"David (Normandy)" wrote in message
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Their experiences, like yours, are personal and not everyone's.

Mary

It's square pegs and round holes or round pegs and square holes, each
needs to be in the right place.
For us, living in the middle of nowhere is marvellous, we are happy with
our own company with barely another soul to talk to. Some city loving
Brits come here and foolishly buy a house in rural France and then long
for the hustle and bustle of city life. Each to their own :-)

Living in the middle of nowhere would be marvellous for us too - except that
we've both benefited from centres of medical excellence within walking
distance. If we'd been in the middle of nowhere I wouldn't now have a
husband.

I used to hate the morning / evening commutes to and from Nottingham city
centre, rush hour on the A52(?) and ring road. It only took one traffic
accident on the M1 and it could take two hours to drive in to work. Public
transport was too disjointed and always took two hours to get in to work
anyway with a 20 minute walk, train, then bus to get to work. It was
somewhat better when I got a motorbike and could drive down the middle of
the road through the stationery traffic :-)

You chose the job.

The local supermarket used to be Asda and the car park full with people
shuffling round and round waiting for a space to appear. Tempers used to
flare and people got quite aggressive. The spaces were too narrow too - I
used to get irritated at the number of people who just flung their car
doors open straight into my car.

I wouldn't shop in Asda for other reasons.

Sitting in traffic jams used to be a way of life for me in England. While
there are apparently traffic jams here, we've haven't been in one since
moving here two years ago. Probably because of our rural location. Oddly
we did have one minor mishap last year - I parked our van in the
Intermarche supermarket one quiet day leaving the space empty between mine
and someone else's vehicle. There were only around 10 cars in the entire
car park capable of holding 100's. We were just walking into the store and
a driver attempted to reverse into the space between mine and the other
vehicle and crashed straight into mine damaging the bumper. Why park
there? The car park was virtually empty - so why reverse into the only
narrow space in the entire car park?

Perhaps he knew you were English?

Not all Frenchfolk like us.

Mary

David.