[block123]

Hello!

So I have been reading up on the prior posts about France and found some of the data sheets useful but was hoping to get your guys opinion on my situation....

Basically I am going to move in a few weeks to France for the summer (apron 3 months). I currently speak ZERO French but was hoping to make it my summer goal to do intensive lessons for the whole summer and improve as much as I can, while doing a lot of gaming on the side....(for fun and to improve the french)

Background: I am hoping to spend around 2K per month on fun/partying. I usually use Tinder, etc, to game (beyond the girls I meet when I'm out) so I typically like to live in larger cities (300K+) so there are sufficient quantity of chicks. Also I don't like living in tiny cities because I run into the same chicks everywhere and that can be problematic....

My goal for summer is to be doing French classes 4+ hours a day and ideally going out with French chicks to improve my french as quickly as possible....obviously it would be really easy to hook up with foreign chicks all summer but I know my French won't improve if I do that at all----so I am concerned about going to a city like Nice, Cannes, etc, which I know will be crawling with hot foreign tourists that will be easy to game in English.

I'm also a bit concerned about living in a large internal city (Toulouse, Lyon) because although they are fairly large I have read in prior posts that most young french people go on vacation to the coast for the summer....but i'm not sure the extent to which this is true?

It would be sick to live by the beach but I don't necessarily need it. In my best case scenario i'd go somewhere with (1) friendly french people (2) lots of french students (3) good party scene (4) not crazy expensive like Paris (5) beaches

Any ideas? Thanks for your thoughts in advance. Big fan of this forum....!

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(05-04-2016 08:54 PM)block123 Wrote:  

Hello!

So I have been reading up on the prior posts about France and found some of the data sheets useful but was hoping to get your guys opinion on my situation....

Basically I am going to move in a few weeks to France for the summer (apron 3 months). I currently speak ZERO French but was hoping to make it my summer goal to do intensive lessons for the whole summer and improve as much as I can, while doing a lot of gaming on the side....(for fun and to improve the french)

Background: I am hoping to spend around 2K per month on fun/partying. I usually use Tinder, etc, to game (beyond the girls I meet when I'm out) so I typically like to live in larger cities (300K+) so there are sufficient quantity of chicks. Also I don't like living in tiny cities because I run into the same chicks everywhere and that can be problematic....

My goal for summer is to be doing French classes 4+ hours a day and ideally going out with French chicks to improve my french as quickly as possible....obviously it would be really easy to hook up with foreign chicks all summer but I know my French won't improve if I do that at all----so I am concerned about going to a city like Nice, Cannes, etc, which I know will be crawling with hot foreign tourists that will be easy to game in English.

I'm also a bit concerned about living in a large internal city (Toulouse, Lyon) because although they are fairly large I have read in prior posts that most young french people go on vacation to the coast for the summer....but i'm not sure the extent to which this is true?

It would be sick to live by the beach but I don't necessarily need it. In my best case scenario i'd go somewhere with (1) friendly french people (2) lots of french students (3) good party scene (4) not crazy expensive like Paris (5) beaches

Any ideas? Thanks for your thoughts in advance. Big fan of this forum....!

Arcachon (close to Bordeaux) might be the right choice for you.

[block123]

How do you figure? Would love to hear about your experiences there.....I generally tend to stray from towns of 12,000! Heard Bordeaux was cool too.

[McBain]

Tough thing to answer, since by definition during the summer students are out of the cities. Lots of non-coastal cities (Toulouse, Lyon) will be dead, defninitely.
I would advise the southwest, very touristic area, but thanks to the foreign tourists (from Germany, Netherlands, UK...), people might be used to speaking some English.
It is also the region for surf spots and everything that comes with them.

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(05-04-2016 11:24 PM)block123 Wrote:  

How do you figure? Would love to hear about your experiences there.....I generally tend to stray from towns of 12,000! Heard Bordeaux was cool too.

With up-scale Arcachon, you'd have the best of two worlds: (elegant) beach-resort world and big city world (being conveniently close to Bordeaux). Safe, beautiful, unpolluted, too... A bit expensive though, but you should be ok with your 2000 euros.

[Lime]

Southwest is good yes. Why not 4-6 weeks French language course in Biarritz? Great for party and surf. Also, while surfer dudes are competition in terms girls, the Southwest attracts no annoying British and Russia tourists etc. It looks like the Southwest does not attract lower IQ people haha.

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(05-06-2016 01:55 AM)Lime Wrote:  

Southwest is good yes. Why not 4-6 weeks French language course in Biarritz? Great for party and surf. Also, while surfer dudes are competition in terms girls, the Southwest attracts no annoying British and Russia tourists etc. It looks like the Southwest does not attract lower IQ people haha.

Biarritz would be a great Summer option, but it is one of the most expensive (beautiful) cities in France.

By the way, before accusing Russians of having low IQs, play chess with any one of them... Russians depicted by Hollywood are low-IQ, but Russians in real life are far from stupid, in general.

[ucla4]

Nice, Villefranche sur mer and montpellier are good options. Argeles sur mer is supposed to be good too. Maybe spend the first 2 weeks travelling around and just finding somewhere you like.

[Lime]

Haha IQ remark had nothing to do with Russians. It is just that you never see BOTH groups in Southwest France.

[DecentFella]

Depends on what your goal is .. If you want to move into a French city and experience authentic French charm and way of life .. you are spoilt for diverse choices .. read up on France and select depending on your personality and interests . Go alps Annecy , Grenoble or Lyon for the mountains and hike , Coted'azur for the vegation , beach and wine , north and calais Lille for the weirdness haha!

If you are looking to take the easier and more fun route and hang out with expats and a few french girls whose paths cross regularly with expats or who consciously makes an effort to hang out with foreigners living in expat towns, seems like what you are after .. If that is your criteria choose NICE eyes closed ! Cannes and most of the other southern towns in France will have locals annoyed at the Tourists and the tourists themselves would be families mostly , a few girls travelling with their childhood or best girlfriends to lay on the beach , read a book , eat an apple and go back to their rented apartment etc . Logistics are simply not good and also the whole region is expensive due to the presense of the jet set elite and upper middle class middle aged holidaymakers from all over EUrope and America .

That's why Nice is so unique and convinient . You will get a lot of everything present in all of the other coastal towns but it's a much bigger city and has a HUGE expat population in the summer . A lot of which will be language students from all around Europe, scandinivia, US , Russia , some hot Lebanese and other French Arabic colonial girls , even Australians . Every Kebab shop and Irish pubs you will hear hipsterish brashy young people speaking English .. It is a huge town where you can also game on Tinder and isolate some English speaking local frenchies who can take you out and give a bit of the authentic experience .

There is a Pub called Wayne's which is the Mecca of pickups any day of the year in Nice .. particularly during the summer when it's frankly overcrowded . Filled to the brim with expats , holidaymakers and you can also catch live football with english commenatry I think . You will meet a lot of Yacht, Ship, Sailor crews ... waitresses , hostesses etc etc whose ship would be at the Harbour and they would come down to get drunk and get laid . Often accompanied by other male or female coworkers but they have something like a backpackers code between them and it's normal for them to split the moment someone catches their fancy .

Another place already mentioned is Biarritz which is the french basque country and the French version of pamplona is nearby (where over 100k people gather for running of the bulls and it's total music festival vibe during taht period , extremely favourable time to increase your notch count) as is the spanish coast and Pamplona . You could decide to stay at a Hostel there just for the pick ups .. During the summer its full of horny French tourists as well as world travellers . Lots of water activities to keep you interested and you could also check out the bordering spain .

Unless you go to a small town or Lille , France is overall expensive . Cannes and Monaco and St.Tropez will obviously be slightly more expensive than NICE but nice itself is also not cheap . However on 2k a month you would live grand hanging out with studnets whose budget would be half yours .. unless you are doing Dinner dates regularly with salaried 28 yr olds .. you will be living very comfortably the student lifestyle .