[davidg]

shindigger, on 28 July 2011 - 07:31 PM, said:

I'm off to France to see an old flame next week, and will have an eye out for a place in the Languedoc.
Im stunned at what you can get there for the price of a chav infested hell hole in north London. This is even after their boom.

Because Languedoc is a poor region of France. Take Nîmes, the prefecture of the Gard department. It is in the bottom quartile of French towns in terms of average salary. Average household income is a mere 1900 euros per month of which the govt will take 20% social security charges.

You are not really comparing like with like. Powys or somewhere like that might be a better comparison. Your Chav infested hell hole in North London will be much like a Chav infested hell hole in North Paris, and cost much the same. Less rioting in North London though.

That doesn't invalidate what you say, quite the opposite, there are plenty of places to go in the world if you are not constrained with having to earn a crust by being physically present at a job.