Anyone know Brittany, France?

[Q8bunny]

Has anyone ever lived in the Brittany region of France? Chewie and I are looking at buying a little house there and I was wondering if anyone had advice about certain areas vs others, or cost of farmers market food, or weather in different areas, or even availability of bunny vets, etc.

[Q8bunny]

No one, I guess… Ho hum…

Well, I think we’ve got it narrowed down to the Morbihan region so we can enjoy the microclimate there (we don’t fancy temperature extremes).

[Vienna Blue in France]

Q8 – now that’s exciting news….!!! i can find out from other people if you like, my french friends when I’m back home next week

[Q8bunny]

That would be fab. It’s a bit early days, but it’ll be our forever home in a couple of years so I’m trying to cover all my bases and summer is when I check things out and work on furthering my retirement plans. For instance I found a darling cottage just across the “border” in Pays de la Loire that’s located in a village with a vet – added bonus in case my furball needs anything.
My mom’s fam all live in Paris, and I swear, for Frenchies, they’re awfully city-bound.

[Vienna Blue in France]

LOL – Frenchies ARE very city bound – at least the townies are !! LOL – and I’m in town too.

Oooooo, it’s exciting though and you have family here – so important !
Yes check though that the vet is rabbit savvy – rabbits in the country here? – well they don’t need vets!

[Q8bunny]

Yeah… mom’s side of fam is in La France so I grew up spending a lot of summers there

To be honest, I had zero hopes for a rabbit savvy vet since I plan to live in the countryside, but if the village had a vet, I could at least have him/her supply me with meds or equipment etc (my rabbit savvy vet here, knowing she was retiring this spring and that I’d be moving to the country in a couple of years spent the past year having me come in at least one weekend a month to learn about bun anatomy, ailments, etc)

[Vienna Blue in France]

Q8 – wow that sounds great ! That’s a good vet that you’ve got there!

[Q8bunny]

She’s a bun nut like us.

[Sorayya]

Never been to Brittany, but I lived in Paris and in Lyon. I studied Philosophy at Lyon 3. Great school, albeit a little hostile and bourgeois. I love France, it’s my second home.

[Q8bunny]

My family’s in Paris, but I’m a country girl. I want to kick the bucket eating cassoulet and drinking chilled pear cider from Limoges. LOL

[Vienna Blue in France]

Lyon – “hostile and bourgeois” ! Absolutely true – lol.
But I have some best friends there now too !! Once (and what a marathon ‘once’ is!!) you’ve made friends, they’re for life,
and Lyon is incredibly beautiful with the 2 rivers flowing through the centre ! But yes, I left too (for the north of France) because the Lyon community was too ‘cold’.

My Dutch friend who lived there with me for a while put it quite bluntly when she left (to go live in London) – “I’m fed up of people looking at me in the street as if I’ve got a turd on my forehead”! LOL – that wraps Lyon up quite well – even the people from Lyon say so !

[Q8bunny]

LOOOL Yeah… Paris would’ve been the easier option for me since my aunty’s an architect and could get me an amazing deal on a flat through her contacts.

But the warmest, kindest, salt-of-the-earth type people I’ve met in France have been small village inhabitants. Those are the people I wish to run into on my way to the boulangerie.

[Vienna Blue in France]

They are wonderfully nice – just in small villages, everyone knows everything about everyone….

PS : Does “Aunty” have any house contacts in Lille …..??!! LOL

[Q8bunny]

I’ll ask her but she’s Parisian through and through.

I’m a nerd and a reclusive writer so there won’t be much to know. LOOOL

[Sorayya]

I like Luchon, in the mountains. Beautiful little town. I do love France, but it’s hard for me to find a job there as I wear Islamic headscarf.

[Q8bunny]

I find that so unfair. A hijab is no different from a woman wearing a crucifix around her neck – it is a symbol of faith, and shouldn’t be an excuse for discrimination.

[Vienna Blue in France]

Hmmm, not many crucifixes around these days either…. lol
But France is full of headscarf wearing women… it’s not like its doesn’t have a thriving muslim communities in the towns (OK maybe not in little country villages)!!

And for the sake of a job interview could you not remove it… I mean I don’t usually wear what I wear to interviews in “normal” life, I do it to make a good first impression and for them not to discrimate about me wearing ripped jeans, flipflops and a non matching tshirt!!!! I know they shouldn’t, but it’s human nature.
I suppose it dépends on what your beliefs are re the heardscarf. I know plenty of female muslims who don’t wear one.

[Q8bunny]

From what I know, once a woman has decided to wear hijab, it must be worn at all times when not with immediate family or just women.

[Vienna Blue in France]

Yes, I think also that, as with many subjects, there are a thousand different interpretations… and each one may be correct.
I also know that when one is in a minority, one has to work harder to get liked, accepted and appreciated for who one is.
That’s why I’m a clown !!

[Q8bunny]

lol And I a nerd. I grew up moving around a lot so I was always the new kid. Not always easy, especially when you don’t speak the language or have the money or fit in in other ways.

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