Après-Midi Recap

An and Jeff Scott and their little dog, Bella, moved from Naples on the southwest coast of Florida over a year ago to begin their new life in Nice! An started a hobby publishing videos on what was at the time “her” YouTube channel, Postcards From My Golden Years. Once Jeff retired from his long career as an award-winning architect, and they arrived in Nice, the channel became “their” YouTube channel. The name then changed to Postcards From Our Golden Years.

Over the years, the videos shared their journey: all of the planning, every step of the way, from purging all of their “stuff” back in the US, to packing, including the step by step instructions on how they applied for their long stay visas and Jeff’s humorous architectural drawing of the inside of a VFS office (since they weren’t allowed to take videos). The videos show how they applied for healthcare in France, figured out how to navigate public transportation, live their lives without a car and find all of the most important places as new residents in Nice plus a whole lot more. They’ve been sharing their lives and their discoveries, the good, the bad and the ugly, in a weekly vlog ever since.

For their presentation at Après-Midi, they talked about their moving-to-France adventure, their experiences as YouTube vloggers, and shared a special video created just for this event to tell their story.

When asked for a show of hands, about 80% of the audience, approximately 50 of our community, were already living in Nice and many had been following An and Jeff since the beginning of their adventure.

Watch the entire video of this event on our YouTube channel.

You can subscribe to their YouTube channel and join them as they continue to share their wonderful life as Expats from the USA in France: Postcards From Our Golden Years.