[J_in_France]

@thin ice wrote:

@j_in_france wrote:

@thin ice wrote:

there are no set rules
its all about opinions
and my comment to jadey featured my opinion of her post wirh no content
:roll:

exactly as you have so wonderfully contradicted yourself in proving

i dont feel the need to prove any thing to any one my friend :P

I was not asking you to prove anything – all I said was that your response proved you had contradicted yourself

[J_in_France]

@thin ice wrote:

@j_in_france wrote:

@thin ice wrote:

there are no set rules
its all about opinions
and my comment to jadey featured my opinion of her post wirh no content
:roll:

exactly as you have so wonderfully contradicted yourself in proving

i dont feel the need to prove any thing to any one my friend :P

really???

[J_in_France]

@thin ice wrote:

there are no set rules
its all about opinions
and my comment to jadey featured my opinion of her post wirh no content
:roll:

exactly as you have so wonderfully contradicted yourself in proving

[J_in_France]

@thin ice wrote:

thank you j for your valued input

jadey if your going to hog a thread with so many posts at least have a point of view :roll:

It is wonderful to see that you found it a valuable input thin!!!!

Does a thread have to stay on topic? Does a conversation never change depending on the thoughts of those in it? I personally enjoyed Jadey’s input to my response as it was a good laugh

[J_in_France]

@jadey wrote:

awwwwww J i was hoping u wud hun my little fingers ache answering all these posts :)

then don’t answer them and your fingers won’t ache

[J_in_France]

@jadey wrote:

blimey J thats some typing hun u wanna do my posts for me :D

lol no thanks but just thought it would be interesting to give my point of view and sort of found a lot to say about why it is good living in France

[J_in_France]

@tinks wrote:

@fat bob wrote:

You can hide a few toilet rolls under there!!

I’m gonna hide something a lot more interesting than a pack of andrex loo rolls under that frock I can assure you! :lol:

A christmas tree?

[J_in_France]

A few decades ago people were welcomed into the UK to do the jobs that others did not wish to do, especially the lower paid jobs. Now people move countries for many reasons and in some cases it can be for the wrong reasons. But look at the large numbers of people leaving the UK for a better life elsewhere whether that be in the EU or other countries.

I worked in Holland for a number of years because I had a skill that was in demand and I could earn a very nice living doing so. A lot of people from the UK work in the EU in many different sectors, so I would say the argument about coming to the UK for jobs, works in reverse too.

Medical care. Come to the UK and join a waiting list for several months! Here the response is almost immediate. A friend went for a consultation about an eye problem and the consultant wanted to keep her in hospital to operate immediately for a detached retina , would that happen in the UK? My doctor sent me for a blood test one morning, that afternoon I had a phone call from him to be at his surgery first thing the next day and was prescribed some medication. Would the results get back so quickly in the UK? Why are people in the UK sent abroad for operations that take so long to be done due to waiting lists? Just another thing – car parks at the hospitals I have been to are free here.

Schooling. With the recent rise in the UK of university fees it is interesting to see the number of British students now studying abroad. Here in France education is basically free until the age of 25 so no university fees. The yearly move up to the next class does not happen automatically and students can choose to re-do a year again. This happens quite often and no stigma is attached to doing so. Our daughter passed her ‘Brevet’ (sort of GCSE equivalent exam) but decided she was not ready to start the Baccalaureate so chose to re-do the year again but in a private school. Before you think that is costly, private schools are mostly government funded and the annual fees are about £1,000 which includes school lunches (four courses). She again passed the Brevet and was then far more confident and ready to go on to do the Bac.

Housing. I am not going to compare here to the UK because I am not in a position to do so. But in France when youngsters want to set up on their own they can apply for help in paying their rent and in quite a few cases this means the rental is zero. This aid is available until they are 26.

Obviously these services don’t come free but have to be paid for, and my salary slip has so many deductions for this, that and the other. There are also deductions for unemployment, illness , old age, etc insurances, so that if for example you are unemployed you are claiming on insurance you have paid for.

Personally I know where I would most like to be

[J_in_France]

Just the three wishes I would choose

1. That people learn to understand and respect other people in the room and in real life – would the things that people say in the room really be repeated to others in real life – and would they dare do so? Age, Race, Colour, social level, size, education level, looks, employed or not, etc, are to me never an issue – if someone is nice they are nice – if they are a prat they are a prat, but using something against a person and bullying them singularly or as a group is a cheap, nasty and sad practise, and only speaks volumes about the people doing so.

2. Life has a knack of kicking people where it most hurts whether that be through illness, circumstances or just sheer bad luck. I would wish all those in that position the chance to find a way out of that situation

3. A big win on the lottery – I am sure the couple from Sheffield who won a large amount on the lottery a few years ago and who have had the pleasure to accept their. good fortune and to enjoy it are a good example to everyone who has seen the TV programs about them. Being in the position to enjoy being able to help others, for example to take their local primary school kids to the Pantomime at Christmas and to enjoy the pleasure those kids got – being able to do something similalar to me that would be bliss

To the sad people in the room and on the boards who can only score points by trying to put others down why not try and get a life and think about other people rather than your sad selves or multiple named sad selves – sometimes a simple nice word says far more than a thousand attempted put downs of others

And anyone who tries to have a go at me because ot the last paragraph just proves my point

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