Excellent video! Bonjour! We are retired educators. We just finished a long stay in Europe: 5 months helping a new school open in Lvivv, one month in Krakow learning about WWII, and a month in Tallinn. My teacher's pensions and our social security, plus rental income, qualify us for the Long Stay Visa. But we are not sure which area of France is best for us as seniors. Healthcare (my wife has MS), public transportation (we loved the trains in Poland), and within walking distance to markets are important (moderate climate; extremes are problematic). Merci! Dean & Cindy *great teaching demo! **Maslow!!
Merci beaucoup, Dean and Cindy! I really appreciate all of your amazing feedback as well as sharing your story. It means a lot to me and I am so glad that my presentation was helpful. And hopefully certain aspects of the conversation will help you make a decision now or later on. It sounds like you are well on your way to living a wonderful life abroad! Bravo!! 👏
You are so welcome, Maria! I’m so glad that you found this presentation to be helpful and fun. While it’s a departure from my normal format, I thought it’d be worthwhile to share the program!
This was SO good! I can't thank you enough... I am a dreamer and this was a great wake-up call. A help, not a halt to my back moving to Italy ... have been and lived so I know it's right but where? I love Paris and pretty much all of the French countryside but Rome was Home. You are simply the best at what you're doing and so easy on the eyes... Thanks! ❤B
Love this video! I do hyper romanticize living in France, although I am also very down to earth, so I realize that I am doing so. I no longer dream of moving to France, but I fully intend to spend a few months of the year living there as long as I can. I enjoyed the quiz and it did reveal the kind of lifestyle I live now, and how I like to live in France. What a fun and helpful video!
I’m so happy that you found this presentation interesting and useful! Congrats on taking the extra steps to better understand your needs and work towards your own French life! 🥳🥳
Great video! Thanks! My wife and I plan on retiring in a couple of years and moving from LA to Europe. My wife prefers Germany because she's German and because her family is there, but we're not really sure WHERE we might live there. I'd prefer France for a number of reasons… the food being one. I speak French well enough to generally get by (learned it way back when from 1st to 12th grades) but also German, though not as well, and I wouldn’t consider myself truly FLUENT in French. My wife speaks Germany fluently (it is her first language) and absolutely NO French. On the quiz, I was absolutely both directions with no clear “winner.” On the one hand, I'd love to live someplace like Paris, though in something bigger than a closet and more like the 100 sm condo we're in now. Someplace with tons of stuff to do, and where you can just walk around the corner and get a baguette. But on the flip side, I'm NOT big into friends, or “sports clubs” or anything like that, and would love to be someplace where the baker and the butcher and I know each other on a first name basis. I'd LOVE to be able to buy a chateau and spend my days fixing it up because that IS, sort of, a hobby (fixing walls, and painting walls, and building stuff, and that sort of thing).
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REALLY helpful!
I'm so glad!
Excellent video! Bonjour! We are retired educators. We just finished a long stay in Europe: 5 months helping a new school open in Lvivv, one month in Krakow learning about WWII, and a month in Tallinn. My teacher's pensions and our social security, plus rental income, qualify us for the Long Stay Visa. But we are not sure which area of France is best for us as seniors. Healthcare (my wife has MS), public transportation (we loved the trains in Poland), and within walking distance to markets are important (moderate climate; extremes are problematic). Merci! Dean & Cindy
*great teaching demo!
**Maslow!!
Merci beaucoup, Dean and Cindy! I really appreciate all of your amazing feedback as well as sharing your story. It means a lot to me and I am so glad that my presentation was helpful. And hopefully certain aspects of the conversation will help you make a decision now or later on. It sounds like you are well on your way to living a wonderful life abroad! Bravo!! 👏
So helpful! Merci beaucoup.
Thanks so much for watching!
LOVE this type of video…really makes you think with great questions to ponder! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Great video- lots of food for thought whether moving to France or anywhere else.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was a fun video but also enlightening. I would likely be happy in a city or maybe a suburb. Thank you, Shannon.
You are so welcome, Maria! I’m so glad that you found this presentation to be helpful and fun. While it’s a departure from my normal format, I thought it’d be worthwhile to share the program!
This was SO good! I can't thank you enough... I am a dreamer and this was a great wake-up call. A help, not a halt to my back moving to Italy ... have been and lived so I know it's right but where?
I love Paris and pretty much all of the French countryside but Rome was Home.
You are simply the best at what you're doing and so easy on the eyes... Thanks! ❤B
You're so welcome!
Love this video! I do hyper romanticize living in France, although I am also very down to earth, so I realize that I am doing so. I no longer dream of moving to France, but I fully intend to spend a few months of the year living there as long as I can. I enjoyed the quiz and it did reveal the kind of lifestyle I live now, and how I like to live in France. What a fun and helpful video!
I’m so happy that you found this presentation interesting and useful! Congrats on taking the extra steps to better understand your needs and work towards your own French life! 🥳🥳
Great video! Thanks!
My wife and I plan on retiring in a couple of years and moving from LA to Europe. My wife prefers Germany because she's German and because her family is there, but we're not really sure WHERE we might live there.
I'd prefer France for a number of reasons… the food being one. I speak French well enough to generally get by (learned it way back when from 1st to 12th grades) but also German, though not as well, and I wouldn’t consider myself truly FLUENT in French. My wife speaks Germany fluently (it is her first language) and absolutely NO French.
On the quiz, I was absolutely both directions with no clear “winner.” On the one hand, I'd love to live someplace like Paris, though in something bigger than a closet and more like the 100 sm condo we're in now. Someplace with tons of stuff to do, and where you can just walk around the corner and get a baguette.
But on the flip side, I'm NOT big into friends, or “sports clubs” or anything like that, and would love to be someplace where the baker and the butcher and I know each other on a first name basis. I'd LOVE to be able to buy a chateau and spend my days fixing it up because that IS, sort of, a hobby (fixing walls, and painting walls, and building stuff, and that sort of thing).
Thank you for sharing your story and wishing you bon courage and a wonderful journey.