Are we crazy?.. We're moving to France! 🇫🇷

[@paralleldimensions_E]

I came to France some 20 years ago, and since I've naturalised as a French citizen. This country has it's fair share of issues, but I cannot imagine living anywhere else!

[@BaguetteBound]

Good luck (or bon chance ! 😉) We came to France for a year too...two years ago. 😂 You're in the thick of it now...its overhelming, exciting, frustrating, exhausting, incredible....all the things! But it gets better. Wishing your family safe travels.

[@Roamaroo]

It is much harder than we thought. Currently, we're about 7 weeks in and things are tough!

[@danielcreveuil]

Dunno if Raina or Jason wrote this kind comment, for sure it's not Juliana... She w'd have written " bonne chance" 😂 chance = F gender. Hope u see I'm kidding you.

[@villainjohnnoel8075]

Hi from an Australian who came over to France for a holiday.....35 years ago....

[@KarenYokley]

We arrived October 1 in France with our dogs. Don’t worry about the dog’s paperwork. It will arrive. We are loving France.

[@Roamaroo]

You'll see in our next episode that.. yes, Lucy, our dog made it. However, on the flight over we met a family in the exact situation and unfortunately their doggo paperwork did not come in on time. So they were flying to France without their dog. 😕

[@freefinance8369]

Welcome 😊

[@Jehauvv88]

Did you keep your dogs in the cabin with you?

[@FeelGoodFrench]

Bienvenue en France! 🇫🇷 I’m so excited for you both! I’ve moved around a lot myself-10 countries in 10 years-and I totally understand the mix of emotions that come with a big move like this. Nice is an incredible choice; the lifestyle, the sunshine, and the food make it such a special place. As a French teacher, I can say it’s a beautiful journey learning the language, and it will open up so many more wonderful experiences. Take your time with it-you’re going to settle in just fine. Can’t wait to follow along with your adventure here!

[@Roamaroo]

Wow! Thank you for the kind words 😀

[@SueIsRetiringToFrance]

Congrats! I am making the move in September 2025. Learning French madly now!

[@timtarby-donald]

Just stumbled across your channel and subscribed to see how you get on. Bonne chance et bon courage!! I’m a Brit but married to a French lady and got my dual nationality at the end of 2023. Ive been visiting France for 45 yrs, spent a year at uni in Bordeaux and have owned a house in the Dordogne for 20 yrs and worked regularly there - and speak fluent French. Haven’t lived there properly yet but planning to in a few years time. Happy to help you if you need an English speaker with lots of French experience.

[@lollygee172]

I’m in France right now looking for my area. For me it’s the peace and beauty of the southwest (Dordogne/Lot/Garonne) region. The rivers speak to my soul. Good luck on your adventure!

[@Roamaroo]

Best of luck in your search too.. keep us updated how it goes.

[@Mallorca1005]

Valbonne 20 minutes in the hills north of Cannes/Nice. I moved to France back in 2001 when I was 30 years old with my dog, cocker spaniel. All worked out and I loved my 4 years there!!!

[@kendrasdustyroad]

Awesome news. My wife and I have been trying to figure out how to move to Europe for years. It's a lot of work, so congrats! Looking forward to some France videos! 🍷🇫🇷

[@Roamaroo]

It’s been a journey that we can’t wait to share !

[@kerouac2]

If Nice ends up feeling too urban and/or gritty, take a look at Montpellier. Nice is considered to be a retirement city while Montpellier is a university city with a younger vibe.

[@Roamaroo]

@@kerouac2 thanks for the recommendation. We’ll have to check Montpellier out

[@pynn1000]

@@Roamaroo Had a week in Montpellier, planned to visit several places, but public transport locally was on strike, hadn't brought driving license to hire a car! Just staying in the city, was in fact, much better. Best Indian restaurant I'd ever visited was in Montpellier - but 30 years ago.

[@AkamaiOkole]

@@Roamaroo I moved to Montpellier from NYC 7 months ago. This is a perfect city in so many ways that flies under the radar and if you need a big-city fix it's only 3 hours from either Paris or Barcelona. Best decision I ever made !! (BTW, Montpellier is the largest city in France with FREE public transportation for all its residents).

[@danmeagher9190]

Honestly a whole bunch more videos on this would be very interesting. Can’t wait for the tours of your new home and surroundings!!!!

[@sebzh2008]

Hello! It's extremely brave to embark on an adventure like yours, I wish you good luck! If I can give you one piece of advice as a French person so that you can fully enjoy your experience, it is to try to speak French... Most people won't judge you on your level of French (we know it's a difficult language to learn), but rather on your daily efforts to learn! I'm sure you'll enjoy our beautiful country!! Goodbye!

[@nfkpq]

Such an interesting talk, welcome to Europe!

[@Roamaroo]

Thank you . We’re so glad you liked it

[@ohpatriote5622]

So ... welcome in France Good choice for health and quality life. For working u must learn and practise some french language..but peoples and Associations will help you with pleaser.

[@jmbig]

En fonction des choses que vous faites venir, il peut être intéressant d'utiliser un container maritime pour vos voitures, vos meubles, etc ... Mais en dehors des ordinateurs, des téléphones, des appareils photos ... Et de ce genre de choses ... Le gros électroménager (réfrigérateur, cuisinière, machine à laver ..) ne doit pas être amené car il ne fonctionnera pas en france car nous n'avons pas la même tension ni la même fréquence de courant électrique qu'aux USA ... Et normalement, comme il s'agit d'un déménagement vous ne devriez pas être taxé sur vos biens ... Mais à vérifier avec les douanes, avant de venir, bien entendu ... 😁

[@pif3136]

bienvenue en France pour toute la famille... et même bienvenue au chien....

[@syllb7234]

Welcome in France..

[@laurentsalomonoriginals3438]

Bienvenue en France !

[@jeromegastan2887]

Welcome to France ❤

[@amusingaida]

Hey, bon courage for your French adventure. You're certainly doing it all in a positive mindset, embracing the fun of it all. What a great, enlivening experience. A couple of things (that you may have already thought of): taxes -- be aware your global earnings will be taxed by France (give or take the items that are handled by the US-France tax treaty, such as rental income) so you may find a chunk of revenue is taken away before you even pay taxes (for health, welfare, pension); also if Scott is planning on becoming French in the future (5 years of living and paying taxes in France) it would be a good idea to base income generation in France, not the US, to show that France is the center of your economic activity. And to join a local association (a charity maybe). You'll need to change your driving licenses over within a year (and a good idea to have an international driving permit with your US license, or get a French translation done be a legal translator for that first year) - best to do that earlier rather than later because otherwise after a year it's considered you have no license at all. French banks can be picky about taking on US citizens because of IRS reporting obligations that cost them €2K+ a year. Online banks are great (and cheaper) but to get one you usually need an old-fashioned EU bank account first. It would be a good idea for you guys to get an SNCF carte avantage for families (the discount on train tickets is worth it). So many other little things... maybe I'll do a video on all that sometime...

[@dominicschmitz8636]

You should get crackin on that Carte Vitale as soon as you qualify (or before). It took me one year to get it and in the meantime you have to pay for everything yourself. There is the option to claim it back, but it’s an administrative nightmare.

[@msublet]

Bienvenue en France🇫🇷

[@tomtom9184]

Nice, I spent a month in Nice while on sabbatical. I walked so much, you just can't not walk along the beach every evening. I liked Paris even more. Enjoy that too, you won't be sorry.

[@chiaraA.]

Here's a fun fact - I just moved to France and needed that health certificate within the 10 day window. It was so down to the wire with the federal agency that they allowed me to literally drive to their office (I was in the bay area and they were also in the bay area though a bit far from me) and let me pull up to their secret location, and handed me the certificates. Another fun fact - NO ONE asked to see the health certificates with me taking my two cats in the cabin for my flight. Not getting on - in the US, not exiting customs in France. I think on either end they assumed the other had checked them out. No so. lol!

[@elsenm3965]

Remember that in France school start at 3 years old !

[@martel56]

Nice is surely, along with Paris, the most expensive city in France, as has been suggested to you, if you want to stay in the sun and in a big city and close to the sea: Montpellier, Aix-en-Provence, Nimes, Perpignan or still in the South but on the Atlantic side, Bordeaux.

[@robintillotson5665]

Would you mind sharing the language app you use. I heard Duolingo, but couldn’t catch the other one.

[@Roamaroo]

Yes. It’s called “language transfer”!

[@robintillotson5665]

@@Roamaroo thank you so much!

[@didierlacroix6488]

Hi, 65 years old French guy here. Welcome to our beautiful country for the whole family and the doggy . Nice is certainly a gorgeous city , but like Paris it is overrated ( tourist trap ) . life in my country is not like " Emily in Paris " I can assure you, it is much more than that . like in Paris, property or rent prices are over the roof. If you are looking for a good family life, I would advise you any other place in France and it's a big country. also be prepared to a big culture shock : French people speak French in France. How dare we ?? Lol so you'd better be prepared to the language barrier and not rely on the anglosphere community living in France who are completely hopeless . don't expect French people to speak English greetings from France . A bientot de vous retrouver dans vos aventures d'immigration dans notre beau pays. soyez les bienvenus

[@minischembri9893]

C'est si vrai ! Not sure if I should call them naive. Greetings from Germany.

[@RaySqw785]

"its a big country" non tu ne peux dire ça à un muricain, Nice n'est pas vraiment le piège à touriste sur la cote d'azur, y'en a plein d'autres, l'arriere pays est trés sympa

[@josefpoukine]

Je ne sais pas pourquoi tu leur dit de ne pas s'attendre à ce que les français parlent anglais alors que rien dans leur vidéo ne suggère cela. D'ailleurs ils ont commencés à apprendre la langue avant même de partir. Pareil pour emily in paris, pourquoi balancer des clichés gratuits comme ça. Ils se sont clairement bien informés avant de venir de ce que je vois personnellement. //////// Anyway welcome in France hopefully you can get through the tough settling phase.

[@RaySqw785]

@@josefpoukine tu devrais les accompagner aux cours de français, ça devrait te faire du bien ;)

[@josefpoukine]

@@RaySqw785 merci pour cette suggestion d'une utilité inestimable

[@anzo06]

welcome in france, i live in valbonne and half people in my son school are brits lol

[@marjorieorveau6707]

To integrate and feel at home here, you need to speak French; that will open so many doors... Bienvenus!

[@bessonnet]

The next challenge will be speaking French 😊

[@Roamaroo]

And it's a TOUGH one!

[@rhdrhd3255]

or arabic mdr

[@wora1111]

​@Roamaroo Not really hard, hundreds of thousands of babies learn French every year, so, if you want to be able to understand your child, get going.

[@RaySqw785]

bravo à vous, Nice is dynamic, economicly, culturaly etc... and the best is you can step out into the wild and discover les lapes maritimes quicly, villages, and ski no so far in winter, go to italy quicly, the best of both world

[@freefinance8369]

Don't worry about the language (especially in Nice) if you have children. French schools have the experience of finding solutions and adapting to help children progress. Ukrainian children who arrived in 2022 after the war, now express themselves perfectly in French.

[@loustic59vda]

Too many american people who want to move to France, get focus too much on Paris area and Azur coast for moving. Bad idea I think !

[@phillipphil1615]

Quite true, I'm on the Atlantic coast in a nice village. But I don't advertise it 🙂

[@christopheveldeman9204]

Yes, these are actually the worst choices 😂 !

[@ringsaphire]

Yeah, well... I figured from official statistics about inflation, USA as a tourist in 2024 would be overall 39% more expensive than it used to be in 2018 when I went there for the first time. Turned out, for the same level of traveling expense I did back then it cost me 12 hundred a week instead of $600, that's double! So when you say 17% less expensive overall... basically it's your minimum, because from most cases I've seen, quality of life for the same salary is 66% cheaper in France vs USA - unless your income reaches > $100K and above for a household. Past $150k ($75k each) it would be even and after that French taxes will teach you why our upper classes are complaining :p But that's only until you learn to game the french tax loopholes (so many of them), after that you'll be complaining on principle only.

[@stattravels8109]

CrossFit!!!!

[@Roamaroo]

😂😂😂 yep... that's our guilty pleasure

[@ariannewdnotbe]

It’s odd that you were told that the spouse of an EU citizen can’t get a visa in the U.S. it’s definitely possible for the spouse of a French citizen-I am one of those. Perhaps it is different for non-French EU citizen spouses. You’ll probably have to pass a language proficiency exam. The 🇫🇷 government will offer you classes.

[@pynn1000]

You're young, you'll pick up the language. I learned French too late to ever speak it without an accent, but my teenage grandsons are true bilinguals. You'll meet great people, and A-holes, like everywhere in the world. Only $25 to see a general doctor outside big cities without insurance. Pompiers (Fire service - phone 15) for first aid as well as fires, are free and excellent.

[@freefinance8369]

Welcome to my région 😊 I hope you will ask for French citizenships.

[@Briochepepites]

So Free healthcare, free/subsidised childcare and schooling. How are you contributing to the system you'll be taking from? because many French people contribute substantial amounts of their salaries for the services you'll be taking from.

[@kath6720]

I have a serious question. Why are you all moving to my country? 😂😂😂 I’m glad you are but why ???

[@Roamaroo]

Great question.. It comes down to a few things. 1. we can because Collette has her italian citizenship. and our jobs allow it. 2. why not? We have this opportunity to try something new and experience a different culture. It will also allow our daughter, and hopefully us to learn a new language. And why France? Because France is amazing!

[@wora1111]

​@Roamaroo It will be interesting to see how you feel after some time. Europe puts the emphasis more on the rules how people (should) live in harmony. In the USA it is more about the rights of the individuals. It takes time to get used to that. Somebody once put it like this: "An Americans 'stands his ground' and Europeans make room for you.

[@scrappedlives]

I will never understand why people move to a country without speaking the language! And no, you are not expats, you are immigrants, like any other person from abroad who comes to live in Europe.

[@Pensées_depuis_mon_balcon]

Coming with the intent to stay is immigration (me), but arriving for a short stay with the intention of leaving is more accurately described as being an "expat". Calling yourself an "expat" signals your intention not to integrate and that you are temporary and planning to leave.

[@martel56]

immigrant: is a person who generally does not have a job when he arrives and who is not necessarily in a regular situation and who does not have the resources to get by on his own. the expatriate, he has made his steps in accordance with the rules and has a work project to provide for his needs.

[@scrappedlives]

I think you all should check your dictionaries!

[@daseteam]

Nice, France. LOL

[@Cougnamama-el1dp]

Times have changed, many French people are considering leaving France, because of insecurity, the highest taxes in the world, uncontrolled immigration, administrative headache ... anyway Welcome.

[@cyruschang1904]

No, you're not crazy. You are still on the planet Earth.

[@PastorTom2009]

Tell me you’re not putting your daughter in day care for 10 hrs a day when you don’t have to

[@Roamaroo]

When we got to France we decided against it. We found a lovely nanny who takes care of her in the morning and we're with her in the afternoon.

[@fablb9006]

I am not sure it is a good plan to move to France nowadays. Thé country has huge problems

[@georgeszurbach444]

You will struggle as you dont speak french.Everything will be way more complicated and increase the frustration. People speak French in France .So first thing to do when you arrive learn french.By the way there are no expats in France only immigrants.

[@josefpoukine]

Yes there are expats in France maybe you could learn the definition. They are working for their american company while in France and that's the nuance. Also they're going to Nice which deals with enormous amounts of foreign tourists every year so the language barrier is not as bad as going to a random village in the countryside.

[@georgeszurbach444]

@@josefpoukine you have no idea about what you are talking about do you ?

[@gabelov]

Non Georges. There are expats in France. You can't compare this nice american couple with an average african migrant. They will be fine with their english.

[@georgeszurbach444]

@@josefpoukine Are they not back to the US having failed in France ?

[@josefpoukine]

@@georgeszurbach444 indeed they are 😂 main issue was an unforeseen pregnancy apparently

[@niaraa8378]

welcome in the lavender fields of Provence. donc forget your olive oil and to speak with your hands like all the true mediteraneans!

[@Mallorca1005]

Valbonne 20 minutes in the hills north of Cannes/Nice. I moved to France back in 2001 when I was 30 years old with my dog, cocker spaniel. All worked out and I loved my 4 years there!!!