Life and Living in France
Writing a daily blog about life in France, making a living in France and answering questions from readers is a full time job - unfortunately making a living and supporting a family in France is also a full time job - so one of them has to suffer (sorry kids).
It is not the problem about having something to say, just the opposite, there is so much to write about which even after nearly 20 years living in France I find fresh, frustrating, fascinating, fun and foolish, that I could fill a three volume Victorian novel every day - luckily no one would ever read it.
My work is to build what is already the best real-estate agency in France Coast and Country into the most successful estate agency in France. it is already very successful on the French Riviera with their main office in Mougins and others in Nice, Cannes and Hyeres.
They asked me to help with their Internet marketing last year, and after a delay while I was out of action late last year, I not only took over the optimising and marketing of their websites, but I am now building their Languedoc agency in France - this is a real case of the poacher turning gamekeeper as for years I have been less than flattering about the French real-estate business in my blogs.
My experience of property in France has been coloured by the large number of English based companies who parasitically leech onto the French immobilier (estate agents) - some (who I cannot name for legal reasons as they have big legal departments and keep threatening to sue me, although they know I am telling the truth which is why they worried in the first place - my advice is simply do not bother with anyone offering French real-estate who cannot show you a licensed Carte Professionnelle in France).
So now I am an immobilier, a blogger, an old fat red-faced geek and very happy to be living in France.
