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<\/p>\nGoing to live abroad is quite an adventure. Between administrative formalities and unexpected events, the support of a relocation company can be invaluable, so who better than those who have experienced this situation to talk about it? We have given the floor to expats who relied on France Global Relocation to settle in France. Zubair tells us today why he has chosen to live in France with his family.<\/p>\n
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Zubair comes from Bangladesh. He worked in the military and later for the United Nations Development Programme. He migrated to France in 2018 to give his daughter a better future and to benefit from a more favourable environment. \u201cI wanted a comfortable life (\u2026) and enjoy the time of my life. In Bangladesh, I was very well paid (\u2026) but the stress was very high, and I didn\u2019t have any personal life. I was always busy.\u201d<\/em> He now works in Paris for Masa Group as an engineer specialized in software simulation and AI-assisted analysis in order to train civil or military decision-makers to crisis management. This is a captivating job, but it leaves time to enjoy special moments with his family.<\/p>\n For Zubair, it was a bit difficult to organize his expatriation<\/strong>. \u201cFirst, I was totally puzzled\u2026 what to do, how to do?\u201d<\/em> He had asked for the EU Blue Card so that his family could come to France at the same time, but getting this visa took a long time. Meanwhile, he had to leave the army and housing, look for schools for his daughter, do papers, etc. \u201cAt first, I did it on my own, but after I had a job offer, I didn\u2019t want to deal with all those things (\u2026). I wanted to be comfortable with my migration and not worry about details, so I contacted 7 or 8 agencies online, and among those I liked what France Global Relocation was proposing.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Zubair chose a complete package<\/strong>. \u201cI would say they supported me with everything. Mari-Liis took care of administrative things \u2013 she is a friend now. Suzanne dealt with Social Security and Ameli account, and Gwen accommodation.\u201d<\/em> When he got the visa, we helped him to open a bank account and find a housing. \u201cIf you want to rent a house, you need an account. If you want to open an account, you need a house. For a person who is coming here, it\u2019s just awful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Zubair was very nervous the week before the departure. He had already lived abroad, in China and Liberia, but it wasn\u2019t the same. \u201cAfrica was a bit stressful. I had mamba snakes riding around in my camp <\/em>? but I knew that I am coming back to my usual life. But with this one, it\u2019s totally different (\u2026). I was leaving my full life behind and starting a new life from zero. It is like jumping into a void.\u201d<\/em> Fortunately, his wife supported him because she wanted to leave their stressful life too. As for their daughter, \u201cshe didn\u2019t want to come at first because she had to lose her friends, she had to lose her school and everything. Then she noted she could go to Disneyland whenever she likes, so she accepted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Even though their close family and friends were sad to see them go, they all filled the departure lounge on \u201cD-Day\u201d. This was a highly emotional moment<\/strong>. And it was only a start. \u201cI was on mid-transit in Doha when I learned I didn\u2019t have a temporary housing (\u2026). I had booked an apartment in Paris 16, and that was probably fraudulently. There was no apartment of anything.\u201d<\/em> Zubair was a victim of a fraud on the Airbnb platform. He was lucky to have a friend accommodating him till he urgently booked another housing and a storage unit for all his luggage ?.<\/p>\n Despite this stressful experience, the family managed to settle in. As Zubair is very attentive to his daughter\u2019s education, he had taken on several schools where parents are truly concerned about the future of their children. He was surprised by the level of competition in schooling. \u201cShe was taken in a good school, a French bilingual school (\u2026). They had one vacancy (\u2026), we were lucky because some parents fight for two years to get their kids in that school.\u201d It is a complete success, \u201cshe likes friends, and learn (\u2026). My daughter became fluent in French within four months.\u201d<\/em> (#dadoftheyear ?)<\/p>\n Then we helped them to find accommodation nearby. \u201cGwen searched for seven houses for us. She convinced us to visit all and we liked the seventh one. (\u2026) We had one day. They looked after everything: finding the papers, working with agency\u2026 everything.\u201d<\/em> Despite our support, Zubair regrets endless administrative formalities<\/strong>. \u201cIt is very very long. (\u2026) There is no system of pursuing, of monitoring, nothing. You do your part and wait for the end of the procedure\u2026 there is nobody that you can ask what is happening, you just wait. (\u2026) For taking Internet line on Bangladesh, I just make a phone call and everything is done within one hour. For a phone line in France: one week. For my first Internet line, I had to wait for two months!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Even so, life is sweet in France. \u201cThe biggest change for me was the weekend (\u2026) because when I was in Bangladesh, every weekend I had some meetings (\u2026). So initially, I was very puzzled on the weekend. I had nothing to do.\u201d<\/em> Zubair speaks very little French but he likes French people in general, and his colleagues in particular, who are always helpful with him: \u201cthey are very soft and they like to be humane (\u2026). In France, if you have a problem and you can speak even a few words, everybody will come for a help.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n However, with a first year full of business trips, a second one dedicated to house hunting and the pandemic, Zubair and his family sometimes feel isolated. \u201cWe are very outgoing. In Bangladesh, at least four or five nights a week, we used to go to the restaurant, theatre or friends\u2019 house\u2026 Here we cannot do that, there are not many people I know (\u2026). There are two or three families we are close with, but we miss that community (\u2026). I didn\u2019t look for the expat community because I was very busy, but it was a mistake.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fgrelocation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Banladesh-1024x512.png\")
<\/p>\nStressful times\u2026<\/h2>\n
\u2026 but the result is worth it<\/h2>\n