The Best Place to Live in France

We've found the best place in the world to live and it's just across the Channel in France. Introducing Eymet.

With statistics from the Home Office suggesting that over two thirds of the British public are now seriously concerned about the likes of gun and knife crime in the Britain, wouldn’t it be wonderful to live in a location where such crimes are mere figments of the over active imagination of television drama producers?  But does such an idyllic land exist?  Is it truly possible to find anywhere – let alone anywhere within reach – where you can get back to the wholesome basics of family and community living?

Apparently it is. 

For there is a corner of France where British residents have found themselves back at home in an England of fifty years ago, and according to these emigrants they have not only found the best place to live in France, they have found the best place to live in the whole world.

The pretty thirteenth century town that these British residents call home is called Eymet - it’s located in a sleepy corner of south western France overlooking the river Dropt, in the Dordogne to be precise.  Home to around 800 Brits, Eymet is the sort of place where children can walk to and from school unchaperoned, play out on the street with friends and even visit the local shop for sweets.  It’s the sort of place where you can pop to the local cafe for a chat with friends having walked out of the house without locking the door.  It’s the sort of place where the community is so tight and so friendly that everyone supports each other and there is no serious crime to speak of.

If you are thinking of living and working in France, Eymet may sound like the perfect community for you!

There are even those who live in the town who have yet to learn French!  After all, one of the main shops is run by a Brit selling English produce, the internet cafe is run by Britons, one of the main local sports is cricket and it’s quite possible that after the next local elections there will be British representation on the local council!

The climate in the Dordogne is temperate in the winter and fabulous in the summer.  Property prices are a fraction of those in southern England, accessibility is a breeze thanks to the low cost airlines, Channel Tunnel, excellent road and rail network in France and the fact that France is on us Britons’ doorstep...so is there any downside to this rural idyll?  Well, we can’t find one!

You can eat out for a fraction of the cost that you would incur in the UK and dine al fresco on sumptuous local produce.  You can buy your basic staples from producers in the region at low, low prices and then stock up with Tetley Tea and Walkers Crisps at the English shop in town, thanks to improvements in satellite coverage and the BBC’s new iPlayer you can keep up with all your favourite TV and radio programmes from back home.  All this whilst living the dream within a safe, community spirited, welcoming and friendly town in France.

Let’s all go!