where it will be your p and security basically depends to 90 percent on the us out to the hotel commentary dots, april 4th on dw, the the, the new lot take off the phone. these regions of france are steep, tradition and history. but they're changing as a growing number of brits move in, drawn by the beauty and the lower cost of living at all. okay. comes on as well. so you guys have a good weekend just by the new arrivals are buying up and renovating properties. but cultures often clash, for example, when it comes to lunch breaks, just don't get that, but 12 o'clock,

everything is stopped. literally desktop doesn't matter what they're doing, they'll stuff and then they'll til 2 o'clock and the customer there of drums. the union jack is gradually finding a home and so western france. but the process of settling in is not without hurdles . the nicholas and graham parker, she's an accountant, he's a handyman. they move to france in 2022. their picturesque country house built in $1780.00 both buildings and a converted holiday flat and tend to rent out to visitors. the graham parker's life long dream. he and his wife left norfolk for

a fresh start chapter 38 stressful years working in england. you know, once a slower pace of life, that was the plan. in reality, he's working as hard as ever there sheet to for holiday flat needs another bedroom currently and then we have 3, and the most inquires or things be getting used for a 4 bedroom. so hence the new so it's going to be a bedroom. we don't sweet and access out straight out to the co and i've got to start for a month to bear with it before i start coming that's. that's a lot of pressure. the couple needs to start re keeping the costs the renovation. soon. most of the holiday flat

is ready to welcome guests, but which authorities do the parkers have to register their business with and what taxes will they have to pay? they still have a lot of unanswered questions, but 1st, they need to finish the renovations. graham is still getting used to the fact that he pretty much has to do everything himself, us from the have we french right? because of the minute the we all seem to come and process jobs, we ask them to come and look at you of that. they just don't all have a don't turn up or they turn up and they never returned with a cost a no price. um, we did want to bring in french that you cool the we're just really struggling the minute to get them to do and come and do any work the the couple have 20 heck,

there's gram wants the new pool to be ready by summer. he and nicholas sold their home in the east of england for 1800000 pounds. that's over 2000000 euro. it's a huge burn house that graham had lovingly converted over the years. now that their children are grown up, they decided to invest in a new home in france, nicolo practices, french every day, twice a week she attends a language school in the neighboring village. the most difficult thing is the ex n o c k is spinning dish. there's lots of sounds that we just don't have any dish so that that's really difficult. ready learning french takes up several hours of her day

because we really have delta breaks it. you have to be able to speak a, what level french, in order to keep your visa. so if you go with a visa, you have to take a test which is basically this, this, it. and it saw some things in the back. um, if you file the test, depending on how badly you file the test, they give you between 20600 hours of free french lessons. but they can be any way and they can be any times. and some people have to drive like an hour and a half to get to the lesson. i think this is the last 10 months in france have been far more stressful than they expected.

they retail, it will divide between the british and the french. the, you know, there is some something gotten on the i think i, it says since break say obviously you've got the british coming out of a weekday monday and by not loaded out houses and, and run a volume in the a lot of the french couldn't the phone were useful and nothing. that's where the device come. their new home cost $1200000.00 euro so they can bridge the 1st year with their savings these days the region is so full of brits. it's known as the one year shire. many of its historical buildings and houses are for sale. the demand is growing, and the state agent, se there's a price for raging. during the pandemic, many people from francis cities also re discovered the terms of the countryside.

steve and helen robin serve both the butcher's to originally come from your oxford . they've been in france for more than 8 years. every thursday they set up their market stall in the town of a may after several decades as employees, steven helen have set up their own small business here, selling traditional british meat products to to, to but by not truthful greens, we called and him didn't smoke and the same with the straight key. these are the sort of thing you'd have in a bike in some way. english people and the show is that for breakfast with aig, some saucy in spring 2015, a couple saw a tv report about the south west of france. they pack their bags headed there on holiday and promptly bought a house for digit,

for me to otherwise i don't think we would do it now cuz we don't speaking of french to be fluent in front to get by. but we're not fluent. if it's easier, you know, size. uh, that was more leeway that were moving and the providing you could prove to them that you could support yourself and you were going to expedite dependent everything they well can do because he's had around the 28th. i would really, really poor areas and everything, and it's the british people that came and brought the houses and did them up and everything and then started put in blogs back into these villages. the majority of locals are elderly. there's been an exodus of young people up to the cities. how did they feel about all the brits who made the area their home, the full mom menu says he gets on well with them. but he speaks english and like many other french people,

there are english shops and english here dresser in lots of shelves are completely surrounded by english. people sound like it. others are less keen on subject. that's what a me is like now. he was up on the stuff about the the new amy is a special case. so almost beside the many wealthy brits have settled in and around a may nickel and graham parker live. just 20 minutes away by car. they moved to france because they wanted a fresh start. but there were other reasons to coming from england. we said it's an easy and travel with this. you know, you got struck sky, known everywhere. now they've just the, you know, you got the notice he strikes go know the health system either he's meant to be file file, but you use that during the deltas. you could ring them monday morning and so the

83530. you can get an appointment. where's either here? you could, it looks promising. now you can ring up so you can just turn in but then get the pump. apparently, the dentist you can just draw it to get you take down and draw it back on the good . well, you couldn't even get a dentist in the night. the nicholas strolling through town with her mother patricia. she lives with them in the house next door. clicks a reset, key one just came to keys. please.

nicholas father died 5 years ago. she's been looking after her mother ever since. the say this one, you need to have a nice the waiting for the friends home, legal paperwork, we need to because we run the shade. you have to purchase the same with different government develop moves and you have to register for the tax. but everything just seems to you look online to see what you need to send, don't for something. so you copy, oh, send the old and see most likely comes back with this is me saying,

well that's me saying. so then you have to spell library game and they say copy everything at least 3 times. it just, it's a very small. the facebook groups for british x pads are full of such stories, low application procedures, complicated regulations, and months of waiting for paper work. they blamed the prefecture the states representatives in the region. john sebastian lab montagnier is pre packed up docked on the in the wake of breakfasted, his staff suddenly had issued 9000 residents permits because the british nationals who were living here were no longer you citizens. a 4 fold increase in don't a longer so we have to develop a procedure that didn't penalize them too much. and that's simplified the process as much as possible. now. sure, of course this didn't exist before breaks it. you have it, but the, the amount should have continued. nickel, a parker is about to start an online french class for any

new so do you remember what the nasal file sound is? so when the class is practicing pronunciation frannie there, teacher is in england. spending shall we say, val before and n for an n is nasal n v n n e sign is when are you ready? oh, oh, oh, show show, show celestial love complete. led to all the same. yeah. so don't believe that the, the next morning steve and helen robins are on their way to their butcher shop.

right next to their home. after around 40 years says employees, steve and his wife have set up their own business here. selling a little bit and enjoying life due to their savings. they don't need to work too hard. after all, they did that already for decades in england. tomorrow is market day and they need to prepare their supplier as a neighboring pig farm. they make every things the british law, according to traditional english butchery. the fact vacant for our classic english breakfast is always popular. that is due by a friend of which is they do the street in which is by

sandwiches that one well was in the other english people. little bit of a growing number of french people are also discovering their products. they say once packaged, everything goes straight into cold storage. the couple suffered a major set back in july 2020, out of the blue shirt of glass and the dry grass started a fire in the butcher shop, a little afraid for a whole year. we spent all our savings to live for that year and buying mimi you equipment because we didn't have enough money with the insurance. so we have to use all sizes for that. graham parker needs doors and windows for the holiday flats. 4th, bedroom, nicolai's going with them, because graham doesn't speak french as

a child. he struggled in school. he called la french because he's dyslexic, and he is just no way he can. he can do it, we'll pick it up by the time. but he will never be fluent and he'd never be in a box test. he often finds himself in uncomfortable situations. one of my main ones was i've waiting to to be able to search and, and i stood next to the materials i've opened, which just a couple of i knew was about to and by said, pointing to the driver. and i told them i wanted to do both of those that and then the guy just looked at me and said no, no. so i just the next question. um i just we need a uh window jeanetta fresh, tow seal and a no more. just

a normal pine entrance though. okay. yeah. what was the dimensions uh, i can do any i can. i was gonna show you his uh thing. and i haven't been able to get so he said this, what i'm going to say was the window lowered up. i think i'm going to sell a token in system to i think place it's almost 10 o'clock and predictably the painters haven't arrived. the ceilings in the main house are still stained from the water used to put out the fire firefighters had to drench the entire roof. so the 3 is all a still not finished off the finances with you to come back yesterday to paint the maintenance. so in the house and then continually through the house. but i never turned up. uh, apparently they had an emergency. so then they are supposed to be here today

tonight as well. so lovely. thank you. graham has managed to get everything he needs i'm slowly picking up some of the woods um, but this has actually been really easy. who's made it really easy? oh, it got to get you. okay. yes. 50 percent of his customers says the salesman, or the many brits who live in the region, these are the ones that they're slow to learn french. it's not easy. like if they had more or less of them didn't go faster, does and faith in similar to that, to me. that's why we have to speak english. otherwise, we wouldn't sell any windows, you know, about limited the,

the just after 11, steve and helen's painters finally show up. you know, the new the damp spots are finally point to be dealt with. the painter admits the language barrier is a problem with the local press. so say like say, think look, good lords to do. it's just very complicated making yourself understood, of explaining that they need to clear everything away that it can take time. there might be a delay, but we have so much work maybe in the role is a civic so they don't really understand or the home phone. what

the nice to meet you. ebony pest solutions. good. good. thank you. very nice. yvonne calls hockman is a financial consultant. she helps foreigners navigate the french bureaucracy. we were we rename, i guess we went into the system. okay. yes. um we got talking to somebody and he said, he said, oh, you need to add homes. uh, i recommend to, oh the you tell me that uh for 2023, renting out the sheet and phones is from a fiscal point of view from a legal point of view. something quite special. and i went on, you the 1st french what the, what would be important for you, that is blue castle,

liberty furnished rental. the much needed introduction to french tax and tendency law involves a lot of technical terms and exemptions. graham, however, mainly wants to know whether he'll have to take the dreaded language test. today. as you have a visa, there is no obligation to french lessons. oh, i see the baby's heart story to me was this how learning french learning started? you're saying it was really a couldn't be mine. copeland miko right. somebody because i i called so we did that . so very for a mess to the massive. why the same people probably still on the sides of the site and ice. i went and did my french test and i've been given 600 compulsory i was. so what that is, i mean you to today, you go for,

you'll have gone for ones. yes. the so the renewal would very likely be for now this year. okay. the people in some situations uh, they go immediately for 3 full yes, visa us. then there is the question of making that existing. okay. so the things are a little bit more complicated assessment as what you, what you might hear. but i've, i've been a massive believe room, i like that when people come to england, i should learn english. so watch it when i come to proud. so i should learn french, and that's the end of it. yes, to the den, to itemize the agree with the but you will, i'm going to pick it up and we will get it. so i set did context decoration, which is quite a that we said a couple is happy to spend some money on the hand holder 1st and their confidence that once nicholas passes the language test, things will get easier. later that

afternoon, the french neighbor katelyn mili me a drops by joseph. this comes up to him here. this is one of them as being ready to just after nickel a and gram moved in cat doesn't knocked on their door and asked if she could let her horses graze on their grounds. in return, she suggested giving nicolo writing and french lessons sufficient for the day i'm going out with my hosting seekers. equity is always one to add holes level. visa is the perfect solution for us because we get to have the whole series. that responsibility. that's great. and i get to then spring friends. so in friendships

and masks for much because he's speaking french, of course, let me say when both sides are up for it, the english french relationship can work when you want to go on the right to to really of the left. what the english the wrong way, your office is because uh the valley of the what. what gosh, come to the the town of do a lot. late afternoon. bye gina is serving her regulars. the steve and helen meet up with their english friends here every friday. just like they used to in the past, back in the u. k. from time to time div self bacon here. the cafe de la pay is almost entirely british does. she know says 3 quarters of her customers are ex pats

. were called to the family and that positive thoughts everyone knows everyone here. the decision was made moving across the room with all the options, hours the, far, everything outside the notarized, the nickel and graham are still hard at work. a nickel works 5 hours a day and the car, the grams still has to get the ready before the 1st guests arrive in 3 weeks, a call and see any reason why i would want to go back to the guy city. oh, not throwing the sunshine.

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