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Sometimes big homes are divided into two or three to accommodate all the inheritances, sometimes they are sold and the money used to build a smaller home within the commune. That is why the French are quite happy to rent when they go off as youngsters to the big cities to work one day they will return to the family commune and take their share of the family home.
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You cannot put it at risk without their permission, or a lengthy process by which a Guardian is appointed to consider the advisability of that which you plan if your children are too young to speak up for themselves. The moment you have children here, they have an interest in the family home, an interest which is protected by law.
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Followed by: âYou want to borrow half a million Euros against your childrenâs inheritance to build a swimming poolâ¦.and a tennis courtâ¦.and install central heatingâ¦.do you have your childrenâs permission to load them with this debt? Without their permission it is out of the question!ââ¦certainly three years later he was still marooned in his dirt floored pile of ancient stone work, wondering how to get himself out of his predicament. A name which would have created a flutter of flattered admiration in the UK â âReally? In my small country branch? (Promotion beckons!) What can I do for you Sir?â â in France elicited only a Gallic shrug. Thus he took himself off to his nearest (French) branch of Barclays Bank and presented his impressive visiting card. There was just one more task to perform before work could commence. The tennis court was marked out, the swimming pool ordered, and visions of Pimmâs laden summer evenings beckoned.
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He paid cash for the property, and arrived to install his wife and himself, his three children â and the nanny of course â into a series of rented mobile homes in the spectacular grounds whilst the builders turned the place into the approved Farrow and Ball version of the French country retreat. He sold his Georgian pile in Kent and bought a Perigordine farmhouse with dirt floors, an outside toilet, no heating whatsoever, and the obligatory Pigeonniere. Some years ago, the scion of a well known English banking family decided to follow the prevailing fashion and move to the Dordogne. This has caused many an ulcer and fed a fair few obese lawyers as the ex-patriot community wriggle and squirm in their efforts to disinherit the son they havenât spoken to for many a yearâ¦. Thus it is unthinkable to the French that you should have the âindividual rightâ to leave your wealth to whomever you please â of course it should stay within the family, it should go to your children, it is to your family that your first duty lies. In France, a country which has been broadly right wing (French politics are far too convoluted to make a straight left/right distinction!) over the same period, the predominating ârightâ is that of the community whether the family or the commune. Not one commentator has pointed out that there is an alternative to either government provided health care for the elderly or the private sector. Today, the âanger and outrageâ is directed at City venture capitalists who are apparently about to be personally responsible for 31,000 elderly and vulnerable people dying in their sleep from the shock of being turfed out into the street if Southern Cross Healthcare are not able to meet their âexorbitantâ rent demands for their care homes. We will come back to that one in a minute. Not one commentator pointed out why ârenting was the normâ in France. In shocked tones, announcer after announcer stated that âin futureâ young people may have to follow the French model whereby ârenting is the normâ.
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The first story was the figures which showed the paltry proportion of young people who now believe that they âwill everâ get on the property ladder â that stairway to heaven which is apparently the backbone of the British economy. It is those âindividual rightsâ which lie behind the âanger and outrageâ that displayed over two different stories which have consumed the main stream media in the past two days. How curious it is that a country such as the UK, which has been so staunchly socialist for the past 13 years, should be so obsessed with âindividual rightsâ.