Kamille, you and Sean have done an amazing public service by your writing about your move and re-establishing yourselves, your kids, careers and ambitions all in a short three years. Kinda astonishing, really. Love reading about your adventures and knowing you are living a good life in France. It’s a brave and crazy wonderful thing you kids have pulled off!
Thanks for the deeper look at what it actually takes to move from the comfort of the Known, to a country with many pluses and a different language. If I were 1) younger 2) had a partner 3) had a salable asset that was not illegal, France sounds like a wonderful alternative to the overstimulated chaos that America has become. I believe this puts me in the visitors category.
To the point, and forgotten/ romanticised by most. A holiday is not living there fulltime. My kids went to the International school, we moved a lot inyercontinental, their school had to be stable. Discrimination is a thing, though France is pretty laid back. University personnel usually speaks English, it could be totally gibberish because they never spoke it. I never got the hang of tonal languages. And slang is its own thing. Some cultures are like France, we come, but don't know when. Other say yes, do no, and you later find out they said yes to all. I remember standing in Carre Four and seeing the section of gluten free produce. Rows and rows, four paths deep. Heaven. Non alcohol, non? Mon Dieu. Oh well. One day you get the hang of it, Camille. One day.😉
Kamille, you and Sean have done an amazing public service by your writing about your move and re-establishing yourselves, your kids, careers and ambitions all in a short three years. Kinda astonishing, really. Love reading about your adventures and knowing you are living a good life in France. It’s a brave and crazy wonderful thing you kids have pulled off!
Thanks for the deeper look at what it actually takes to move from the comfort of the Known, to a country with many pluses and a different language. If I were 1) younger 2) had a partner 3) had a salable asset that was not illegal, France sounds like a wonderful alternative to the overstimulated chaos that America has become. I believe this puts me in the visitors category.
To the point, and forgotten/ romanticised by most. A holiday is not living there fulltime. My kids went to the International school, we moved a lot inyercontinental, their school had to be stable. Discrimination is a thing, though France is pretty laid back. University personnel usually speaks English, it could be totally gibberish because they never spoke it. I never got the hang of tonal languages. And slang is its own thing. Some cultures are like France, we come, but don't know when. Other say yes, do no, and you later find out they said yes to all. I remember standing in Carre Four and seeing the section of gluten free produce. Rows and rows, four paths deep. Heaven. Non alcohol, non? Mon Dieu. Oh well. One day you get the hang of it, Camille. One day.😉
This is brilliantly honest. Well done, Kamille.