Cancelled my 2 weeks in Tenerife

[Lubrown]

There’s a huge difference between living in a country & visiting it. We have French friends, consequently we spend a lot of time in France and they spend time here. We think France is better in some respects than the UK, & they vice-versa. The problem with being a visitor, is you tend to pick & choose the best bits, until you’re a resident & have to work with the systems & bureaucracy, you don’t really get the whole picture. You visit France & see the well kept towns & villages and good public services, but you don’t see the high tax rates, VAT on food & kids clothes, sky high food prices. The French come here & love the liberty that we have to walk the countryside, the lack of “Controle”in all aspects of life (France can feel like a police state on occasions) the toll free motorways, the vast choice of wine in our supermarkets & restaurants etc etc.
The grass is always greener on the other side.

I appreciate that (although the general consensus with some reading is that your average French family, and especially those with single earners, actually pay less tax than we do while earning more on average and working fewer hours) and of course one’s mood is better on holiday*.
I just dislike what the UK has turned into. The hatred of others and the division along any line you can imagine, the lack of money for anything, the filth… everywhere.
As for supermarket food prices and wine choices we found no difference. You probably have to travel a little further for a big shop but the roads are better and more space = lower density of people. Diesel was higher price in France though.

*We don’t do touristy things and I love a dinghy alley and industrial heritage so I’ll happily walk in the dodgy parts of any town (they’re often the best bits for me) so we don’t just pick the picturesque towns and villages.

 

[Burner]

We’re off to Cornwall on Friday, never been, stopping somewhere near holywell bay

See you there!

 

[Burner]

Made it down 6 hours, not bad

 

[Madpasty]

Are you stoping at trevornick?

 

[Burner]

Yeh