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28/01/2008, 14:06 Quillan Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 3,576 Re: Too many immigrants? I think its lack of employment and decent wages. We have around 18% unemployment here and that's why the youngsters leave. It does not matter what price the houses are if you have no job. I base this on my neighbours daughter who has bought a 3 bed semi in Brighton which is not a cheap place. They are playing the percentage and exchange rate game believing they will be able to buy a nice place in France with the money they make on selling their house in the UK in 7 years time. I'm not so sure myself but we will see. Just another small dig, she said "the English never seem to stop working. They work from nine in the morning to nine at night, they never seem to enjoy themselves" and this is Brighton? Whatever, she still thinks we work much harder than the French which is grand coming from her (being French and all). Ditto the last two comments (oops Coops snuckered one in while I was typing  ), it's exactly what I say. I had a bit of an argument a few years back in a bar with a local chap about high prices and said exactly that. Six months down the road his mum sadly died and he asked me if I knew any English people who might give him a good price for the house. After all the English always pay over the odds. The French are no different to us in this respect, look at house prices in rural Britain, the British young people have the same problem. I hear it's all of Europe in general these days and is happening with the new countries that have recently entered the EU. At the end of the day we all want as much money as we can for our house. http://www.chambresdhote.com    Report

28/01/2008, 14:10 Just Katie Joined on 11/03/2006 Posts 3,526 Re: Too many immigrants?  Quillan wrote:  At the end of the day we all want as much money as we can for our house. Of course, and, it is not greed, it is obtaining market value which is the price paid from a willing buyer to a willing seller.    Report

28/01/2008, 15:25 LisaJ Joined on 17/10/2004 Posts 106 Re: Too many immigrants? For a country that is as secular as Groslard is trying to have us believe, there seem to be a remarkable number of Saints days and religious holidays. I don't think Ascension would mean much to many people in England any more, let alone Assumption - and as for which Saint's day you have to wait for before you can put out your bedding plants.... regards Lisa    Report

28/01/2008, 15:44 Quillan Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 3,576 Re: Too many immigrants?  LisaJ wrote: For a country that is as secular as Groslard is trying to have us believe, there seem to be a remarkable number of Saints days and religious holidays. I don't think Ascension would mean much to many people in England any more, let alone Assumption - and as for which Saint's day you have to wait for before you can put out your bedding plants.... regards Lisa That's why Napoleon separated the state from the church. You see they kept having all these religious holidays so every time they went to war they lost (bit like us nipping over to help out in WW1 and 2) for further reading, and to back up my claim, have a look at French Military History http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html   http://www.chambresdhote.com    Report

28/01/2008, 20:45 tegwini Joined on 19/09/2007 Wiltshire & Vienne Posts 154 Re: Too many immigrants? Thanks to Quillan & others for pointing out that loads of French are now in the UK - recently I read of 400,000.   All to make money & presumably re-patriate it.  Even a few in my small village in southern Wiltshire & some I know at school; one even with a UK grant re-qualifying to teach here- no jobs for her in Normandy. We Brits bring money into France, employ French artisans, spend our money on house removations, etc & etc THAT, post must be wind-up, can't possibly be serious! Tegwini I think, therefore perhaps I am...    Report

29/01/2008, 6:36 jon Joined on 29/12/2007 Gironde Posts 328 Re: Too many immigrants? Tegwini....this proves...more or less what I have been saying since I came to this forum a few months ago. Everyone goes/moves to where they feel they can make things work for them. I have brought my money here to France and purchased a property...employing French artisans. Offering my life style exsperiences and culinary skills to those who venture from other countries to enjoy a week or a few days away from their hecting life.People like birds miagrate.    Report

29/01/2008, 7:30 Quillan Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 3,576 Re: Too many immigrants?  tegwini wrote: Thanks to Quillan & others for pointing out that loads of French are now in the UK - recently I read of 400,000.   All to make money & presumably re-patriate it.  Even a few in my small village in southern Wiltshire & some I know at school; one even with a UK grant re-qualifying to teach here- no jobs for her in Normandy. We Brits bring money into France, employ French artisans, spend our money on house removations, etc & etc THAT, post must be wind-up, can't possibly be serious! Tegwini It probably is a windup. I think you will find there are nearly double the amount of French living and working in the UK (in general). The thing is you don't hear many English back home going 'Bloody French, come over hear stealing our jobs, buying our houses, earning shed loads of money and then buggering off home with it'. We might do it with the Poles though but then every one does.   I think this stems from the fact that unlike the French we are NOT (oops) such a chauvinistic or racist country. http://www.chambresdhote.com    Report

29/01/2008, 7:59 raindog Joined on 26/09/2007 HERAULT Posts 761 Re: Too many immigrants? Yes, I think we've been had with this thread. groslard never turned up yesterday - he was probably rocking with laughter in front of his computer. Quillan, you've slipped past the Naughty Word Software with b*ggering - how? edit: ah, I see now - you're a mod sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth    Report

29/01/2008, 8:10 Will Joined on 22/09/2004 Sussex & 50 (Mortainais) Posts 4,727 Re: Too many immigrants? "...unlike the French we are such a chauvinistic or racist country" I can't believe you really meant that. Chauvin was a Frenchman of course and although 'racist' is a bit strong, I think few would dispute the fact that the French can be highly xenophopic towards certain foreigners, in a way that would not be tolerated in Britain. Will intentionally blank signature http://www.vienormande.com    Report

29/01/2008, 8:23 raindog Joined on 26/09/2007 HERAULT Posts 761 Re: Too many immigrants? Nobody does chauvinism as well as the French imo..... sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth    Report

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