but I guess your residence in France is your primary residence, no?
As for HSBC, I’ve been looking further into your suggestion.
There’s a lot of faffing about to be honest and the are are aspects which are unachievable… in particular -
Most UK residents in France cannot produce a current National identity card - only a residents permit (CdS) and this condition (to produce an ID card) appears to apply to those with nationality…
My reference to this is here from the HSBC website itself. I doubt many people would even bother to be honest, I certainly wouldn’t… life is too short and why jump through these hoops in the first place when in reality, it is so unnecessary.