#FRANCE: EX-PATRIOTISM MEANS LOTS OF PAPER. SIMON CONSTABLE, OCCITANIE
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:35.2 | This is CBS Iron the World. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm John Batch with my good colleague, Simon Constable, who moved from the United Kingdom, Scotland in particular, where it is always cloudy, except for the last five days when Simon was there. He moved to the south of France, where it is always paradise. There is an article in the Financial Times most recently, Americans want to move to Europe, but just how easy is it. Some of this is politics. Other parts of it are the boomers retiring, and I can live anywhere I want, |
| 1:00.0 | and look at those very attractive villages in Italy, and look at the south of France, what a good |
| 1:04.4 | time Simon's having. But Simon, haste is the word, is what I learned from listening to |
| 1:10.6 | your adventures as you, every document that France put in front of you into, what do I do now? |
| 1:18.4 | Haste is useless. |
| 1:19.7 | You must be, well, Simon, you said patient, but I remind you, listening to you those months and sometimes years, patience is not easy when you don't know |
| 1:29.3 | what's next, when you're wandering into a landscape that you might not solve. So what are your |
| 1:34.0 | lessons learned, Simon, from moving to the, from the United Kingdom where you're home to the |
| 1:40.0 | south of France, which is now your home? |
| 1:43.3 | There is a lot of paperwork in Europe when you want to move country. |
| 1:47.1 | It's not a few pages. |
| 1:48.5 | It's a lot of pages that you have to deal with and you have to deal with it without usually |
| 1:53.8 | much help from the embassies that are there. |
| 1:57.2 | So you're going to be asked for things that you didn't expect. You might present the |
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