What regions of France we can still get a bargain in home buy?

Sure. But there are expensive areas where prices continue to rise and there are cheap areas where prices continue to fall, at least in the short to medium term.

Indeed that’s true - but the point of the map was just to give the OP a general overview of which areas of France to look at for cheaper properties. No point looking in the VIIiĂ©me Arrondissement of Paris or on Cap Ferrat. :smiley:

Thanks, Wozza. That’s very kind of you to think of me, but it’s not necessary.

Funnily enough, I do WFH at the moment but will be moving to hybrid working in the New Year. After 5 years of WFH, I am looking forward to seeing people in real life not just via my laptop screen.

Thanks again though, Wozza :blush:

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Those are two different things. I grew up in Cornwall where house prices were comparatively very cheap compared with South East England. A lot of those cheaper houses haven risen in price far more quickly than the expensive area houses since then.

I was suitably amazed when, at the very end of the conveyance meeting at the notaire she said to me, “You have paid [+/-] €8k in tax. There is a scheme to encourage more people to come to live in Calvados. Therefore you will be in receipt of a partial refund. A cheque for [+/-] €3500 will arrive before Christmas.”

Result! It paid for 3/5 the electric upgrade.

Talking of the climate in FR, Viking Jorgen and I are set to do better than we do at present, in the wnter, in Calvados [me] and DK [him].

However, I am leary of moving so far south that I’m back in the fire, come summer time, as I was in the frying pan in Valencia.

A bit of altitude goes a long way to keeping within a reasonable range in summer but we don’t want to be way up in the mountains. Any suggestions?
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Who lives ‘on this map’ and what’s the climate like, please?

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I live in the very bottom yellow PO and it is very hot here in spring and summer but we have the tramontine too and that drives people mad. No proper rain now since Mar 22 apart from a short deluge the other week but you would never know it as the rivers are still all dry as a bone and the snow is being diverted down into Spain from the mountains so a new pipeline is going to be built bringing water from the RhĂŽne as they flood a lot there.

We chose between cider country (greener, rainier, milder) and wine country (sunnier and warmer, but perhaps colder winters). We ended up North of where you’re referring to, but south of the Loire.

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Sounds like hell. I hope you found a heavenly little corner of it.

In fact that was Plan A
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Perhaps somewhere there would do the trick.

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The more research I do the more this area seems to me to be the bee’s lower limb joints as regards my move too.

Don’t worry I will pick somewhere a safe distance from wherever you end up. :smiley:

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Later this month we shall be moving from just below the green tip of Gironde that’s visible in the map to Rochefort in Charente-Maritime. Can’t wait
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Excited Gif - IceGif

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We have the makings of a Vienne Posse :scream_cat:

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I like Rochefort. It is home to one of the most beautiful industrial buildings in the world.

Quelle horreur! :smiley: :+1:

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The old Corderie? Or somewhere a bit more modern?

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That’s the one. :slightly_smiling_face:

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After more than 30 years living in FinistĂšre by the sea it has taken some of the wind out of my sails and I get quite homesick some days of not having the same green maritime climate and the wild countryside and coastline to roam about. I will never get used to the heat down here but the pull of small grandchildren whom I might have seen once per year is far stronger.

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A difficult choice Shiba. I have friends who have gone back to the UK for the same reason. They loved where they lived here and the life they had, but the pull of grandchildren was stronger.

My three children all live in South East England. If I had retired in England I would not be living in the South East so seeing them would not have been any easier or cheaper than seeing them that it has been living in France. I now have a granddaughter and the distance hasn’t proven to be a barrier to spending time with her either.
Near neighbours did move back to be nearer to their grandchildren and when the husband came back to finalise the sale of their house I asked him how it was going. He replied that they hadn’t actually seen many of the grandchildren in the first three months as both their children and the older grandchildren were all busy with their own lives.