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Fired Up in France

Suzi

Bonjour 👋. I’m American and have been living in Dijon, France since 2008. In my newsletter, I share useful info about and reflections on life in France. 🇫🇷

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18 Years in France: 18 reasons I’m still here

Bonjour tout le monde, Today, May 22, or 22 May (let’s be honest, it’s so much more logical to have the day first, then the month, n’est-ce pas ?) marks 18 years since I moved to France. My husband and I got married in early June, so I arrived a few weeks ahead of time, to… I don’t know what… He had basically planned everything for the wedding before I even arrived, and when I asked what it would be like, he told me, “just a normal wedding.” Uh huh. Our images of what constitutes a “normal...

5 days ago • 4 min read

Bonjour tout le monde, My husband and I are gearing up for another one of our city visits this weekend, taking advantage of yet another long May weekend (the second of four😀). I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but we’re heading up north, to Ch’ti territory, land of famous fries and Maroilles cheese. Every time we visit a city for one of these videos, I do a fair amount of research before we even leave the house so I kind of know what to look for when we’re on the ground. I thought it would...

21 days ago • 1 min read

Bonjour tout le monde ! This is the very first installment of my much-hyped newsletter! Ça y est ! Here we go! 😊 Since I started my YouTube channel last year, a lot of people have reached out asking me questions that are related specifically to relocation; visas, moving pets, rental apartment hunting, things I maybe once had some legitimacy talking about, but which for me, after over 17 years in France, are now sort of distant memories. I can still help out as much as possible and talk about...

8 months ago • 2 min read