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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 7924193, member: 100459&quot;]I don&#039;t know what your experience has been with France, but mine was first hand.&nbsp; I lived in Verdun and a small town and base.&nbsp; While in Verdun, I had no contact because I did everything on the base.&nbsp; However, when my father was transferred to a small base on the outside of a small town of Brienne La Vie (I&#039;m not good on spelling French names).&nbsp; Due to the lack of housing on base, we had to live on the &quot;economy&quot; as the military called it.&nbsp; My father found a house that was split in two.&nbsp; We lived on one side and a French family lived on the other.&nbsp; My parents had to deal with 4 teenage children a 14 year old boy 15 year old girl, a 17 year old boy, and an eighteen year old girl.&nbsp; There was a constant battle between our home and theirs. I know we were loud sometimes, but the youngest 3 were in school at Verdun, 90 miles away.&nbsp; They call the French Police on my family several times.&nbsp; At 16, I had to sign up with the French draft, so that if I was still living in France when I was 18, I would have to serve in the French Military.&nbsp; President/General Degaulle (sp?) decided that they wanted autonomy while we were living there.&nbsp; He would not sign up with NATO (as I recall).&nbsp; He cancelled all debts of funds that the United States had loaned them.&nbsp; Finally, he closed all the U.S. bases in France.&nbsp; We were forced to move to Germany the night of my high school graduation.</p><p>What&#039;s there to like?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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