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Originally Posted by Innerzone
I'm curious. What is the thinking behind moving to France first (for a rather short time IIRC) and then to Czech Republic? You don't need to answer if you don't want, I'm just curious. Glad you're trip is going pretty well.  |
HI Innerzone. It's actually the opposite. Our plan is to live in Czech Republic first (at least a year), then retire in France.
An advantage to eventually living in France is that both of our French language skills are good, not just one (Hubby speaks Czech, but I do not). Also, hubby was interested in a better climate, which he thinks/thought France has. Czech Republic is quite overcast during more months.
It's hard to explain, but my husband has some reservations about life in Czech Republic. The problem is that his memories are mostly from communist Czechoslovakia and not the now more democratic Czech Republic. He has criticized Czech culture, but really he doesn't fully know how/if certain things have changed. When he came to the US in the 1980s, America seemed an almost utopia. Sadly, it's not a utopia. It has issues like other places, though perhaps not the same ones. Ditto for France.
What he's experienced is the notion that "The grass is greener on the other side." Truth is, you don't fully know that until you live on the other side for a while. And what is green to one isn't necessarily to another.