It’s not easy to buy a car in France as an expat. And it’s certainly not easy with the added pressure of needing a car immediately. We had no plans of buying a car in France. We briefly entertained the idea of shipping over our Audi from the US, but quickly ditched that idea. The … Continue reading How to buy a used car in France as an expat
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Now, with our search area increased to cover a larger area of Nantes proper, we started to pull up houses and apartments that ticked some of the boxes we had. Must-haves got relegated to “nice-to haves” and new boxes got added to the list. It was a very stressful time. Frantic emails and texts and conference calls to our house-hunting agency, hours of online searching, a decision to increase our monthly rental budget, all to find a seemingly impossible place to live. We had no idea it would be so competitive and that there’d be so few properties.
Don’t pronounce the S in Nantes
Where the heck is Nantes?
Welcome to the town of Mazières-en-Mauges
How we ended up in Cholet for our first month in France
Cholet and our first month in France
March 2022, when we started our lives as expats in France.