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10/05/2008, 11:50 Val_2 Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 3,071 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France? An example of the cost of living going up here.On Monday I bought  a box of the Super U Bien Vu eggs for 89centimes. Yesterday evening I bought another box from the same shop at €1,25,an increase of 36centimes in five days probably because carburants are still rising daily for delivery costs. Not much in the scheme of things as important as buying a house here,but neverthe less only one item out of thousands are rising weekly whereas wages and pensions etc are not. Ginger has shown guts in admitting she found it hard here,many many people still wear rose tinted specs and refuse to accept all the changes going on here. We are paying (actually we have refused and have demanded a lower figure) well over the equivalent of £1000 per month here in health,pension and social security as self employed and so are many thousands of other artisans.This should also be taken into account for anyone wishing to come here and set up inbusiness.    Report

10/05/2008, 12:28 Scooby Joined on 25/09/2007 Peak District Posts 245 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France? I would echo the comments of fuel costs.  We are in France for only a few months of the year but our oil bills are scary - far higher than our UK oil bills for a similar sized house.  Our neighbour (who lives in a tiny one bedroom village house) was telling me her annual electric bill has doubled in the last year - from 550 euros to nearly 1100 - and they use a woodburning stove for all their heating.  French wine maybe cheap - but not much else is.    Report

10/05/2008, 12:33 Scooby Joined on 25/09/2007 Peak District Posts 245 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France?  Ginger wrote: I speak fluent French but can't find a decent job - or any job in fact! I've heard the same thing over and over again - from locals born and raised in France  Ginger wrote: .....many people told me before we moved that France is for retired people, not for people with families or who need to work and sadly I think they were right. That is exactly our view!    Report

10/05/2008, 12:44 spg Joined on 23/08/2004 Southern Morbihan 56 Posts 1,055 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France?  Scooby wrote: Our neighbour (who lives in a tiny one bedroom village house) was telling me her annual electric bill has doubled in the last year - from 550 euros to nearly 1100 - and they use a woodburning stove for all their heating.  Crikey what is she doing to use so much electricity? We have a 3 bedroom house and are all electric except for a gas hob so :-  electric heaters, washer, dryer, chauffe-eau etc so no wood-burning stove, no cheminee and our bill for the last 12 months was 1289 euros; the year before it was less than 1100 euros as it was a milder winter. Sue Computing - it's another world    Report

10/05/2008, 13:01 Lori Joined on 23/08/2004 Vaucluse (84) Posts 1,350 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France?  Ginger wrote: I speak fluent French but can't find a decent job - or any job in fact! I've heard the same thing over and over again - from locals born and raised in France  Ginger wrote: .....many people told me before we moved that France is for retired people, not for people with families or who need to work and sadly I think they were right. That is exactly our view! I agree with all that 100% Our electric bill is never less than 150 for two months.  Normally runs about 190 for two months.  Sometimes a bit higher.  Summer months are the lowest with long daylight hours and lots of outdoor barbecues.        Report

10/05/2008, 19:49 Scooby Joined on 25/09/2007 Peak District Posts 245 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France?  spg wrote: our bill for the last 12 months was 1289 euros; the year before it was less than 1100 euros as it was a milder winter. Sue Not sure what your winter temperature was the year before last but ours dropped (for several weeks) to minus 10 deg and less!  I notice you are in Morbihan - which I think has much milder winters than we do.    Report

10/05/2008, 20:37 Val_2 Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 3,071 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France? ^We are on the gulf stream in Finistère  north of the Morbihan region  and which rarely gets below 0°C so our heating bills are very low compared to regions further south you would think are warmer. I don't even own a winter coat as a kagoul is sufficient to keep out the wind and rain.    Report

10/05/2008, 21:33 Judith Joined on 01/02/2006 Posts 220 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France?  Val_2 wrote: An example of the cost of living going up here.On Monday I bought  a box of the Super U Bien Vu eggs for 89centimes. Yesterday evening I bought another box from the same shop at €1,25,an increase of 36centimes in five days probably because carburants are still rising daily for delivery costs. . You would be lucky to buy eggs inthe UK for €1.25 - more like £1.50 plus.  Costs are also rising in the UK, (for those now living only in France).  Judith W1 and Aude    Report

10/05/2008, 21:45 You can call me Betty Joined on 23/08/2004 Beaver-Free Zone Posts 963 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France? Not if you compare apples with apples (or in this case, eggs with eggs).....Super U Bien Vu would, I assume, compare with, say, Tesco's Value range. Today, you would indeed pay £1.50 for a box of the latter, however, it contains 15 eggs. They're on special offer. A box of 6 is 88p. In the year 2159 If man is still alive If woman can survive, they may find................    Report

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