Healthcare for Expats in France ,post brexit.
Discussion
I don't think residency will be a big issue. We will probably need a piece of paper from the Mairie in the future, but Brits lived here long before the EU was created.
Americans currently have to live here for 4-years to attain benefits. Having said that we know some Kiwis who started their paperwork this time last year, but seem to be going nowhere fast and they would be massive net contributors to the French economy.
I guess moving sooner, rather than waiting until March 2019, would be smarter. But do not expect a bed of Roses economy-wise. The Macron honeymoon period will fade away just as quickly as Sarko's and Hollande's. They both talked of bringing about change - but failed.
Americans currently have to live here for 4-years to attain benefits. Having said that we know some Kiwis who started their paperwork this time last year, but seem to be going nowhere fast and they would be massive net contributors to the French economy.
I guess moving sooner, rather than waiting until March 2019, would be smarter. But do not expect a bed of Roses economy-wise. The Macron honeymoon period will fade away just as quickly as Sarko's and Hollande's. They both talked of bringing about change - but failed.
rdjohn said:
I don't think residency will be a big issue. We will probably need a piece of paper from the Mairie in the future, but Brits lived here long before the EU was created.
Americans currently have to live here for 4-years to attain benefits. Having said that we know some Kiwis who started their paperwork this time last year, but seem to be going nowhere fast and they would be massive net contributors to the French economy.
I guess moving sooner, rather than waiting until March 2019, would be smarter. But do not expect a bed of Roses economy-wise. The Macron honeymoon period will fade away just as quickly as Sarko's and Hollande's. They both talked of bringing about change - but failed.
Yes, I'm young enough to not really remember that, so I guess my benchmark is entirely free movement Americans currently have to live here for 4-years to attain benefits. Having said that we know some Kiwis who started their paperwork this time last year, but seem to be going nowhere fast and they would be massive net contributors to the French economy.
I guess moving sooner, rather than waiting until March 2019, would be smarter. But do not expect a bed of Roses economy-wise. The Macron honeymoon period will fade away just as quickly as Sarko's and Hollande's. They both talked of bringing about change - but failed.
Just don't underestimate the EU's burning desire to p
s off the Brits 
Having lived in France full time since 2001 the answer, so far as I am aware, is as follows however, there are variations from area to area and individual to individual. To qualify for the permanent Carte de Sejour you need to have lived in France full time for at least the last 5 years and you need to be able to produce copious quantities of paperwork to prove it. To enjoy the benefits of the French health system you need to have declared yourself to the French tax authorities and they want to know everything about your financial affairs there is to know. We have been treated very fairly by them but we are not rich, I know others who have been less open and have later been embarrassed! Going forward, the truth is that nobody knows for certain how things will pan out as Mrs May twists and turns, hopefully she will agree to a full reciprocal guarantee of citizens' rights.
So far as the French trying to p*** of the British is concerned I can only say that without exception all our French Friends have been very sympathetic toward us regarding the shambles, xenophobia and uncertainty now ruling in our homeland, they genuinely wish we were not leaving. When I explain how many of us expats have been stripped of our vote under the 15 year rule despite still paying UK income tax, how French Guyana was added to mainland France in order to make France warmer than the UK (which it is not) and thus deny payment of the winter fuel allowance (don't need it but would have got it if we were in the UK), and how the BBC has adjusted it's satellite transmissions to stop Brits in Europe watching their output, they invariably say how pleased they are that we are staying!
So far as the French trying to p*** of the British is concerned I can only say that without exception all our French Friends have been very sympathetic toward us regarding the shambles, xenophobia and uncertainty now ruling in our homeland, they genuinely wish we were not leaving. When I explain how many of us expats have been stripped of our vote under the 15 year rule despite still paying UK income tax, how French Guyana was added to mainland France in order to make France warmer than the UK (which it is not) and thus deny payment of the winter fuel allowance (don't need it but would have got it if we were in the UK), and how the BBC has adjusted it's satellite transmissions to stop Brits in Europe watching their output, they invariably say how pleased they are that we are staying!
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