed according to many statistics.
@barbara_deane1, at 25 time is ticking away and our son has yet to find any sort of real work partly because he only has a Bac on his CV. He wants to work in IT but has been told that he must have some sort of formal qualifications in the field so he will have to go back to studying AND fund the course himself. If he was in the UK heād find it much easier to find a job.
Most of the jobs I see on Pole Emploiās website require a diploma of some kind. Even jobs that you would consider relatively low skilled and paying only SMIC (minimum wage).
I did a cleaning job for 6 years (holiday villas) and in the 5th year of doing the job I was required to attend a course about safety when cleaning e.g wearing gloves!! bleach can be dangerous!! the correct way to use step ladders!!. It was absurd but now I have a little certificate that says I attended a safety course for les agents dāentretien to show any future employers.
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Hope that you have it framed on the wall Mandy 
I think there should be a course on how to open packaging, those āeasy tearā strips arenāt !
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France seems to like this sort of thing.
The guy that comes round to the village one day a week selling pizza from the back of a van has his āpizza schoolā certificate displayed so that it can be seen when ordering.
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I have it stuffed in a drawer where it belongs. One of the most bizarre days of my life 
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As it happens so many people do not know how about health and safety!
I have seen cleaners putting dirty water from cleaning floors in the kitchen sink
where they wash dishes and plates.
It may all seem like common sense but we have to prove that we have it!
It wasnāt about good cleaning habits it was about the safety of the cleaner. If I had taken all the advice I would be wearing protective rubber shoes, rubber gloves, a face mask, protective spectacles and a rubber pinny - just to mop the floor and clean the sink!
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why not!
Come on Barbara, a bit of common sense is needed here unless of course thatās how you (or your staff) dress to clean a sink.
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I will have a fair few certificates explaining that I have been on training courses to allow me to carry out specialist activities like using step ladders. Collecting them was a fairly regular activity in my workplace. The certificates were of little value to me but were gold dust for my employers as their backs were covered for any number of accidents that may happen on their premises.
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You do not think that Mandy may be exaggerating just a tiny bit!
Well I guess they donāt call her ātall tale Mandyā without reason.
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I promise you Barbara Iām not exaggerating. It was the most extraordinary course I have ever been on.
Iāve been called a few things in my life Tim but thatās a new one!! 
Stop it Mandy, you are making too many male hearts beat with this description . I am sure you know that there are some men who pay a fortune to have women dressed up like this, well Iām sure Iāve read about it somewhere
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Just remembered, it was on a DVD āBand of Goldā, there was a man there who paid a large sum to have a woman come to his room wearing black stockings, suspenders, high heels and Marigolds, she didnāt do any cleaning, or other things, just spoke about her rubber gloves( donāt think she had a certificate though)
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Oh you are naughty Ann
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Hi there, I am in agreement with Jane only if your children are ready for this move and not coming involuntarily to France.
When they arrive in France in summer times they will be able to work on cāamp sites etcā¦ my kids did this every year. They were all accepted with pleasure as they also spoke English.
They will have fun learning the french language. My niece from Sweden came to live with me for a year at 16 years old, she went to school and she was speaking better french than me within 6-8 months!! She wanted to learn and she loves still using this beautiful language.
Jane is so correct they will learn if they want to. And also be happy in France .
Good luck with whatever you decide