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We moved to France from the USA - Was it Worth it?
Download our Move-to-France Resources guide: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f
About Us:
We are an American family of 3 who moved to France for an extended stay adventure in 2022.
We wanted to experience Europe as more than rushed tourists on a 10-day vacation. To dive into the culture, learn a new language, experience daily life, and truly know what it was like to work and live somewhere other than the US.
In France, we set up a business, enrolled in a middle school, found housing, and even got our cat a European passport!
While in the US preparing to leave, the information we found about staying in France for longer than a short vacation was directed at college students, young & single digital nomads, or retirees. Where was the useful information for families like us?
With two years under our belts in France, we created Baguette Bound to pass on what we have learned. We hope to make it easier and inspire other families who are interested in experiencing a long stay or moving to France with their families. Stay tuned for more information on French culture, adjusting and the logistics of moving across the world.
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PLEASE NOTE: While we love hearing from viewers, we do not give personalized advice on moving to France by email.
If you'd like counsel specific to your situation, you can find ways to work with us on our website www.baguettebound.com
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3 American myths we don't believe anymore after living in Europe
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Download our Move-to-France Resources guide: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f About Us: We are an American family of 3 who moved to France for an extended stay adventure in 2022. We wanted to experience Europe as more than rushed tourists on a 10-day vacation. To dive into the culture, learn a new language, experience daily life, and truly know what it was like to work and live somewhere o...
We moved to France from the USA legally - Two great visa options for Americans
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Two great French visa options for Americans. What's required to qualify? We talk about two of the most popular types of long-term visas: Long Stay Visitor visa (VLS-TS), often referred to as the retirement visa and the Profession Libérale Visa for those who want to work in France by operating their own business. Download our Move-to-France Resources guide: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f ...
French Countryside living - would these trade offs be worth it to you?
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We love it, but people frequently ask us to talk about the things we don't like or are an adjustment from what most Americans imagine. Here it is! Download our Move-to-France Resources guide: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f About Us: We are an American family of 3 who moved to France for an extended stay adventure in 2022. We wanted to experience Europe as more than rushed tourists on a 1...
Moving your pet to France from the USA (step by step) - Interview
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Meet an American couple who moved to France with their 70lb golden retriever, Annie, and share the process and experience of relocating safely and comfortably with their pet. Our Move-to-France resource list: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f About Us: We are an American family of 3 who moved to France for an extended stay adventure in 2022. We wanted to experience Europe as more than rushe...
Why Americans are drowning in debt compared to the French
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And whose fault is it, really? Want to move to France but have questions or are not sure if it's possible? www.baguettebound.com About Us: We are an American family of 3 who moved to France for an extended stay adventure in 2022. We wanted to experience Europe as more than rushed tourists on a 10-day vacation. To dive into the culture, learn a new language, experience daily life, and truly know...
Hidden reasons people move abroad
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Why not just move somewhere else in the USA? Why make your life harder by moving abroad? People often say it's for things that are easy to explain, like better weather, affordability, or healthcare but there's more than that... Get the Move-to-France Resource guide: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f Want to move to France but have questions or are not sure if it's possible? Book a 1:1 consu...
Set-up a Bank Account in France as an American
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Wise discount codes (free transfer up to $600): wise.com/invite/dic/jasonw1716 wise.com/invite/dic/rainaw10 This video offers banking advice for Americans moving to France. We talk about currency conversions, comparing low-fee online services like Wise and Revolut with traditional currency brokers. The video also explains how to open a French bank account, including necessary documents and usef...
Four things we didn't expect that are better in France vs US
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Want to move to France but have questions or not sure if it's possible? Book a 1:1 consult to ask us anything. BookWithRaina.as.me/BaguetteBoundConsult About Us: We are an American family of 3 who moved to France for an extended stay adventure in 2022. We wanted to experience Europe as more than rushed tourists on a 10-day vacation. To dive into the culture, learn a new language, experience dai...
Moving Abroad: The Challenges No One Talks About
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FRANCE CHANNEL: www.francechannel.tv/? CODE: BAGUETTE30 Feeling dumb, uncomfortable, unproductive, disagreeing with your partner...prepare for things no one tells you will be part of the whole amazing enchilada of moving abroad. Download our moving to France resources guide: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f About Us: We are an American family of 3 who moved to France for an extended stay a...
Keeping your US number and getting a French one - cost, process, tips
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Tips and ticks to transition cell phone service from the US to France. Find out how to keep your US number for free, learn about the French phone companies, how to find a French sim card and how to set up new phone service in France. Find out if you can port your US phone number to google voice: voice.google.com/u/0/porting Four major French cell phone carriers: boutique.orange.fr/mobile mobile...
5 American Things You Might Miss in France
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Some things that are common parts of American daily life you won't see much of in France. This is how we've adjusted to living differently or without these things, along with tips on how you might too if you're moving to France from the USA. Download our Free Move-to-France Resource guide here: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f 00:00 French Dryers 03:56 French Drive Through 05:56 French Air...
French Rentals - tips and options for expats moving to France
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The first thing to figure out when moving to France is where you'll live - even if it's temporarily. The feature on Airbnb that makes your visa application easier, how to find and book off-season "gites" for your initial few months, and what a French landlord will likely expect you to provide in your application for a long-term rental. Download our Free Move-to-France Resource guide here: uniqu...
$200,000 in the French Countryside - 6 Bedrooms and 1 Enchanted Garden
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Download our free Move-to-France Resource list: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f Join us on a tour of our French country house and grounds. See what the house looks like BEFORE renovations begin. About Us: We are an American family of 3 who moved to France for an extended stay adventure in 2022. We wanted to experience Europe as more than rushed tourists on a 10-day vacation. To dive into ...
Differences in our French Countryside life vs the USA
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Small things in daily life that feel very different than the USA and shape our days as a family living in the French Countryside of the Dordogne. Download our free Move-to-France Resource list: unique-writer-5502.ck.page/85c59d782f 00:00 How Life is Different 00:50 Store Hours in France 02:36 French School Schedule 04:43 Fresh Food 05:45 Advertising & Commercials 07:14 French Countryside Events...
Avoid these 6 mistakes your first year
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Avoid these 6 mistakes your first year
FRENCH Grocery Shopping: What's It Like?
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FRENCH Grocery Shopping: What's It Like?
I Try it For You! French Cheese Crash Course
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I Try it For You! French Cheese Crash Course
Sign Up for French Healthcare (Carte Vitale)
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Sign Up for French Healthcare (Carte Vitale)
How to Have Fun Without Getting Overwhelmed
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How to Have Fun Without Getting Overwhelmed
Mentally Preparing for a Move Abroad
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Mentally Preparing for a Move Abroad
How France's Healthcare is BETTER - French Medical Care System Overview
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How France's Healthcare is BETTER - French Medical Care System Overview
Surprising Everyday French Rules
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Surprising Everyday French Rules
Buy a House in France - Process Revealed
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Buy a House in France - Process Revealed
What's required of you in France?
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What's required of you in France?
Finding the American Dream in France
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Finding the American Dream in France
When you don't speak French (yet)
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When you don't speak French (yet)
Is it hard to get a mortgage in France? A job if I don't speak French? Viewer questions answered!
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Is it hard to get a mortgage in France? A job if I don't speak French? Viewer questions answered!
What's a 700 person French Village like? Tour Lauzun in Southwest France with us!
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What's a 700 person French Village like? Tour Lauzun in Southwest France with us!
To a village without these 5 things
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To a village without these 5 things

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @shinigamileo8250
    @shinigamileo8250 6 хвилин тому

    Nice to see you in France, the best country in the world! We know it's false but we're french : we're proud even when we know we are wrong 😅

  • @littledaddynesbit4193
    @littledaddynesbit4193 7 хвилин тому

    ....ssshh don't tell them, they'll all want to leave!!

  • @erinb6365
    @erinb6365 15 хвилин тому

    My husband and I are currently binge watching your awesome videos in prep for our move! Did you end up making a video on the 1 year renewal process? I can’t find it, but am not sure if I’ve missed it somehow. If not, no worries! Thanks for all of the GREAT info!

  • @BeardyBaldyBob
    @BeardyBaldyBob 18 хвилин тому

    The pledge of allegiance is DEEPLY creepy to the rest of the world. Like, making little kids stand up and say that mad stuff that sounds like text-book indoctrination every day is mental!

  • @ajm6623
    @ajm6623 19 хвилин тому

    American tap water is dangerous and should not be consumed

  • @petergilbert72
    @petergilbert72 33 хвилини тому

    Most interesting point made (for me) were the different definitions of ‘freedom’: ‘freedom to’ and ‘freedom from’.

  • @DaveGreen-gw6ew
    @DaveGreen-gw6ew 33 хвилини тому

    21 months for an election campaign is so long it's stupid. In the U.K. this year we had a general election. From the time the election was announced until election day was about SIX weeks, maybe SEVEN weeks at the most. So there wasn't time to even start an advertising campaign.

  • @combrogi
    @combrogi 39 хвилин тому

    America, the unwanted global police that will destr us all in the future 😩

  • @schrodinger6991
    @schrodinger6991 40 хвилин тому

    You also live in the worst place in europe, france.

  • @VivatVeritas1
    @VivatVeritas1 46 хвилин тому

    Can you? Drinking fluoridated water strengthens the enamel on your teeth, does it? That must be why on every toothpaste tube there’s a warning not to put too much on it, and ensure that your child never swallows it. Happy googling!

  • @AficionadoKO
    @AficionadoKO 47 хвилин тому

    Who are you addressing? Americans obviously don't care, hence the recent US election results. Most Europeans would find your insights laughable. (Expatriate American living in Europe since 1985).

  • @PhilipSchofield-ly9po
    @PhilipSchofield-ly9po 50 хвилин тому

    It's always good to follow you and see your enthusiasm for your move to SW France. I'd like to know where you live. We're English (sorry!). we've had a house for £1,500. 00 in a small hamlet near Vanxains that we bought in 1969 : there was one Englishman in Vanxains who refused to speak to us because we were English. He's buried near my mother (who was Belgian), my father and my sister in the same Vanxains cemetery. The house ( a house with a batn) can sleep 14 people, an orchard and a couple of hectares of land.

  • @IlicSorrentino
    @IlicSorrentino 51 хвилина тому

    USA people are just grown babies just lucky to live protected by oceans and blessed with oil. You are on average ignorant, stupid, violent, racist and stupid more than an average European citizen. I don't know if the world would be better without you but I'm sure it's not better. Good luck to us.

  • @idubzh243
    @idubzh243 Годину тому

    Soldes comes from sold the preterit of to sell !

  • @aleksilepisto7282
    @aleksilepisto7282 Годину тому

    Americans still go to a single European country and claim its representative of “Europe.”

    • @dvb8637
      @dvb8637 Годину тому

      For most part of european countries it is. As laws and rules are pretty much the same. Smh.

  • @psibiza
    @psibiza Годину тому

    The biggest misconception US Americans have about their own country, other countries and life in general is that they get more freedom through less regulations. Not only is this untrue, it's also not the case in the USA. Even in the US regulations create freedom. Areas without regulations only create legal uncertainty. To me, that's the opposite of freedom.

  • @dvb8637
    @dvb8637 Годину тому

    It only sound ridiculous to uneducated, arrogant, indoctrinated americans that has zero world knowledge who never set a foot outside their country. Europe does it 50x better on pretty much every aspect than the U.S. does. The world doesnt see the U.S. as the best or greatest country but as the biggest woke, racist, unsafest, most dangerous, most gun violent, toxic, uneducated joke of a country. There is a reason why the west calls the U.S. a third world country of the west.

  • @matthewwixey6745
    @matthewwixey6745 Годину тому

    I Love your handle . It reminds me of a comment an American made whilst I was on holiday in New Zealand . He saw the bar snack menu and asked , Bagette , whats that ? Some little bun thing ! 😅

  • @JTNB073
    @JTNB073 Годину тому

    And then to think that the tap water in France is by far not the best in Europe🤣

  • @matthewwixey6745
    @matthewwixey6745 Годину тому

    You have hit the nail on the head with freedom from , and freedom to . ❤️

  • @RoelofMalan
    @RoelofMalan Годину тому

    america, land of the free, FREE to be as STUPID UNINFORMED AS POSSIBLE and free to have the lowest general knowledge in the world. go america!! 😂😂😂

  • @nixandersson
    @nixandersson Годину тому

    I do enjoy your channel. It makes me understand France a bit better and it make me understand the US as well. One thing though: Crème Brûlée is absolutely not a yogurt. I think you have gotten the yogurt section wrong. Some times desserts like Crème brûlée are put at display close to the yogurt. I suppose, mostly because the packaging is somehow similar.

  • @canalya
    @canalya Годину тому

    U can realize that Russians seems similar. Big country, also isolated(cause it need to get visa to visit USA or EU) and many people thinks that Russia is the best country to live

  • @fvingerhoed
    @fvingerhoed Годину тому

    The US is great for the National Parks and shopping. That's it. I've been so many times to the US. I lived illegal there for 4 years. In the end, the US legal system is the worst.. Land of the 'Free" .. please.

  • @guusderotte1206
    @guusderotte1206 Годину тому

    An absolutely fantastic video! It should be seen all over the US in the hope that it will open peoples eyes to the brainwashing consumerism. I went to an American school for 6 years (in Finland) and was taught that the American way of life was the only right way and that the US was the best country in the world with the true democracy. Now, as an elderly man having lived the rest of my life in the Netherlands I cherish our small country so much! Good luck in France!!!

  • @eucitizen78
    @eucitizen78 Годину тому

    Fact is that USA is still a big experiment. A bunch of emigtants that pretend to be a nation or what do you thing why you need the American flag on every corner or the music played when the president comes out of the door? I could mention 1000 things. All the genealogy you do because you don't know who you are and and and Think about it.

  • @dianeadam4926
    @dianeadam4926 Годину тому

    Butter is sometimes served with certain cheeses - at the cheese time of the meal (after lettuce and before desert). Butter is on the table more in Normandy, and salted butter in Brittany : the more humid part of France (like in England ) You are in Dordogne, South of the Loire, so you are less in the butter than the olive oil, walnut oil..... part of France.

  • @idubzh243
    @idubzh243 Годину тому

    So much ham because it goes with everything here : especially with baguette and butter, this is our main sandwich recipe.

  • @NG-cx1mm
    @NG-cx1mm Годину тому

    America WAS the land of the free when in Europe the people were oppressed because of religion and the 1% rich people abused the poor. But well time changes situations. It is the other way around now. Maybe America should have a good look at their political system and adapt it to 2024. Get rid of Greedy Billionaires.

  • @brearleydavid2194
    @brearleydavid2194 2 години тому

    F off back to maga land ....😮

  • @kriskrof10
    @kriskrof10 2 години тому

    I have been binge watching your videos since I discovered your channel. Would you be considered as communist/woke or lost cause in the US now? Thanks

  • @miks564
    @miks564 2 години тому

    Americans like to live in Europe AFTER building their life in the US. If you earn more than 50 or 60k a year, you already have to pay near half of your income in direct taxes. And the rest goes fast because everything is a lot more expensive in Europe because of energy prices and consumption tax. Everything but healthcare. So yes, you can like it in Europe after building your funds in US

  • @TheF1uffyOne.50
    @TheF1uffyOne.50 2 години тому

    American freedom is a myth, George Carlin says it best.

  • @Haghenveien
    @Haghenveien 2 години тому

    I'm from Spain. If you ask us to name a mass shooting in our country the only example we can think of is Puerto Hurraco. It happened in 1990. Ask an American to name mass shootings.

  • @JP-qp4gc
    @JP-qp4gc 2 години тому

    Welcome to the French socialist country that has the highest tax rates in the world. You will eventually find out paying taxes for Macron is not worth the french frozen and reheated baguettes you get in France.

  • @kirathal
    @kirathal 2 години тому

    we have a saying: we do not live to work,,,we work to live. if you are asked to work overtime (no obligation) then you will simply be paid for those overtime hours and if you work on the weekend then you will receive 150/200% of your overtime hours extra

  • @FlyingRobin544
    @FlyingRobin544 2 години тому

    I live in the Netherlands. I work 40 hours per week. Get paid for 38. Together with my yearly holidays I get almost 8 weeks off per year. I also have the option to buy 1 day off per month for only 35€. So that makes about 10 to 11 weeks off per year. This is much more worth to me then earning a few 100€ extra per month.

  • @mindexplorer6929
    @mindexplorer6929 2 години тому

    I think in Europe countries have a good mix between free market and social security, which Americans usually call far left, Marxist, communist. Life in Europe is less a rat race than in the USA.

  • @willemstaal5337
    @willemstaal5337 2 години тому

    The biggest revelation for me was the myth of Southern hospitality. I never saw Americans invite Latino immigrants to a BBQ for example.

  • @kirathal
    @kirathal 2 години тому

    Traditionally, the flag is raised on national holidays such as King's Day, Liberation Day and Prince's Day. It is also customary to hang out the flag on other festive occasions, such as a wedding, birthday or graduation.

  • @kirathal
    @kirathal 2 години тому

    brainwashing children in schools is fortunately not an issue here. ( im dutch) There are still schools where a prayer is said in the morning before classes start, but only in the so-called Bible Belt regions, but this has been abolished in normal schools for 70 years.

  • @mindexplorer6929
    @mindexplorer6929 3 години тому

    You landed in a country with also an exagerated self-esteem "la grande nation". 😂😂😂

  • @kirathal
    @kirathal 3 години тому

    we, as europeans, are happy that you now know the truth,

  • @jonasweber9408
    @jonasweber9408 3 години тому

    For Ham: There is a great number of different style of ham, then you add the type of meat: chicken, porc, turkey You also add the country origin and the salt/no salt, etc and you have a lot of ham 😊

  • @ppejas
    @ppejas 3 години тому

    Interesting video, but I think you don't notice one very important myth about USA - it's not democracy any longer. Regulations are made by few for few - it's oligarchy.

  • @jockorabeni4618
    @jockorabeni4618 3 години тому

    Same things are true over Here in Germany. Amazing.

  • @summer3010
    @summer3010 3 години тому

    Unfortunately, Europe has always adopted the worst "inventions" of the USA, most recently the incitement against ethnic groups, the destruction of our history and culture and above all the "woke" nonsense and the gender crap ... We no longer need war to destroy our countries and alienate us from our closest neighbours ... WE HAVE GLOBALISTS AND TODAY'S POLITICIANS ARE FOLLOWING THE US SCRIPT ... RESULT: WWIII IS AT OUR DOORSTEP!!!

  • @jaydawg2023
    @jaydawg2023 3 години тому

    Born and raised in Europe. Would move to the US in a heartbeat.

  • @Crossroad4337
    @Crossroad4337 3 години тому

    Thank you so much for your insights. The "freedom to" vs "freedom from" part was eye opening. I never thought of it this way.

    • @uweborsch1946
      @uweborsch1946 6 хвилин тому

      Man, that was defined by french J.-J. Rousseau around 1750 ;-)

  • @kathleenmillette574
    @kathleenmillette574 3 години тому

    You are so right. I made the leap expatriating to France 34 years ago and it was the best decision that I ever took. Not saying it was a cake walk at first but I accepted the challenge and worked hard to integrate. So happy.