A place in the Winter sun (TV) ,moving to another country ?

Thrugelmir

C_Mababejive wrote: »

I had no idea it could get that nippy in France in Winter ??

A friend has a property on the lower reaches of the Midi Pyrennes. There's been snow there already. The property is around a mile down a track. Land Rover job in the depths of winter.

wesleyad

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Yes i hadnt thought of that. Isnt it the case that US immigration can get a bit snippy about continually returning on what is essentially a 6 month visitors visa? I mean its supposed to be for touristy types and not pseudo residents??

As far as I know they don't have a a problem as long as you can prove you keep a permanent residence in the UK and can prove a strong attachment(I don't know whether you even need to live there in your "off" 6 months). But of course the Americans are an interesting lot and can change the rules at any point, which would be a right pain if you'd just bought somewhere.

henry24

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

With all these type of programmes, including where people want to relocate within the UK, I'd love to see a follow up programme.


I've often thought wouldn't it be lovely to live in X - and then OH has pointed out that if you run of milk/bread - or even just fancied a takeaway, its a car trip.

The other thing with this is they are usually older people who are going to need things like the doctors or will maybe have to stop driving

Grumpelstiltskin

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

With all these type of programmes, including where people want to relocate within the UK, I'd love to see a follow up programme.


I've often thought wouldn't it be lovely to live in X - and then OH has pointed out that if you run of milk/bread - or even just fancied a takeaway, its a car trip.

This is running on BBC 1 at the moment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=I%20Escaped%20to%20the%20Country&suggid=urn%3Abbc%3Aprogrammes%3Ab08d65s2

Murphybear

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

With all these type of programmes, including where people want to relocate within the UK, I'd love to see a follow up programme.


I've often thought wouldn't it be lovely to live in X - and then OH has pointed out that if you run of milk/bread - or even just fancied a takeaway, its a car trip.

Been there, done that. A farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor wasn't much fun. Not just the shops, it was the lack of mobile signals and the lack of broadband :eek:

Cakeguts

AdrianC wrote: »

Umm, you know they have mountains there, right? Quite big ones. People go to them on winter holidays to strap planks to their feet and break limbs.

They had minus 17C for 3 weeks one year. Minus 12C is fairly normal and this is not in the mountains. It is continental climate very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer. North Lot and South Correze in the middle of France a long way south.

Murphybear

AdrianC wrote: »

Umm, you know they have mountains there, right? Quite big ones. People go to them on winter holidays to strap planks to their feet and break limbs.

We have friends who had a ski lodge in the hilly bits of France

It was a real pain to get there, they drove down 2 or 3 times a year to keep an eye on it.

In the end they sold it and bought a lovely holiday chalet in Shaldon (just over the river from Teignmouth, where all the posh folks live:rotfl:)

Slinky

When I was first looking to buy somewhere I was sent some details of a little cottage with no neighbours. I remember thinking 'what if the doorbell goes after dark?' Open the door? or shoot them through the letterbox..... (not that I had the means to).

coffeehound

I looked into emigrating to Australia about six years ago, but it turned out I was too useless to be allowed to live there.

Not wanted down under, then.

Mutton_Geoff

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

I've often thought wouldn't it be lovely to live in X - and then OH has pointed out that if you run of milk/bread - or even just fancied a takeaway, its a car trip.

You don't even have to move abroad to suffer this. After a lifetime living in and around London and the burbs, I moved to the Cotswolds after many weekends away there, it looked like living the dream.


Unfortunately real businesses are few and far between, it's generally geared up for tourists, plenty of the old village shops and pubs have been converted to residential and your neighbours likely to be snooty retirees rather than local families.


I didn't like it and moved back within earshot of a tube train.