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. No litres of wine available from restos in France. Just as well since my husband was driving us home between the sea and cliffs on a road that's all curves. It's just a half-litre or a bottle here.

When a non-EU national moves to France, there must be insurance policies they can buy. When they apply for a 'carte de sejour' in advance of their coming, they also must produce proof of having what the French admin sets as being sufficient medical insurance coverage for the length of their...

I've used the Argentine public health care system once when no private physician was available to see me for 2 weeks. . ( be iln when no privated vehn er

jeff1234, "What about health care? " That's a massive subject whose answer depends on many things about an individual's status and his intention to reside in France with its hybrid public/private system. What about healthcare do you want to know in particular?

jeff1234, "What about health care? " I can't answer that in a post. It's a massive subject overlapping in effect many areas of public administration and according to a slew of personal factors starting with one's own citizenship status, purpose and age in some cases, and whether he's here for a...

"A steak dinner for two at an average place costs about 50- 100 dollars.": Here on the French Riviera last night at a resto next to moored, pricey yachts near Cap Ferrat in the French Riviera,we paid the equivalent of $US87 for dinner for two - a half litre of local wine, 2 seafood starter...

Before choosing where to live in Spain, decide if you want to live in a Spanish culture or the British one. In many towns along the Costa del Sol especially, there's nobody who speaks Spanish left in them although British have lived in them for 15-20 years. They don't need to know any Spanish...

Lisbon is being called the 'best' city in the world (in the sense of being vibrant and compared with Berlin, I think). So says 'Wallpaper' magazine. I live in Nice, France whose groceries and everything but taxis cost the same or less now than their counterparts in BA! Meals out in Canada now...

I guess you're not a legal (temporary) Arg resident and therefore can't have an Arg peso account to which your foreign bank can be instructed by you to transfer a set sum of $US to it monthly with Arg deciding the FX rate? In all countries I've lived in, atms are the only method available when...

How is paying owed duties (per Arg's law on duties being applied to used goods) a bribe? I find that law meanly harsh but had you applied for Arg residency before the goods arrived and asked about the duty status re 'new residents household shipments', your shipper would have had the proof of...

Five years ago, we were instructed while still in Canada that once we applied for Arg temporary residency (pensionista) via its embassy there and satisfied Arg rules there, we'd then turn up in BA and THEN could receive shipment of everything, (all our furniture and belongings) duty-free for the...

Dual and multiple nationals have long had the exclusive prerogative to decide which of their passports they'll use to enter AND leave a country on. There's only one exception to this. It involves the right of every country to actually know when and that one of its own citizens is entering or...

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fifs2, EU law (its legislation and appeal decisions of the European Court of Justice + EU treaties) have been an integral part of the UK's law beginning in the early 1970's when May was aged about 17 -when the UK became an EU member state. Nobody has been 'instated' as you said. Neither May nor...

Ed Larson, You need far more than 'enlightenment' and a snarky request framed by your sense of self-entitlement to an answer. Your questions and comments to my post on the UK show a complete lack of knowledge about what the EU is, what a country's membership in it means, what May has done since...

Draconian. We live in dangerous times for human rights, democracies and citizenship - Macri, Theresa May, Trump who all see themselves as kings ruling by edict or some claimed royal prerogative. (We Brits are awaiting a Supreme Court decision on this very thing in connection with May ending...

Thanks to all for describing their varied experiences concerning getting, being refused, or suddenly having an Arg bank account closed on them - ugh .. Thank you, Bajo_cera, for your answer, information, anti-immigration measures' effect upon the Central Bank's regulations related to the issue...

Bajo_Cero, In 2012, we were instructed by Argentine Immigration that as new 'pensionistas' moving to Arg, we would be required: -to produce a document provided by our Canadian pensions' payor that we were entitled to those and to state their sums; and -to obtain from our Canadian bank its...

In 1980, I, a Canadian, married in London a Briton with whom I'd been living for 8 years in the English countryside. He was a botanist, I a member of an ancient British Guild of Crafsmen working with textiles After our civil wedding in our new London borough in a beautiful room, a month later...

citygirl's account is not at all far-fetched. There are far more grievous similar accounts, all of them true. British Immigration law was amended in 2011 (under PM May when she was the Home Office Minister). The changes were draconian. They served to split couples from living together; made it...