Très jolie petite maison , mais il faut aimer la solitude et avoir le permis de conduire…. ❤

Congrats on your beautiful home, can't wait to see what you will do with it! Where can I see your renovations on your beautiful home?

Looks amazing!

Dear Stonehouse Life, May I ask 8n what town/région this is? And do you plan to spend your time there for vacations throughout the year or all year long?

Beautiful house!

Can Americans move to France without citizenship? What about health care? And pets.

Your house looks very cute from the outside. Why do you not show us the inside? It would be nice to see it.

Having made a similarly lucky purchase in US, I'm curious about the wildlife on your property. I know a lot of the forageables and poison plants in US but am curious about the ones there that you have to watch out for. Could you share that and also who you recommend for the home search process? Thank you.

Thank you for taking us for a walk with you and getting a look at the area you live and your home. I totally agree with the previous comment from peterjones4497, it is very busy, give me France any day xx

It looks a lovely area. But compared to France it’s so busy with traffic.

Muito obrigada por compartilhar seu passeio. O bairro é muito bonito e tranquilo. Como está a Bernice?? Ela se recuperou da cirurgia?? Saudações do Brasil!❤

Hi, nice to get a new video. Your environment is beautiful, lot of cars of course, but lovely trees. Are you in a HOA ? Some seem very abusive.

So lovely! No wonder Americans don't realize they're now in a fascist country. So sad as Trump would say. see you in France!

Very lovely neighborhood. Would be interested in seeing a tour of your California cottage. TY

Lovely area with all the trees 😊

Your hometown is so pretty. Here is my question, why do you like France. I follow you and all of the other Chateau KZbin channels, but it seems uncomfortably cold/hot poor internet, to exist in France. What am I missing?

Lovely video. Music is too loud for the narration.

Where is this house located?

Could you vacuum up the chestnuts with a portable shop vac?

❤très belle maison merci à tous salut 😅

Thank you for sharing! Could you please let me know what backpack you got for Bernice? I am looking for pretty much the same for my dog.

Hi, would love to connect. I live in the East Bay and just bought a small mobile home in Abzac to use as a base to start my search for a home in South France.

It's nice to see you living your life to the fullest! I wish I could do the same. How is Bernice? See you soon

I enjoyed your video tremendously… So serene… How wonderful. I m interested in learning more about the process of buying a home there. How did you find it? What is the process of buying an old home in France? You make it look so inviting and peaceful. I love the process of refurbishing. I wish you all the best😊🌻

🐞🎈💚 Wow what a beautiful 🐞 place.. 💚greetings from Lago Constanze

Hi, we love your videos. We are in the proccess of moving to France in January 2025 not too far from where you are. Our place is in the Indre Department about 15 minutes from Chateau Lalande. We do have a question regarding Banks. We know is not that easy for Americans to open an account due to FATCA regulations, can you share which bank you were able to open yours? It be of great help for when we get there. Be nice to meet you guys when you get back to France !!

Interesting. Being French, I am surprised by 2 things : The distance between the rows of vines is much wider that I'm used to see in France. As there is not enough space for machinery, we use special tractors called "enjambeur" (Google translate tells me "Straddle Tractor" ?) that go over one or two rows. Vine irrigation. It is heavily regulated in France. (we like so much regulations 🙂). For some Quality wines "Appellation Contrôlée" , it's forbidden from May 1rst until harvest but for most of the "Appellation Contrôlée" it is just completely stricly forbidden as it is considered bad for wine quality. It is becoming a problem with the frequent droughts due to climate change.

I also live in California and love watching you

What a lovely place. You are lucky both sides of the Atlantic.

What a magnificent vineyard, glad you were able to get the tractor out with minimal fuss. Fixing those drippers is obviously a full time job with all those kms of irrigation hoses. Thank you for sharing your family's vineyard with us all xx

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Limoges is not such a little town for French standards. It has over 130 000 inhabitants !!! It is as sad as they make them and real estate is very inexpensive. It is not « in France » that people have lunch at 12 and dinner at 7pm, it is only in the French « province ». In cities like Paris, Lyon, etc, habits are less old fashioned, lunch is rather 1pm and dinner 8 or 8:30pm.

What price » ? Where ? Intermarché is a chain of supermarket/hypermarket stores, not a grocery shop. Intermarché sells industrial food. Open air markets and individual shops sell the real thing. Furthermore food is more expensive in Paris than in the countryside. It is ridiculous to speak about « price in France ». There are many many prices for the same thing. As to camembert if it is au lait cru it will be double the price compared to industrial camembert. Eggs ? what size ? what freshness ? organic or not ? Butter : President is industrial butter, not good butter. Chicken ? There is not one price for chicken, but many, according to the quality. The comparison you make is perfectly RIDICULOUS and has no sense at all. Very stupid.

The main problem of France is the language barrier, the French do not want to speak English, German. It is very difficult for foreigners to integrate in France. So the problem is not the cost of a house for e100K or e50K or e500K, the problem is the attitude of the French to foreigners who do not speak French. The French simply despise foreigners.

Great video!

Be a peanut butter distributor here. Please. If you rented it creates havoc with your taxes in France. Great video. Spot-on with accurate info. Enjoy your time in the US.

I think you are mistaken about the American speaker! He definitely wasn't a guide from the factory since he couldn't name in English what he was showing!

C'est effrayant de voir l'ignorance en action ! Madame Vie de Pierre française ! C'est un manque de savoir-vivre que de ne pas faire l'effort de bien prononcer le nom en français de Thomas! Ce sont des Américains, que peut-on espérer de plus ?

If you come back to Haute-Vienne in the fall and you like hiking in the great outdoors, I recommend you do the megaliths circuit in the Monts de Blond between the towns of Blond and Cieux. It is about twenty kilometers west of Saint-Pardoux. It is in the fall that the trees are the prettiest!

Bonjour! Have you found that Air France has a weight limit for cabin pets (including the carrier)? We have a Norwegian Forest Cat, and he weighs 27 lbs (sans carrier). Great video! Thank you for sharing!

It's a pleasure to welcome such nice and interesting people in France. The slow pace of life is, of course, a lot due to being in a small village in a very rural part of France. The life is completely different in the Paris or Marseille area. 9 years ago, I left the Paris area to live in a small town in the Southern French Alps : my quality of life has so much improved. Which parts of France have you already visited ? You should visit some vineyards in France to make the comparison with California. By the way : nice rabbit lamp in the background !

I recognized my question #2 - I'm sure others were also curious as to how you afforded to purchase a house in France and travel back & forth. Appreciate you sharing how it's possible. California is a more expensive state to live in from what I've seen and heard. I'm in Florida, and it's expensive here in some areas compared to other states but not as costly as Calif. Down sizing a large house for 2 smaller ones sure seems like a great trade off. How interesting you're connected to a vineyard and you get to visit and help out with the process. I would like to see more of the vineyard, surrounding areas and your Calif. home. Temps' - here in Florida, this summer, we had many days with the heat index over 100 degrees with 100 percent humidity.

So lovely to meet other sensible middle class educated curious folks who take the time to relate to us a virtual crowd of friends. Merci de votre générosité ❤🍍🍀

I had a beautiful limoges set of porcelain that I bought from a doctor friend of mine when he got divorced and had a yard sale. It was in the Princess Haviland pattern and i absolutely loved it! It had these delicate pink rose buds and it was lovely. I had some of the dinner service, plates, saucers, cups, etc., but my prized possession was the Princess Haviland chocolate set. It was a hot chocolate set with the chocolate pot that looked very much like a typical vintage style coffee pot. And it included the small hot chocolate cups and saucers. Unfortunately someone broke into our house that we had closed up and had the power turned off because we were going to be away for several months, and we did not know how long. Our 2yr old grandson had just been diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia. We closed up the house because we had rented an apartment in Atlanta to be close to our daughter and grandchildren so we could be near them and help out while our grandson went through 3.5 years of chemo and radiation. Then our neighbor called one night after we had been in Atlanta about 3 or 4 months, which was about two and half hours from the small town where we lived, and he told us that the fire department had just left our house. That someone had broke into the house and started a fire in the middle of our living room, we had no fire place. Apparently, or maybe I should say, supposedly, a homeless person broke into our house and started a fire in the middle of the living room, that spread up into the attic and basically burned our house to the ground. And of course it burned all of our belongings, our antiques and collectibles, which included my beloved antique limoge Princess Haviland chocolate set and dinner service.

We would like to have a tour of your house in the US"

Thank you very much for your q & a video ver enjoyable. I love your videos so calming, you a delightful couple ❤️

hello to all three. I'm surprised. I always thought it was complicated or even impossible to bring food to the United States. I thought that for butter it was therefore prohibited. quite a few years ago now, I took the opportunity to visit a friend in Canada to bring him a bottle of Laurent Perrier 1995 champagne, not necessarily easy to find there, or at a prohibitive price, I had kept with me in the cabin. a bygone era. This type of souvenir from France for your aunt might have pleased her. However, I don't know if it's allowed to bring alcohol to the United States. Apart from butter, did you bring anything else ?

In sweden u can buy a 33 kvm apartament in deep mountain vilage with 100 000 dollar.😊

I have 2 questions about the France side of your life: 1) What was it like viewing potential properties on your own? You've mentioned your agent on the one that you bought, but did you have a local, expert set of eyes with you who could point out things and say "that's going to cost you 10K to fix, don't worry about this other thing"? You've said Michael is an engineer, but (sorry Michael) that doesn't necessarily make him qualified to identify a septic problem that might have been a bad decision. My worry is that diagnostic reports aren't enough to weed out the ones that are just not worth fixing up which is why we have buyer's agents here. 2) How much mail do you receive to your French home and how would it be handled if the commune/dept/govt sent you some important time-sensitive document while you're back in the States?

You definitely are more french than american about life style ! May be that is why you fit so well in your country stone house.