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We haven't really kept track of it and we're still buying generic things just to have in the cabinets, for our apartment, as we determine we need them, like baking supplies (flour, sugar, spices, condiments, etc), serving dishes, kitchen tools, etc. I'd say maybe $300 month for food. It really depends on how often we eat out and/or conversely cook at home. If we ate at home more, I think we'd spend more. We have breakfast at home, 6 days per week, lunch at home 3-4 days a week and probably have dinner at home 2-3x per week and eat out the rest of the time.

The information is under the video in information on the video, about halfway down the page after my social media and contact info. I don't know exactly where in France she is located. I simply use her email address to work with her.

Thanks! Good to know!

Didi, I never received any PM on Instagram or elsewhere

Yes, we were there last week!

We do have children, all grown. They have not shared their feelings about our move. Most seemed happy for us when we saw them before moving. One of them already bought airline tickets to come visit and the others are always welcome.

Yes, we know. In this short video, I had "sent" Jeff to get pain au chocolate for me, and the chocolate covered croissant all over his face, was what he brought back for himself.

We have no plan whatsoever to own a car, here in France. We do plan to travel and on occasion may want to rent a car to do that....or if we just need to go to a store and pick up things that are too large to move by ourselves, while riding a tram or walking down the street. You can rent cars very inexpensively here. And there are some places it would be tough to go to without a car, like the lavender fields of Provence, Tuscany Italy....you need a car to get around, unless you want to spend a fortune using taxis or Uber, if you can find them. You need a driver's license to rent a car and your US license is only good for one year once you move to France.

Always keep in mind, if you need more time to read text I have in a video, the beauty of RUclips is that you can pause the video, slide back and re-read, and take as long as you like to read it. 😊

We did consider Menton, however, we didn't feel that it has as much to offer us, as Nice. There's always something happening in Nice, and the public transportation here, particularly, if you're a senior, (and don't want to own a car) can't be beat by any of the other towns along the coast.

Thank you for your response. Good to know about transportation

Thanks! The interview at VFS is not really an interview. They really just make sure you have all of your documents and take your fingerprints and they forward everything to the French Embassy for processing. Check out our past video about our appt with VFS in Miami to turn in our paperwork for our Visas.

bctraductions11@gmail.com Her name is Carmen

That was actually our wedding day, a little over 9 years ago, in the formal attire ❤️

Thank you for taking the time to share your kind words! 😊 ❤️

Check again. It wasn't there right when the video was published but I did add, it a couple of hours later, on Sunday. It's in the details/info on the video, below the video, maybe half way down.

Beware of "not" buying? We saw lots of knock-offs, many that looked very authentic. We don't buy those things. I'd rather have the real ones. Had my "fun" back in the day, many years ago , when I never dreamed I could afford to own real ones, shopping on Canal Street in NYC. Those days are long behind me.

I have no idea how or why France decided these are the only states they will have a reciprocal agreement with. 🤔

@@postcardsfrommygoldenyears It's not a French decision but a US state decision. It would be much simpler for French administration to exchange all US licenses.

@@postcardsfrommygoldenyears I think it has to do with what age you are eligible for a licence. In France you have to be 18 years old, so the reciprocal agreement is with those states in the US that have the same requirements.

@7314jazzy That can't be the reason. In PA where I got my first driver's license, I was 16 yrs old. In FL, where we moved to France from, also a reciprocal state, allows driver's licenses at 16 as well.

I believe you can only do that from the US and it requires a landline. We don't have a landline and I don't really have any need for my old telephone number. I am dropping it at the end of the month. Someone had suggested that to us before we moved, as well, but we switched to Mint Mobile instead. Bad decision. For the most part, everyone we care to hear from, in the US, knows how to contact us on Whatsapp instead. If we could just get our Credit card company and US banks to use it life would be perfect. We don't really need to contact them for anything anymore and rarely even use our cc, so for us, almost a non-issue.

@@postcardsfrommygoldenyears No, no. It's completely virtual. I use it for calls to the US and banking where I don't have a Whatsapp connection. If you can set up Whatsapp connections for entities other than banks, credit card companies, brokerages that will be a big help too. Just google magic jack and look at the section that explains how it works.

Hi, we didn't own a home in Florida to sell. Yes we have a US mailing address only for our US credit cards and US Bank accounts. Once our SS starts to be deposited into our France bank acct we are closing the US bank accounts. Too much trouble trying to get 4-digit security codes, etc. We use physicaladdress.com. We aren't requesting to have our SS moved to our Wise card. We're transferring it to our France bank account, Credit Agricole. Just an FYI, we tried to open our old BNP Paribus account in the US too, but as soon as we told them we were moving to Nice, they transferred us to their Nice International banking representative. We had to open the account thru her and she wouldn't finalize the approval of the acct until we met with her, in person, here in Nice. We have subsequently moved our acct from there. BNP requires that you keep 10,000 Euros in a savings account and not touch it, if you want a debit card from the bank (which also has a monthly fee). We didn't want to have 10k tied up in any bank. Last, when we originally got our Wise cards we were still in the US and used our US home address. When we moved we changed the address to our new France address.

@@postcardsfrommygoldenyears Thank you An & Jeff! I will look into both Wise and Credit Agricole. Another question: Why Nice? We looked at Nice via RUclips but found Toulon to look less busy. But video can distort. Also, Toulon seems cheaper to rent. We want to rent and travel. And we want to be in a secure place to invite friends from Ukraine (to visit or escape the russian genocide). Italy looked complicated, as did Spain and Portugal. The French healthcare looks so much better. A neurologist MS scholar I contacted stated that Nice has a good neurologist (Cindy has MS). Merci, again!!!!! Dean & Cindy

@DeanRamser As "seniors" moving from Florida, Nice ticked all of our boxes on what we were looking for. And the public transport system here in Nice makes it very easy to live without a car! For our answer to "why Nice", check out the video we did on why we selected Nice, last year, as we were planning our move. 😊 Here's a link - ruclips.net/video/dCZJXjMqocM/видео.html

@@postcardsfrommygoldenyears Merci An & Jeff!! Thank you both for your experience, insight, and advice.

We had Verizon for many years. Verizon is very expensive to continue to use in France. $10 per day for International Service plan with your regular monthly bill which was expensive . Dumped them for Mint Mobile just before we moved because of the price. Unlimited everything for only $15mo, prepaid for 90 days. The problem was that when we're in Europe, Mint Mobile wants us to have an International plan to make calls. So you put dollars in what they call a "bank for International calls. Not an issue, But it doesn't automatically draw from that "bank" if you want to make a call. You have to manually go to Mint Mobile and turn it "on", for a day or a week or ? Can't just be for one call. When I turned it on to try to make a call, I'd get an error message saying "outgoing calls blocked"! I spent an hour on the phone with Mint Mobile, using my France number to call them. (Cost me 35 Euros for the call) and they couldn't figure out why I can't call the US or why I'm not receiving any "4-digit security codes from my US bank when they tried to send them or why I only get the outgoing calls blocked message when trying to use the Mint Mobile sim card. Plus since I have 2 Sim cards on my phone, I can only have one on at a time. If the Mint Mobile card isn't turned on, I don't receive any codes or texts from the US. So I can't call out, must use my France Sim card to make a call and never get the 4 digit codes. A mess.

Didi! Where have you been? We're still hoping to get together with you sometime. Be sure to send a PM. Have a good weekend!

@@postcardsfrommygoldenyears i had vacation with my parents and my partner therefore I wasn’t around much.

🤥@@Didi-ir1gr I checked my Instagram account and never received any request from you.

If you have never been to Nice, you really need to come to Nice. Nice is a city. There IS traffic in a city. There is far more to enjoying Nice, than noisy traffic. We don't like noisy traffic either, but there isn't noisy traffic everywhere in Nice. In some areas there are no cars allowed. There are lovely places to walk, lovely parks, lovely buildings, lovely cafes, restaurants, a spectacular port often filled with lovely yachts, lots of history. There's lots to see and do here in Nice that you will never see in one video of a Sunday morning or afternoon when we were "planted" at a cafe on one of the busiest main thoroughfares, waiting for an animal parade, across the busy street. Watch some of our past videos over the years of other things we've shared from Nice.