TESTIMONIALS – French expatriates also find advantages in living in smaller towns, far from the hustle and bustle of the British capital.
They swapped the sirens of police cars and the horns ofblack cabs» for the song of the birds and the echo of the mountains. Nearly half of the French in the United Kingdom have thus taken up residence outside London.
Arrived in the United Kingdom twelve years ago, Gwen settled down in the city of Bristol after almost seven years spent in London. Like 91,000 French people in the United Kingdom, she has decided not to live in the capital, where nine million inhabitants are agitated. At thirty, the Frenchwoman launched her translation business and did not plan to continue her life in shared accommodation. She then chose Bristol.
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Nestled in the county of Gloucestershire, in the South West of England, it is the fifth largest city in the United Kingdom with less than 500,000 inhabitants. If the real estate market in the region has increased by nearly 13% since the pandemic according to the BBC, prices remain much more affordable than in the capital. “I originally chose to move to London to…
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