About Onto France

So you’re thinking about moving to France. Or spending more than the usual week in Paris. Maybe you’re already here. It’s different living here, maybe more so than you expected.  Onto France would like to help you better understand the differences, ideally help you enjoy them.

There are a lot of great web sites devoted to life in France and they can give you a good oversight of what it’s like to live over here.  However, not many of them deal with small differences that can be disconcerting, cause you to stumble where you weren’t expecting to.  This blog will cover some I’ve noticed.

I’m Harvey Morgan, publisher of Onto France and a retired software developer from Houston, Texas.  I moved to France to marry a French teacher of English and we’ve lived in the Gironde (southwest France) for twenty years.  Twenty years in France means a lot of time to pick up on the differences: social codes, manners, priorities, the good, the bad and the ugly (great bread, doggy-doo on the sidewalks and paperwork).

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