Moving to France - introducing myself and my family

Introduce yourselves...
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Welcome Flavia :grinning:

I donā€™t have anything helpful to share, but I wanted to join in! :joy:

I live in 64 so canā€™t advise you on your areas of interest. Although weā€™ve been researching other areas to relocate to. Weā€™re not having much luck because this place is so damn gorgeous! Every time we look at a diffent area we say ā€œyeah but we have the mountains, yeah but we have the Basque coastā€. Itā€™s such an interesting part of France.

Anyway, Iā€™m also an English teacher. Will you be teaching in France?

I hope everything works out for you and your family :+1:

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I think Tory said she was there for a year.

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Yes, of course, it was you who said youā€™d been there a month. :roll_eyes:

Must be the heat getting to me, Darenā€™t even take the dogs for a walk today, apart from the forest there is no shade at all in the field. They are content on the terrasse at the moment. I think we will have to have an early start tomorrow instead. :grinning:

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My wife and I drove thousands of miles around the midi-Pyrenees looking for a place to settle. Beautiful countryside was in abundance - particularly when we were in AriƩge with views to die for. Nice towns however in our road trips were much harder to find.
Good luck with the move. Weā€™re hoping to do it soon. I think we have similar weather - weā€™re near the Welsh border.

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Itā€™s the format most documents like that are sent/downloaded in. Portable document format.

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Have you looked at Trie-sur-BaĆÆse ? I havenā€™t been there for many years, but for me it was near the top of my list of places to live. Quite a bit smaller than Saint-Gaudens but nearer to Tarbes and BagnĆ©res-de-Bigorre. Not so near the motorway if thatā€™s important to you, but getting to Toulouse is not difficult without the motorway and the N124 is mostly dual carriageway east of Auch. Didnā€™t end up around there mostly because itā€™s too far from the sea and that was important to OH.

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Very sensible. Weā€™re keeping our dog indoors too. Heā€™s sprawled out on the tiled floor in front of the Aircon unit. He lifts his head up every now and again to check weā€™re still there but thatā€™s it :grin:

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Hello Marie, and thank you for the warm welcome :slight_smile:

We really like 64 as well (drove around and visited houses for sale in Arzacq, Ortez, Salies- and Sauveterre de BĆ©arn, Pau and Oloron-ste-Marie. We had a wonderful stay in Sarrance a couple years ago.

I donā€™t have plans of teaching in France. At least not at this point - Iā€™ll see what my possibilities are.

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We actually have :slight_smile: Itā€™s still on our radar, if we canā€™t get the one weā€™re interested in right now .

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I went to the Pourcailhade there some years ago. It was a whole day devoted to pigs. There were pig races with genuine bookmakers. The food was superb (if you like pork). But the highlight was Le Championnat de France de Cri de Cochon (pig squealing contest) where contestants had to imitate a pig being born, being killed, giving birth etc. It was even shown on national TV.

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No no, I was there a whole year, lived with Danish families and went to high school. It was Gareth who had a month there!

Edited to add, sorry should have read on before replying!

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