Béziers, France

France’s Beckoning Town of Béziers: internationall...
Located near the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Occitanie region of Southern France, Béziers is surrounded by almost 1,158 miles of vineyards. The town lies at the heart of the largest wine-producing region in the world and is brimming with historical sites.
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[@christinemcbride9240]

I came to live in Beziers at the end of 2013. Although, at the time, it was a drab, sad, tired old city, it was obvious that there was so much history and potential for the future. I'm now so happy to be part of the city centre village, and although Manchester will always be my home town, Beziers is a sunny, cheap, up and coming retirement haven, with everything 10 minutes walk, or less, away, and we have our own international airport, about 20 minutes from the town centre. Robert Menard, rightist or not, has worked wonders for this town, and is a regular part of the community. From an old Marxist, that's a big compliment. Vive Menard, le smart renard!

[@elrevah]

Well, nothing surprising: A lot of Marxists were assholes and murders as well. Tons of former Marxists became assholes later anyway as well, lol.

[@dystopiaeatsmoney]

Are you still in Beziers? I moved here with my French family during Christmas 2020 and would love to meet other english speaking people. I do speak French but I just miss laughing and communicating in English.

[@glorygrosso8589]

Visiting in December and I want to move there; any ex pat pubs or resturants that you can name?

[@paulhurt8688]

Consider moving back to Manchester, old Marxist, or, if you can, to Italy, Greece or some other sunny place without the disgusting cruelty of the bullfight. See my comment above for additional information.

[@metalbelles3662]

@@paulhurt8688 she's welcome to. Live in beziers

[@lucygodwinart5961]

I adore Beziers and thanks for this lovely little video. The Mayor M. Menard has transformed the town of Beziers and done a tremendous amount of good there.

[@dr.franciscotorresmarquezc7352]

Coucou need some help! I love windsurfing and Im looking to move woth my wife and two kids to the mediterranean coast of France. I work internationaly by home work so we're looking for a very nice city, safe with nice beaches, friendly, with good schools and health in case of urgencies. Where would you recomend? Beziers? Montpellier? Perpignan? Or some smaller city next too. Hope you can lend me a hand. Thanks a lot

[@elrevah]

Ménard is a populist, racist agitator in times of confusion. Let's hope that Bézier's people won't suffer too much on the long term. Ah, I just read today that he may be involved in a corruption affair, how surprising...

[@celineb1673]

@@elrevah we are very happy with the mayor in Béziers he was reelected with a very high score, we are now very proud of our city

[@celineb1673]

@@dr.franciscotorresmarquezc7352 near Narbonne, in Gruissan, a famous windsurf spot windy and a long beach, I don't like Montpellier and it's not a safe city but Béziers become nicer each year, thanks to the new mayor, at 30mn from Béziers there is another famous spot on the étang de Thau in Marseillan, I love to practice paddle over there, it's great !

[@celineb1673]

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[@ChileExpatFamily]

Very beautiful. I enjoyed my time living and working in France. Jim

[@miam3568]

Thanks i live here

[@rorysmith2415]

Looks a beautiful place.

[@eliaspatarro8080]

Preciosa ciudad, ojalá pueda verla en vida

[@jamessmith14000]

Hi, my name is Michael. I lived in Béziers for three months back in 2017. So much fun there. It's the oldest continental European city -- beaches, mountains, forests are all like 20-30 minutes away. And L'orb River is like right there. It's built way up on a hill and has a farmer's market every Thursday. I so so so loved living in this city.

[@givemorematengambiri3685]

Does it snow there

[@jamessmith14000]

@@givemorematengambiri3685 I was there October, November and December 2017 and it had not snowed anywhere near the city. Béziers is not far from the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea so it's always a tad warmer there. Plenty of snow nearby in the mountains though!

[@titteryenot4524]

Beziers is one of those countless mid-sized French towns that are worth seeing but you might think twice about actually *going* to see. I was keen. Two main reasons: it’s southern and it has a fairly extensive Old Town. These two attributes, along with my innate francophilia, got me there. When you hail from somewhere north of the 55th parallel, trust me, any place south of the 45th reeks of ‘exotic’. Hence, Beziers, a mildly interesting mid-sized city, but crucially of *southern* France and with a quite decent-sized and little-known Old Town had me at ‘visit me!’. Sure, the lumbering cathedral resembles a rather ugly fortress-like thing, and it lacks decent, open squares, but who cares?, when you have gorgeous, fading, colourful tumbledown houses basking in the Mediterranean sun, while the cicadas are providing the buzzing soundtrack? What’s also attractive about Beziers is the fact that it’s resolutely a living, working town, with all the messiness that implies. Blacks, whites, and every colour in between, Christians, Muslims, and every faith and no faith, rich, poor, and every middle-ranking drone, all intermix in this true French melting-pot. Tension is sometimes often palpable, but for the passing visitor, the overall impression is favourable. Bonus? If you tire of Beziers, in Pezenas, 20 miles up the road, you have (France has) one of the most beautiful small medieval towns not just in France, but on this planet.

[@alexfernandohuenten1374]

Awesome

[@ultimasopciones5303]

Saludos, quien vive en Beziers o Narbonne, o sus alrededores?

[@dr.franciscotorresmarquezc7352]

Coucou need some help! I love windsurfing and Im looking to move woth my wife and two kids to the mediterranean coast of France. I work internationaly by home work so we're looking for a very nice city, safe with nice beaches, friendly, with good schools and health in case of urgencies. Where would you recomend? Beziers? Montpellier? Perpignan? Or some smaller city next too. Hope ypu can lend me a hand. Thanks a lot

[@elrevah]

I would say Montpellier, don't know why.

[@dr.franciscotorresmarquezc7352]

@@elrevah thanks

[@christianeguillon5164]

30 minutes de parking gratuit c est juste le mieux ce serait une heure merci

[@elisabethdakak878]

En effet, 30 minutes est peu de temps

[@bilalmeziane]

J'ai besoin de boulot dans le village, n'importe le quelle je suis informaticien je maîtrise très bien l'outil informatique, je m'adapte facilement et je peux tout faire 😭

[@vertuchoux5177]

La mer à 15 km, et de nombreux internationaux de rugby, avant les années argent et anabolisants...

[@paulhurt8688]

La Route de Sang (ou La route de Cruauté), nouvelle route touristique - la découverte des paysages et des patrimoines matériel et immatériel d' une région, le Sud de la France - qui offre soleil, vin, gastronomie, beauté - et la cruauté horrible de la corrida. Bayonne, Carcassonne, Béziers, Nîmes, Arles et autres villes: la honte de la France. La corrida: écrasez l'infâme! You seem to have overlooked one thing (in actual fact, far more than one thing, but I'll concentrate on one thing), the fact that Béziers is a bullfighting town, that here, animals are stabbed repeatedly, first by the lance of the picador, then with the banderillas, the animal becoming weaker with each stabbing, losing blood with each stabbing, until the weakened animal oozing blood from every wound has to face the sword of the matador - which far more often than not fails to kill the animal outright. The animals, the bulls, of course, are seen time after time with the matador's sword embedded in their backs, until receiving one more blow, or multiple blows, with a further weapon. The animal dies slowly. This is a spectacle unworthy of a civilized country, a shame not just for Béziers, the South of France, France as a whole - and, of course, for Spain - but, it could be said, for European civilization. People of Béziers, people who visit Béziers - the people who attend bullfights and support bullfights, that is - have you no shame? Europe has so many other places to live, so many other places to visit. There are so many interests and activities not involving horrific cruelty - opera, reading, football, climbing, gardening and obviously many, many more. Nobody is compelled to attend bullfights. Leave bullfights to people with severely limited horizons. Leave this dismal town to people with severely limited horizons. This is a sun-drenched town which will certainly satisfy the needs of bloodthirsty visitors but not of humane people. Visitors - consider the attractions of Italy, which has the sun and the heat without the animal cruelty. Why anyone would want to move to such a place as Béziers is beyond my comprehension.

[@christinemcbride9240]

Hello Paul. I always avoided the Feria De Beziers when I lived there, and finally, after almost 8 years, due to this, plus other problems with unwarranted tax demands, and general lack of friendliness, I have returned to the UK, where I am so happy to be, at home with my friends and family. The only thing I miss is the sunshine, but weighed against other advantages, that's not important.

[@paulhurt8688]

I thank you most warmly for your reply, Christine. I thought I'd give quite a detailed response. I'm glad that you avoided the Feria de Béziers when you lived there and glad that you're happy back here and that you put the disadvantage of the British weather in context - the many advantages of living in Britain. I'd much prefer months and months of warm, very warm, hot weather to the frustrating British summers, like the one we've been having - the fairly low temperatures accompanied by too much wind - but gardening is an interest of mine and British gardens do benefit from the British weather. I'm in the older age group and this is quite a long time ago, but a friend of mine decided to move to France and spent years and years travelling round France in his summer holidays so he could decide where to settle. He decided on Monflanquin near the valley of the river Lot - the nearest big city to this village is Toulouse, not in a bullfighting area but getting towards it. I visited him at Monflanquin, where he'd bought quite a large property, one with character. The weather during my stay was wonderful but although the weather wasn't dull, I found Monflanquin very dull. He's a violinist but there were no cultural advantages for living there for him. When I arrived , he told me that when he'd moved to Monflanquin, he''d decided to move back to England after only a week of living there, and he did. The move to France hadn't worked out at all. I live in a small terraced house in a working class area on the outskirts of Sheffield, and the general warmth and friendliness of people - not everyone, of course - is a huge advantage. This isn't in the area of the Yorkshire Dales but the nearby scenery and many of the buildings, built of Yorkshire stone, with roofs of stone tiles - are similar to the Yorkshire Dales. I call them the 'Sheffield Dales.' I find that the scenery and the buildings are enhanced, if anything, by less than perfect weather. They look better with overcast skies than in perfect sunny weather - but I still prefer sunny weather in summer.

[@iSumsky]

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