I recently made the move from the UK to France and found it surprisingly difficult to find information online about some of the boring but necessary practicalities.
There are a few sites that want to charge you money for their services, but I was looking for fairly simple, generic information so I wouldn’t expect it to be proprietary.
Nonetheless, it proved remarkably hard to find information online and people I spoke to didn’t seem to have a clear picture of how things worked either! The most common responses were: “we live in Switzerland”, “my husband deals with that” or “we pay someone to do that for us”. Being a thrifty Northerner, I wasn’t having any of the final option!
Finally I have muddled through and worked things out, so I thought I would share the thrills of admin in France / Switzerland.
A few things I plan to write about:
Health Insurance
Tax in France
And just in case this feels a bit much… a few reminders of how great it is to live here:
