Leave the UK & buy a property in France?

Possibly not a good idea if you don’t have a lucrative job lined up as it is never advantageous to be destitute in a foreign country and definitely not if you cannot speak the language fluently.

The top section of France is beautiful - mainly because it rains a lot as is damned chilly. Possibly the loveliest countryside to drive through - the French seem to love the land they work even though the shops and farms always appear to be closed.  It is awful seeing ponies in the fields with their heads hanging down as if they are well aware that they are waiting to be sliced into steaks for the dinner table and not able to gallop off into the sunset like our forest ponies can. At least cows ask for it by hanging around dumbly waiting for whatever happens to them - milking, mincing, roasting or moulded into a pair of shoes, handbag & an overcoat to match.

I don’t care for horse meat - accidentally tried it once - never again - same taste as all steaks, just an odd stringy texture. But then, I have tasted many real French foods and freely admit that I don’t care for them. I much prefer the purity of Spanish and Italian foods which don’t include quite so much messing around and certainly they don’t sling in the most unfortunate top and bottom parts of animals into the cook pot - frogs back legs, pigs wizzle, brains, slimy grisly snails... 

The French eat some strange foods .....