I rewatch it over and over while I file my application this is my question why they ask for my job here in the united state, their point of contact? Thank you

For the mailing back of your documents, what documents will be sent back? Did you bring a self-addressed envelope? Can you use priority mail or FedEx (prepaid, of course). Is this envelope also for your passport or is that sent back to you separately?

Thanks, Jason. Just rewatched as I’ll be putting my visa application in by the end of the month.

Wait until you sell your house. The government is going to take 20 percent of your money. Too many taxes and rules.

I find it interesting that French people also watch your videos and comment.

I am an American citizen born abroad a duel citizen of the states and France! My father came here at the end of WWII (American army), so dad meets mom in Paris, and I was born in Paris when gay Paris was a thing (meaning a happy Paris)! Now knowing that this puts me in a weird spot because I am only French on paper I was raised on American army base which again puts me in a weird spot I am not really American! I am nether French or American I can speak French with some mistake with a small American accent, but I cannot read French to save my life, I speak American English with nearly no noticeable French accent and I can write in England with some mistake because we move almost every year to a new army base missing many months a year in school! I also get some hate from both French and American people as if I jump the railroad tracks to make fun of the side of my life. I do not hate my father and my mother because I am half of both of them equally, and I cannot hate half of what I am, and yet some people think I should pick a side, and I am now to old to care what their think of me! Here in sunny Southern France near Spain their is a Gypsies saying their are a group people with no country and no flag meaning their are welcome no where (in French it is Gitane, and it is a badge of honor to them if you say hello to them in Spanish their eat it up)! I understand their pain! Peace to you both!

Actually when we french host long-lasting diners with friends & family over, we kinda dance around the subject of leaving after a while. It's not uncommon for guests to imply (or outright say) "we should get going", and then staying a while longer just chatting around. Leaving too early can be read as 'oh, so they didn't like hanging around with us'. Hosts tend to give small cues when it's time to go, but outright requesting your guests to leave is seen as kinda impolite, especially if you're not close. There's a lot of unspoken rules when it comes to hosting or being a guest to a long diner with people you're just getting to know !

@14:12 so La guerre est déclarée 🪓 😂 I agrée with your father : it’s better off the oven, when the outside is still warm and flaky and the chocolat bar contrasting with its dark tone and solid texture.

@14:01 the inside is called la mie. Applies to bread too.

@9:52 you are not becoming a cooking judge. You are frenching up. 😊 There nothing frenchier than being picky about food and especially desserts.

@2:35 Entremets is a generic word for cakes in smaller portions. Litterally the word means "between courses", specifically after the main course and before the dessert and it has evolved into some sweet dessert. The kind that you have picked is Gateau Mousse. It is made of a some sweet foam (chocolate, fruits mousse and what not) topped in layers and the basis is a biscuit. It can be usually served as a dessert for lunch or with your hot drink in a salon de thé. It is a very technical dessert to achieve (especially if you do all from scratch). It is appreciated for the lightness of the foam contrasting with the crunchiness of the biscuit. Usually the foam is very strong to augment the contrast with the biscuit.

Your French is excellent. @0:50 "they are the same thing" lol You are taking it the other way around : those pastries are created from the same basis, la pâte à choux. They are variants indeed. They change in shapes, filling, texture and toppings. 😉 They are likely served as dessert and are appreciated for the softness and airiness. If you feel like needing more sugar, go crazy with the filling. The eclair is my favorite too and dark chocolat. If you are looking for good ones, you can try Les Eclaireurs (a wordplay with pathfinder). My personal favorite is the Lemon Pie Eclair.

Totally agree. La boulangerie and more specifically a good boulangerie is essential. Some businesses are simply Point Chaud. Basically what you have with the machine : some frozen dough shipped early in the morning and is heated up on premices whilst an artisan boulanger boasts in making it from scratch prefereably from sourced flour. You can taste the difference. I have a confession to make though : supermarkets have caught up and filled in the gap. Lidl and Franprix offer very decent pastries and pains where you can serve your self at the counter (nearly no queues and no need to get to the back of the magasin like in hypermarket like Auchan or Carrefour). In cities you will find a Pharmacie every 200 meters. No joke. About Tabac Presse, this is a peculiar proximity business that has and still is suffering from the successive bans on tabacco. So they had to re-invent themselves over the years and have been creative to offer more services. Just like you said it ranges from offering coffee to workers who start their day early in the morning to drop and pick-up packages especially with the rise of Amazon, Vinted and the likes of Mondial Relay and in response to the bad press that parcel delivery businesses have. The closest I can think of is a Japanese Combini (but no as thorough). La Poste is a long love hate relationship with French people. Formally named as PTT (Postes, télégraphes et téléphones) It used to be a publically held company (owned by the state, just like public schools) and has transition to private back in 1988. It suffers from the bureaucracy stereotype and in some places it is still vivid. Today the company is trying to find its voice. There are experimentations where they are redefining the role of the postman in our time where snail mail is declining and on the basis of a survey that revealed the postman was the second most trusted person after the medecin de famille. One of the experimentation was to have the postman use its route to check on roads and infrastructure quality and send pictures with a smartphone directly to the City Hall and report any defect. Other services of La Poste are La Banque Postale and Phone plans. I am recommending none personally. Some remains of La Poste will be found in sports clubs, l'AS PTT aka Association Sportive PTT which was very popular back in the 80s basically clubs founded by PTT's employees.

Hello from Perpignan Baguette Bound, 🌴🌞 Please try this sketch, “Vérino - Le distributeur de baguettes.” You can activate the English translation in the video window's settings: French auto-translate ⇾ auto-translate ⇾ English. Yes, the translation won't be accurate, but I think you'll understand the principle. So funny! Don't miss it. Have a pleasant day, ☮👈😎

Great interview and lots of wonderful information. Thank you to both couples. ❤️

What do the children think ? They must master the language, have friends...they built childhood memories and you know, you always stay from where you grew !

One more story: The sister of the MD I mentioned below had a daughter born with a birth defect. It wasn't a visible defect and if it hadn't been caught and treated it could have resulted in malnutrition and brain damage. As soon as they learned that she had this condition, their one thought was to find where the best place in France was to get her treatment. Everything turned out well for them. They found other parents on the Internet whose children had the same condition. Every other parents' first thought was the same as my friends... except in the USA. Here, the first thought that occupied parents' minds was, "How are we going to pay for treatment?" We're not a civilized country.

I spent two years in high school in Paris. One of my friends there became an MD and married a neurologist. One of their daughters recently attended medical school. Medical school in France is quite different than in the US in some ways. The big difference is that med school in France costs something like 2,000 euros per year in tuition. No one leaves medical school in deep debt, unlike in the US where the average debt load on completion is over $200,000. You start medical school straight out of high school. It's competitive to be admitted, but not highly competitive like US med schools. Apparently the first year is really, really hard and this is where they weed people out. Lots of students drop out or get pushed out based on how well they do. France, like every other country in the world other than the US, produces more generalist physicians than the US. Counter intuitively, this produces better health care results. Primary care is more important than specialist care and less expensive. So France produces physicians who aren't deeply in debt, covers every one who lives in France for far lower costs and produces better health outcomes. It's frequently rated the best health care system in the world.

@05:53 les soldes are an opportunity for businesses and especially clothing to get rid of their olden collection. Beware of scams : some shops pretend to reduce prices whilst they actually raised them weeks ago. Fun facts : it's only been recently less than 10 years, that shops are allowed to open on sundays during les soldes. Les soldes are the best time to go shopping especially if you are on a budget. Inversally you will find some arrogant pricks that will tell you that they never buy "en solde" Les Soldes are also an opportunity for shops to introduce new collections but they need to make it obvious that the price is not discounted.

Vacation for french pupils is 15 days every 6 weeks and almost 7 weeks during summer

Money is not our God in France.

La sécurité sociale est une conquête du gouvernement de gauche issu de la Résistance pendant la ww2. Ce système de santé publique est attaqué depuis sa création jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Les capitalistes ne supportent pas d'étre empêché de gagner plus d'argent sur le dos des malades. De plus ça coûte moins cher à tout le monde.

All this is fascinating. In 1968, when I was 15, my family moved from the US to Geneva. It was an English medium private school. I have no idea if the teachers of French were French or Swiss, but their blunt, brusque attitude to the students -- as if we were a pathetic underclass of subhumans -- stuck with me. No wonder I barely passed French. Have never needed to use it except when on holiday, like most things taught at school. Would have appreciated being taught about how to be interviewed, committee room work, and other soft skills which I needed every day when at work. School sucked...

Aw you're having such an adventure.

Il y a une vieille loi en France qui stipule que l'on ne peut refuser le pain et l'eau à quiconque. Résultat : il doit toujours y avoir une corbeille de pain et une carafe d'eau sur la table. C'est gratuit. S'ils n'y sont pas, demandez-les, on ne peut vous les refuser.

Thank you, I knew I needed to establish a logon and password and you were so very helpful.

My husband and I have begun researching a move from the U.S. to France when we retire in a few years, but the recent political changes that are taking place there have us concerned. We're seeing a strong nationalist attitude in Parliament against foreigners. Are you guys concerned at all as expats about being able to renew visas and keep your healthcare benefits?

I truly enjoy seeing how others make the most of their moves abroad and the different things you have encountered. On a different note, how do you handle the negative Nancys in the comments?

@6:07 about Ice in beverage, we think that adding ice in beverage is a scam. In our mind, it means more water than beverage and for one it undermine the original taste of the drinks. Secondly because tap water is free in restaurant (except recently at Mc Do) it feels like paying for something free.

As much as i appreciate your sharing your experience of France daily life, i can't help but think of what happened in Portugal, Porto / Lisbon post-pandemic where Californians flocked there and impacted the real estate so much that locals could not affoard living there. So I feel ambiguous about your vlogging.

In America, you can get nutritious, delicious, clean food in generous potion for affordable prices. In France, you only get greasy, tasteless food in tiny portions for an exuberant amount of money. I live on the Swiss French border, and I can't count how many times I need to go to Macdonalds for real food. They don't even pasteurise their dairy products. Some cheese even have visible molds on them, and they stink sky high.

I love your videos since I discored it. This one is nice and I agree with most of your choices but I would like to add my own ;-) I laughed a lot with the "fork and knife" section as I remember I organized with a deep countryside kids group (I am a former school teacher) a trip to Bordeaux with a lunch in a Mac Do restaurant. For most of the kids it was a first fastfood experience and for the mayor of the village who was there, sure it was the first one too !! With my teacher colleagues we had a very nice moment when we saw him pulling out his Opinel knife from his pocket for cutting his burger. Sure he thought it was the good way as he could just have kill a wild pig in the forest for eating. But now it is very common for everybody to eat with his own hands a burger, a sandwich, tacos ... Thanks for this appreciate part of the US culture. In fact, the fork invention is not so old ! It was completly usual in the old days to eat with hands and "fourchette" which means "petite fourche" was just add to the french way of eating at the royal court of Louis, I can't remember the number ;-) ... It went on the full society gradually after. I am not sure it could be invented in France. Maybe it went from another european country. The only point I completly disagree with you is the use of butter. Sure I love good butter traditionnaly made with raw milk and salt as it is made in the north west, Brittany, Pays de Loire, Charente ... I never eat butter for breakfast but I use butter for cooking which can swift with oil for better taste if you care to not burn it. I cannot imagine eating oysters or radis (I am lazy to search for the english word) without bread and butter. I loved my only one trip in the US as I met nice people on the riversides, it was a fishing trip in Utah and Oregon. But I don't have a nice memory of the food ... It is a kind way of telling it ;-) I was also very shocked by the large number of young people in an overweight situation ... It seems it would be better for exerybody if the US people follow our way of eating but sadly I think french people are rather following the US way and loose ours. Thank you for your appreciations on our differnent ways of living, to give me opportunity to train my english and once again welcome in our old country.

Improper comments, what right do YOU have to be judgemental of anyone. Please stay where you are.

I have an e sim with my old US number for the banks back there and i have an international plan in France that lets me use it in the US and 120 other countries. Total 59€ month and that is half what i paid in the US!

But you can, even alone and over 70.

I did the same in 23! I still cannot believe I do not miss my on car! I find i really do not miss much except family and a few friends.

Well said!

Even over 70 can do it alone, the best things in life do not come easily, but the effort is worth it a thousand times over.

My sentiments exactly, but I am a long way from fluency, 8 months now and i think I'm equalivalnt to a 3 year old! I am in Versailles and love it.

I am Québécois and I learned a lot a lot about the French school system. Our system in Québec is totally different.

So you have bought a house since this video came out. Are you going to be permanent residents of France now? May I ask what part of Colorado you are from? I live in southern Colorado.

I am not able to find the cerfa 15763*02 (demande d’ouverture des droits à l’assurance maladie) in an English version. Would you be able to please provide a link? Thank you! We love your videos! We’re moving over next Spring (we already own a house there) and your videos are so helpful!

I am not able to find the cerfa 15763*02 (demande d’ouverture des droits à l’assurance maladie) in an English version. Would you be able to please provide a link? Thank you! We love your videos! We’re moving over next Spring (we already own a house there) and your videos are so helpful!

Thanks!

Our HealthCare has been working for 80 years even if it is cumbersome and could be improved.

Outstanding content! And so well presented. This is the level of detail we're all looking for. So helpful for us aspiring expats!

Good, thorough video, intended for US citizens moving from the US ! Well done. As a US citizen who was already working in the EU and who became an EU citizen, my experience was somewhat different. The major point being if you move to France from another EU country where you're a citizen, rights to healthcare are "transferred" from your country of citizenship or the country where you have worked and made social contributions. This is done by having the healthcare authorities in that country complete a Form E121 (a.k.a. Form S1), and submitting this to the Assurance Maladie. Thereafter the process is much the same as you describe. I also did not need to submit apostled official records, nor translations. This might simply be a difference between the requirements of the regional offices of the Assurance Maladie, or it might be because I'm already an EU citizen. Good to note, too, that the numéro d'immatriculation issued by the Assurance Maladie is sometimes referred to as a social security number. But it is unique to the healthcare system. A different tax ID number will be issued by the French tax authority when one submits their first income tax declaration. Finally, just a reminder that one needs to go to a pharmacy annually to have them update the Carte Vitale.

Small precision for the minor children : at 16 year old they get their own carte vitale even if their are still attached to they parents bank account (at 16 a girl for example can see a doctor a for reason she does not her parents be aware of).

Bienvenue en France les amis.. ❤

Ahahah great video !! Nothing else to say than : "Bienvenue en France" :)