My house is on the Normandy coast and I need Eurostar to get back to London regularly to see the children and grandchildren. I can't see myself relocating to Paris. We have the use of a small flat in Paris but we are used to have a nice garden in Normandy.
In the good old days, when we were still members of the EU, I sometimes sbought things from Amazon.de because of availability or price. There is a Samsung tablet near me which saved a bit (at the "expense" of having to switch default language as I set it up - taking about two seconds extra).
I'm working my way towards something like that (but calabria, not normandy). I don't really like cities, life in them feels too much about visible consumption, materialism. And this include London which I ended up paradoxically spending a huge chunk of my adult life in.
I found my ideal 54 years ago, only just inside London, and why I've never moved since.
Used ev market is odd. Have been looking at used ev's on autotrader (mines 8 years old @ 150k miles, am anxious about getting deeper into banger territory and incurring big expense). 2018 leafs do go for circa 20k, as do zoe ze50; for 10k more there's kona, Nero, mg zs, id3, perhaps used model 3. All have specific drawbacks (model 3 unknown entity and model s reliability was not great, as some reports say about id3, mg seem to corrode, zoe suspensions may be dodgy, early leaf batteries passively cooled). Bit of a minefield if one plan to keep it long, do high miles.
Passive cooling isn't a big deal though for most users. Even my latest series 2018 model has no battery temperature regulation, but with a maximum charge rate of 50kW from any rapid charger, it isn't going to self destruct.
Starmer has to prove that his way is better than Johnson's way to the brexiters. What is the point of another referendum until you have got the right PM?
As far as I can see, my vote will go PC or Labour - depending on circumstances. I want Crabb out - mostly because he is a tory.
I felt sorry for him. It felt a belated pitch to the red wall. An attempt to sidestep a tory trap. Boris saying to the great British electorate "look, labour want to deny your vote, democracy by taking you back into the EU against your will". Can you imagine trying to pitch the red wall? It must be like a conversation with my tax dodging, benefit cheating, racist, conservative plumber.
Obviously I would wish the UK back inside the EU, but I think Starmer is making the only pragmatic play possible . The Johnson /Truss NI Protocols Bill is going to be a shambles. At some stage people like the CBI are going to say so,Of course the Tories don't listen to any informed voices in Ireland or NI including their chambers of commerce and Farmers Unions .... In Tory parlance we are all just bogtrotters, but when the trade war starts the CBI will be making noises.
I think we'll be rather going for EFTA membership. Rejoining means adopting the Euro and Schengen. Too much to think about.
I see that our current government has more or less given up the propaganda that we are better out of the EU.
