Moving back

[widge]

Personally I cannot imagine moving back to the UK, i try to avoid going back unless I have to.

[Polarengineer]

I think one should say they are going forward and not going back. UK will never be the same as when one left it. Going back implies returning to the old ways, which are just memories. Each major move in life ought to be to strive for something better.

[Pathca]

Personally I cannot imagine moving back to the UK, i try to avoid going back unless I have to.

That’s a very thoughtless post Widge. You don’t know people’s individual circumstances and whilst they might feel they HAVE to go back they may not WANT to. Others should offer support not “well I wouldn’t do it”

[widge]

Personally I cannot imagine moving back to the UK, i try to avoid going back unless I have to.

That’s a very thoughtless post Widge. You don’t know people’s individual circumstances and whilst they might feel they HAVE to go back they may not WANT to. Others should offer support not “well I wouldn’t do it”

I apologise, I do realise that there are many valid reasons that people make the decision to return, my comment was not meant as a criticism of the OP, but just my personal feelings on the idea of moving back, sorry if I have upset anyone.

[MAD87]

I understand your personal feelings, widge.

+6, Char

[hughnique]

Sometimes you don't have much of a choice and there are always two opinions in a marriage, I am satisfied to sit here at the moment, awaiting the appearance of a very rare species, known as the house buyer. We are both getting older by the day, both have diabetes, I have had minor heart surgery, and I know that medical care here is streets ahead of the NHS, however OH has this inherent fear of me popping off and she being in the driving seat, on her lonesome, having to sort out all the necessary. Then we have the archaic succession laws here, we had two sons, one of whom died back in 2020, now his daughter, our granddaughter, is entitled to a third share in our estate, the same as our surviving son, and that is not what we want, we don't want to cut her out, but feel the behest should be more in favor of our surviving son. When we came here 20 years ago, strangely, we were 20 years younger, I was a few stone lighter, so the ground and work were easily manageable, now it's not the case. I think we should have gone back on visits a bit more often, but with animals in the household, it becomes somewhat expensive to accommodate them whilst away, we have tried the cattery and housesitter solutions but the latter hasn't been a good experience of late and the former works out dearer than the Premier inn. The latest fiasco is selling the Koi Carp in the pond, I have a buyer for half a dozen but trying to catch them is another story, I had a largish intex paddling pool which I had used when having to drain down the pond but that got sold along with other items that I now wish I had kept, so I now have to go and buy another at God knows how much. Oh well onwards and upwards.

[Polly]

Yes, visits to the UK must be very difficult when you have animals, Hunique. I hope before long you have interested parties to view your house who absolutely love it.

It seems that many look on returning to the UK as something to dread. We loved our life in France but we also enjoy life in the UK.

On the subject of health care, we’ve received some excellent health care in France over the last 40 years or so, particularly the last 18 years, know the urgences at Nîmes very well, but some dreadful ‘care’ too.

In the UK we’ve had quite long waits in A&E, although triage in the patient area works well in our local hospital.

We've had waits in the Urgences lasting many hours, with long lines of patients on trolleys overnight, and once they lost my husband, told me he’d been discharged and had gone home. I searched the corridors for him and found him about 10 minutes later, still on a trolley and with drips still attached.

Between the two of us we’ve very recently needed NHS care for a heart attack diagnosed on a visit to a health centre, and fluid on the lung, both with excellent care. Not every hospital is as good as ours nor every GP practice, as several people we know in other parts of the country have said they wished they lived near us, but our hospital, GP practice and the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford are excellent.

[Hotrodder]

It has been described as a Post Code Lottery. A similar situation is said to exist in France but I haven't seen it yet in Brittany over the last 25 years of residence.

[hughnique]

We have been looking, to get an idea of what might be available on the rental market, found a three bed detached bungalow in Whitstable, absolutely perfect and at £1650 a month very reasonable, unfortunately too early for us as we are not anywhere near a position to commit. Lets hope it comes on the market again when we are in a position to take it on, hopefully they allow cats, albeit 2 of ours are 17 and under veterinary care long term

[Polly]

Hughnique, wishing you the very best of luck in finding a buyer and also finding somewhere you like that’s suitable to live back in the UK.