Archive for: July 2007

July 3, 2007

Always one more piece of paper

Filed under: French life, Living in France, Personal - 03 Jul 2007

Whatever you do in France, from registering a car to getting married - you will need many pieces of paper to prove who you are, where you live, what you do and what you earn. But not only this, you …

How to measure the wealth of a country

If the wealth of a country is measured in balance of payments, or how much gold is in bank vaults, then perhaps France is not rich ( although for a long time French people have been stashing away cash …

July 1, 2007

Are property prices in Languedoc still rising

I was going to title this “are property prices in France falling” and I left off the question mark as it messes up technical things. I changed the title to Languedoc because France has so many regional variations I …

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