Anyone know Brittany, France?

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- 05/12/2016 at 10:28 PM
  Q8bunny
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  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.
- 05/14/2016 at 2:08 AM
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  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).
- 05/14/2016 at 7:47 AM
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  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
- 05/14/2016 at 8:31 AM
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  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.
- 05/14/2016 at 5:43 PM
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  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!
- 05/14/2016 at 10:50 PM
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  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)
- 05/15/2016 at 4:52 PM
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  Q8 – wow that sounds great ! That’s a good vet that you’ve got there!
- 05/15/2016 at 9:46 PM
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  She’s a bun nut like us.
- 05/23/2016 at 7:59 PM
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  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.
- 05/23/2016 at 9:29 PM
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  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
- 05/26/2016 at 2:18 PM
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  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 !
- 05/27/2016 at 12:09 AM
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  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.
- 05/27/2016 at 6:35 AM
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  They are wonderfully nice – just in small villages, everyone knows everything about everyone….
  
  PS : Does “Aunty” have any house contacts in Lille …..??!! LOL
- 05/27/2016 at 6:45 AM
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  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
- 05/27/2016 at 10:42 AM
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  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.
- 05/27/2016 at 11:02 AM
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  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.
- 05/27/2016 at 11:55 AM
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  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.
- 05/27/2016 at 1:05 PM
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  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.
- 05/27/2016 at 2:20 PM
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  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 !!
- 05/27/2016 at 2:47 PM
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  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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