Expat life - life on the Riviera on a budget of a student

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Expat on the French Riviera, it may seem a glamorous life, but when funds are low and tight finances, you can maintain your lifestyle?

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For me it was easy - I have reorganized my lifestyle trendsetters in fashion in London, living on the edge of Primrose Hill, an artistic lifestyle in the budget of a student "ghetto artists," the old city of Nice. My French partner and I left the UK and entered the south of France in the summer of 2008.

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If wearrived, it was summer, and it was like a party every day. On our doorstep is the famous Cours Saleya market square, a wonderful atmosphere, it is - the coffee company. We often ate twice a day, maybe lunch on the beach, then dinner at night. But after a few months ago, we realized that we lived exotic far beyond our means and had to take stock before our current accounts and credit cards have been maximized to the limit.

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I've exceeded our costStriping work on the bases and we were able to live from 10 € per day each on food. We are very health conscious, do not rely on frozen foods or foods prepared foods supermarket. I started cooking more, and even if we make the plate, things do not heat the oven or grill, we want to survive and enjoy our meals at home more than local prices in the restaurants for tourists.

In winter, lunch eaten at home-Veggie Soup (tomato and basil with Fresh Creampreferred species) or some dish of eggs. In summer, it would be tomato and basil, mozzarella, boiled egg and Nicoise salad. We have some simple pasta dishes, bacon and mushrooms, risotto with mushrooms and sausage and lentil stew. We were warm chorizo ​​salad and calamari. Carbohydrates under control, we half (half) stick every day to € 0.40.

The few British traditions that we buy is Earl Grey tea and the occasional tin of beans. As we work at home, awhat we treasure is our daily journey through the coffee shop's outdoor cafe. When you're cold, we sometimes have tea and biscuits about 16 hours or pop around the local bakery and spray on a delicious French pastries.

Overall, we're both much happier and healthier here. The air is cleaner than London, and the wonderful relaxed atmosphere allows our student-type new kind of expat life.

Expat life - life on the Riviera on a budget of a student

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