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10/05/2008, 22:10 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,354 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France? Except sometimes, comparing like with like is no simple matter.  Madame, my nighbour, gets me eggs from some farm.  They come in all sizes and are usually also covered in chicken pooh.  I pay her 4 euros for 2 dozen.  I'm not sure whether they are good value or not.  To me, it's lovely to have madame bring my eggs and we compare cake recipes and generally have a bit of a moan about the cost of food or the weather.  Then we laugh and say cheerio to each other.  I get a chance to listen to French as she is spoke and to practise my halting version of it.  I'd say all that is excellent value!     Report

10/05/2008, 22:25 Judith Joined on 01/02/2006 Posts 253 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France?  You can call me Betty wrote: 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. All I can say is that I buy the cheapest I can find in the supermarket I use (which is not Tesco) and the cheapest ones which were about a pound are no longer stocked, and the next price level up is £1.50 for 6.  Agree, it does depend on where you shop, but the point I wanted to make was that it is not just in France where prices are going up, so if you cannot afford to live in France, can you afford to live in the UK either??  Oh, and by the way, jobs are getting harder to find here also, I've been out of work for 6 months, and I'm a highly skilled and experienced professional with many years work experience to bring to the workplace.  So no guarantee of a job in the UK either if you return. Judith W1 and Aude    Report

10/05/2008, 22:50 spg Joined on 23/08/2004 Southern Morbihan 56 Posts 1,083 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France?  Scooby wrote: I notice you are in Morbihan - which I think has much milder winters than we do. I don't know where your holiday home is so that makes it difficult to comment on your winter temperatures. Perhaps if you were to add your location to your profile it might help us sympathise re the size of your EDF bills. Sue Computing - it's another world    Report

10/05/2008, 23:18 You can call me Betty Joined on 23/08/2004 Beaver-Free Zone Posts 963 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France? Exactly right, S17....when I'm in France, my neighbour often pops round with half a dozen eggs which she gives me for nothing. Does this mean you're being ripped off at 4 euros for 2 dozen? I get the free French conversation too, so overall my deal's better than yours, and cheaper (especially bearing in mind that I'm no great fan of eggs) But if we're comparing the cost of living, and that's what the OP asked, then it does go a lot further than eggs. Now, quality of life, that's a whole separate debate.... In the year 2159 If man is still alive If woman can survive, they may find................    Report

11/05/2008, 9:06 opas Joined on 23/08/2004 catalonia, top of the hill en route to the Chateau Posts 2,186 Re: Cost of Living for familes in France? Thing are deffinatly going up, hee and in UK. But an example for France ; yesterday I shopped at Lidl, I bought a box of 16  mini icecream lollies which I buy on a regulat basis, they started out at 1.69 and went to 1.79 for many months. yesterday they were at 2.09 ! thats a 30 cent rise in a week.    Report

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