What you need to know before you move to France from USA, family tax matters, useful websites for cinephiles, and a few of the country’s weirder festivals.
Whether you’re thinking of moving for work, for political reasons — and the French are very sympathetic to Americans’ situation — or for love (of a person or of croissants), here’s our checklist of how to move to France as an American.
Checklist: How to move to France as an American
Is there a legal way of avoiding inheritance tax in France by passing your property onto your children while you’re still alive?
Can you sign over your French property to your children without paying tax?
The rules for those in receipt of unemployment benefits — chômage — have recently been tightened up, including around leaving the country. Here’s what you need to know.
Reader question: Can you leave France if you are on chômage?
This is good: keen cinephiles — and, if you are, check out these listings of French films with English subtitles you can catch in Paris in February — might find this French website useful. It has all the VOST / VF information you need…
La Bobine: The website to find all the movie showtimes in France
France is home to hundreds of festivals every year, from small local celebrations to internationally renowned events such as the Strasbourg Christmas market, Nice Carnival and the Lyon Fête des lumières. But there are other festivals that are, frankly, a bit strange.
Bears, lemons and pig-squealing: 10 of France’s strangest festivals
Going car-free is perfectly possible in the large cities like Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux which have excellent public transport. In smaller towns and the countryside, however, poor public transport connections mean that in many parts of France, a car is vital for everyday life…
Do you really need a car to live in rural or small-town France?