good nicholas and graham tucker. she's an accountant, he's a handyman. they moved to france in 2022. their picture risk country house built in $1780.00 both buildings and a converted holiday flat and tend to rent out to visitors. the gram parker's lifelong dream. he and his wife left norfolk for a fresh start chapter 38 stressful years working in england, you know, once a slower pace of life, that was the plan. in reality, he's working as hard as ever there sheet to for holiday flat needs. another bedroom currently and then we have 3, and the most inquires or things be getting used for

a 4 bedroom. so hence the new, so it's going to be a bedroom. we don't sweet and access out straight out to the co and i've got to start for a month to bear with it before i start coming that's. that's a lot of pressure. the couple needs to start re keeping the costs the renovation soon. the most of the holiday flat is ready to welcome guests, but which authorities do the parkers have to register their business with and what taxes will they have to pay? they still have a lot of unanswered questions, but 1st, they need to finish the renovations. graham is still getting used to the fact that he pretty much has to do everything himself, us from the have we french

right? because of the minute the we all seem to come and process jobs. we ask them to come and look at you of that. they just don't have a don't turn up, or they turn up and they never return wave. acosta. you know, price um, we did want to bring in french that you cool the we're just really struggling the minute to get them to do and come and do any work the the couple have 20 heck, there's gram wants the new pool to be ready by summer he and nicholas sold their home in the east of england for 1800000 pounds. that's over 2000000. europe's a huge burn house that graham had lovingly converted over the years. now that their children are grown up, they decided to invest in a new home in france, nicolo practices, french every day, twice a week she attends

a language school in the neighboring village. the most difficult thing is the ex n o c k is spinning dish. there's lots of sounds that we just don't have any of the dish, so that that's really difficult. learning french takes up several hours of her day. because we really have delta breaks it. you have to be able to speak a, what level french in order to keep your visa. so if you go with a visa, you have to take a test which is basically this, this, it. and it saw some things in the back. um, if you file the test, depending on how badly you file the test, they give you between 20600 hours of free french lessons. but they can be any way

and they can be any times. and some people have to drive like an hour and a half to get to the lesson. i think sophie, this is the last 10 months in france have been far more stressful than they expected. they retail, it would divide between the british and the french. the, you know, there is some something gotten on the i think i the same sprague say obviously you've got the british coming out as a weekday, monday and by not loaded out houses and, and run of i in the, a lot of the french couldn't the phone were useful and i think that's where the device come. their new home cost $1200000.00 euro since they can

bridge the 1st year with their savings these days the region is so full of brits. it's known as the one year shire. many of its historical buildings and houses are for sale. the demand is growing at a state agency. there is a price for raging during the pandemic, many people from francis cities also re discovered the terms of the countryside. the steve and helen robins are both the butchers to originally come from your oxford. they've been in france for more than 8 years. every thursday they set up their market stall in the town of a may. after several decades as employees, stephen helen have set up their own small business here, selling traditional british meat products to to,

to best buy is not true for green is we cold and in smoke and the same industry keeps season. and so it's the thing you'd have to buy can sandwich english people in the show is that for breakfast with aig? some saucy in spring 2015, a couple saw a tv report about the south west of france. they pack their bags headed their on holiday and promptly bought a house. so we did it for me to otherwise i don't think we would do it now, cuz we don't speak in a french suit to be fluent in front to get by. but we're not fluent if it's easier, you know, size. uh that was more leeway that were moving and the providing you could prove to them that you could support yourself and you were going to expedite dependent everything they well can do because he's had around there 20 years ago. but really,

really poor areas and everything. and it's the british people that came and brought the houses and did them up and everything and then started put in blogs back into these villages. the majority of locals are elderly. there's been an exodus of young people up to the cities. how did they feel about all the brits who made the area their home, the full mom menu says he gets on well with them. but he speaks english and like many other french people, there are english shops and english here dresser in lots of shelves are completely surrounded by english. people sound like it. others are less keen on said yeah, that's what a me is like now. he was up on the stuff about the new amy is a special case. so almost beside the many wealthy brits have settled in and around

amy, nickel and graham parker lived just 20 minutes away by car. they moved to france because they wanted a fresh start. but there were other reasons to coming from england. we said it's an easy and travel with this. you know, you've got struck sky known everywhere. now they've just the, you know, you've got the nurse who strikes go know the health system either. he's meant to be file file, but you use that the ring, the don't to is you could ring them monday morning and so the 830 i thought you could get an appointment. where's either here? you could, it looks promising. now you can ring up. so you can just turn in but then get the pump. apparently the dentist you can just draw, i've to get you to sit down and draw it back on the good. well, you couldn't even get a dentist in the night. the nicholas strolling through town with her mother. patricia. she lives with them in the house next door

. clicks a key one just came to keys. please. nicholas father died 5 years ago. she's been looking after her mother ever since this one you need to have a nice the

waiting for the friends home legal types of what we need to because we run the you have to purchase the same with different government to call it moves and you have to register for the tax, but everything just seems to you look online to see what you need to send don't for something. so you copy oh, sunday. oh, and see most likely comes back with this is me saying, well that's me saying. so then you have to spell library game and they cited copy everything at least 3 times. it just, it's a very small. the facebook groups for british x pads are full of such stories, low application procedures, complicated regulations, and months of waiting for paper work. they blamed the prefecture the states representatives in the region. john sebastian lab montagnier is pre packed up

docked on you. in the wake of breakfasted, his staff suddenly had issued 9000 residents permits, because the british nationals who were living here were no longer use citizens. a 4 fold increase in don't a longer so we had to develop a procedure that didn't penalize them too much. and that's simplified the process as much as possible. now. sure, of course this didn't exist before breaks it. uh, you have a bunch of the amount shopped in p nickel, a parker is about to start an online french class for any new so do you remember what the nasal file sound is? so when the class is practicing pronunciation for ending their teacher is in england spending, shall we say a file before and then for an m is nasal n v n n e site is when are you ready?

oh oh oh, show show, show celestial le complete lead told the same yeah. to the the next morning, steve and helen robins are on their way to their butcher shop. right next to their home. after around 40 years says employees, steve and his wife have set up their own business here, selling a little bit and enjoying life due to their savings. they don't need to work too hard. after all, they did that already. for decades in england. tomorrow is market day and they need to prepare their supplier as a neighboring pig farm. they make every things the british law according to

traditional english butchery. the fact vacant for a classic english breakfast is always popular by a friend of which is they do the street in which is by sandwiches that one well was in the other english people a growing number of french people are also discovering their products. they say once packaged, everything goes straight into cold storage. the couple suffered a major setback in july 2020,

out of the blue shirt of glass and the dry grass started a fire in the butcher shop, a widow's trade for a whole year. we spent all our savings to live for that year and buying mimi you equipment because we didn't have enough money with the insurance. so we have to use all sizes for that. graham parker needs doors and windows for the holiday flats. 4th, bedroom, nicolai's going with them, because graham doesn't speak french as a child. he struggled in school. he called la french because he's dyslexic, and he is just no way he can. he can do it, we'll pick it up by the time. but he will never be slow and he's never been in the office. he often finds himself in uncomfortable situations. one of my main ones was i've waiting team to to be able to search and, and i stood next to the materials i've opened, which just

a couple of i knew was about to and by said, pointing to the driver. and i told them i wanted to do both of those that and then the guy just looked at me and said no, no. so i just the next question. um i just we need a uh window jeanetta fresh dough seal and a no more just a normal pine entrance though. okay. yeah. what was the dimensions uh, i can do any can. i was gonna show you. here's the thing and i haven't been able to get so he said this, what i mean, i'm going to say it was the window lowered up. i think i'm opening system to open place. it's almost 10 o'clock, and predictably, the painters haven't arrived. the ceilings in the main house are still staying from

the water, used to put out the fire firefighters had to drench the entire roof. so the 3 is all still not finished off the finances with you to come back yesterday to paint the maintenance. so in the house and then continually through the house. but i never turned up. uh, apparently they had an emergency. so then they are supposed to be here today. but who knows what time? lovely. thank you. graham has managed to get everything he needs i'm slowly picking out some of the woods, but this is actually been really easy. he's made it really easy. oh,

it got to get you. okay. yes. 50 percent of his customers says the salesman or the many brits who live in the region. he's up in the country. they're slow to learn french. it's not easy. like if they had more or less of them didn't go faster me. doesn't they in sealer to that? to me? that's why we have to speak english. otherwise we wouldn't sell any windows, you know? and the problem is that the, the just after 11, steve and helen's painters finally show up you know, the middle the

damp spots are finally going to be dealt with. the painter admits the language barrier is a problem with the local bread. so say like say, think look, good lords to do, it's just a very complicated making yourself understood of explaining that they need to clear everything away that it can take time. so there might be a delay, but we have so much work in the role is a civic so they don't really understand we're doing the home phone with the nice to meet the solutions. good. yeah, sounds good. thank you very nice. yvonne calls hockman is a financial consultant. she helps foreigners navigate the french bureaucracy. we

were we rename, i guess we went into the system. okay. yes. um we got talking to somebody and he said, he said, oh, you need to hand homes. uh, i recommend to, oh the you telling me that uh for 2023, renting out the sheet and phones is from a fiscal point of view from a legal point of view. something quite special. and i went on, you the 1st french what the, what would be important for you, that is blue castle, liberty furnished rental, the much needed introduction. the french tax and tendency law involves a lot of technical terms and exemptions. graham, however, mainly wants to know whether he'll have to take the dreaded language test today as you have a use that there is no obligation to french lessons. oh,

i see the baby's heart story to me was a so let me change that. i didn't say anything, it was really they couldn't be in my group of michael tried to make because i, i called so we've that so ready for a mess. it to the massive while the same people probably still on the sides of the site and ice. i went and did my french test and i've been given 600 compulsory i was. so what that is, i mean you to today, you go for, you'll have gone full ones, use visa and the renewal, but very likely be for now this year. ok. the people in some situations a, they go immediately false. we for yes, visa us. then there is the question of making the existing, okay. so things are little bit more complicated, ss as what you, what you might hear, but i've, i've been a mess if, believe,

room i like that when people come to england, i should learn english. so watch it when i come to proud. so i should learn french and that's the end of it. yes. to that then it's high. so i agree with that, but you will pick it up. it will really get there. so i said did context decoration, which is quite a we, it's a couple is happy to spend some money on the hand holder for us to end their confidence that once nickel a passes the language test, things will get easier. later that afternoon, the french neighbor katelyn milly, me a drops by close up this concept to him. here is this one must be ready. can you just after nickel and gram moved in cat doesn't knocked on their door and asked if she could let her horses graze on their grounds? in return, she suggested giving nicolo writing and french lessons sufficient for the day. i'm

going out with my hosting because i could see the oldest one to add holes level one. visa is the perfect solution for us because we get to have the whole series. that responsibility. that's great. and i get to learn speak french here. so in french, she's in max or max because he's picking french of course let me say when both sides are up for it, the english french relationship can work when you want to go on the right to to really of the left what the english, the wrong way your office is because uh, the valley of the what, what gosh, come to the the town of do

a lot. late afternoon by gina is serving her regulars. the steve and helen meet up with their english friends here every friday. just like they used to in the past, back in the u. k. from time to time, steve self vacant. the cafe de la pay is almost entirely british, as you know, says 3 quarters of her customers are ex pats, were called to the family and that part of bonds. everyone knows everyone here. the wrong decision was made moving across the room with all the options hours the saw that everything outside the. 2

nicholas and graham are still hard at work. nicolo works 5 hours a day, and the cars graham still has to get this ready before the 1st guests arrive in 3 weeks. a call and see any reason why i would want to go back to the guy. pretty much all the sunshine, the i'm living the dream. i really i loves from all the way really, you know, how many people go? well, i go the

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