So how many members on the forum have actually come across anti Brit feelings or graffiti in their area and where about.
After 40 odd years staying and travelling all over France I haven’t had that misfortune.
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Do you live here? Staying and travelling compared with living are completely different
No not really and yes I do live here 
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Then I can only think you are fortunate or live in a region without that problem or you nake every effort to integrate. Good for you.
The reason I was asking the question is to actually find out if it is localised to your area or widespread throughout France.
In 40 odd years visiting many friends throughout France you would think I would have either have seen or experienced it myself or heard from people who had come across it, so it will interesting to see if anyone else on here has come across it.
Agreed. But a question on here with so many of us not only pro France but who can speak French is unlikely to give a real view?
As an example for ourselves our French neighbours’ experience! That was pure anti Brit but unless you have French neighbours with whom you could speak youwould never know
Not sure any question would capture that. However a quick straw poll would do no harm that is for sure although suspect biased rests given us all on here
For ourselves personally we have only met anti foreigner / Brit feeling twice since 1998. However have defo heard and seen it! Never personal against us except once. More against Brits in general
Maybe another good question would be about being able to speak French and how that affects life?
I’ve never seen any graffiti here in the south of 86…
I think there is a difference going on. Artists, graffitti artistic or otherwise. Then “tag”
I’ve been here 4 years and haven’t come across any. In fact, the most anti-Brit sentiment that I’ve encountered has been from other Brits.
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How many speak french with fluency and live here and use only french artisans and suppliers? Might be more appropriate? Just a thought?
That is interesting. Why would they feel that?
We have wonderful graffiti round here (47) The local town in summer invites professional graffiti artists to paint all the blank walls with help from the local kids. A bit of NF graffiti as we get near elections and the occasional ill-done-by farmer - but nothing against the Brits.
I had a neighbour yell at me “Vive Marine Le Pen” some years back but we were in the middle of a filthy row and it finished with me taking round a plant to apologise and the kids saying he should invite us round.
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Do you live here @brian
As I said this is not graffitti. It is tags
Sorry just gotthe gist of your post!!!
What an interesting question. I think most of us who have been on SF have a pretty good idea who of us live here permanently.
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I am not asking who lives here permanently but opinion on integration
Your original assertion was about anti British feeling and how the British are freeloading the system and the bad feeling you experienced from the French about it, hence why I have asked if it has been experienced by any one else.
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The fascinating thing about the speaking English in shops comment is that I’m finding more and more that people actually want to speak English. The better I (hopefully) get in French, and the less I use English outside of the home, the more people at tills actually seem to speak to me in English, presumably because of my accent, despite me only speaking to them in French. In the last week two people, a younger guy in Leroy Merlin, and a middle aged lady in the Leclerc petrol cabine both replied in English. I’m not going to secondguess their motive but both were smiley happy people while doing so and both seemed to be pleased and almost proud to show their skills, just as most of us are I imagine when we’re nervous or concerned about a conversation in French that we get through successfully. Again, I don’t want to impose a motive on them, but I just continued to speak French and let them know that I appreciated their efforts and got on my way. Perhaps they both seethed after I left about having to speak English to a rude arrogant Brit, but from my reading of the situation I doubt it, they seemed to want to.
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No, I live here…
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