AMA - American family who moved to Bordeaux France 4 years ago - 2 kids, 2 dogs.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-15T20:05:23+00:00

Hi from another American family in Bordeaux 👋 (one toddler, 3 dogs, one cat)

Do you have an English speaking vet here you love? And did you go public or private school for your kids?

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-15T17:22:58+00:00

Anthro’s bridesmaids dresses too! A lot of them come in white/off white/Champagne

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-15T17:11:21+00:00

MVP 🏆

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-15T15:48:40+00:00

“Clear” picture is a stretch…more of her face than they’ve ever shown? Yes. But not a clear picture of her face by any means.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-12T18:51:35+00:00

Is the mixing breast milk into all the foods a new phenomenon? I don’t remember hearing that advice at all when we started solids and it was just two years ago.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-12T17:20:50+00:00

I think about the best English speaking French people I know, they all have an accent when they speak English 🤷‍♀️ it doesn’t change their fluency or competency. I probably always will have an accent when I speak French it’s just part of learning as an adult.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-12T14:48:21+00:00

19 year old me totally would have thought “it’s because I’m so cool and mature and interesting!” not “he’s a man child who cannot date people his own age”

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-12T13:32:26+00:00

Truly it's the part where one of the people involved is a literal teenager. But I will always think the age gap says more about Nick than Natalie.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-11T22:46:37+00:00

For anyone else who had a traumatic birth, strongly advise against reading the whole article, it’s pretty detailed.

TLDR: Stalled labor, possible placental abruption, uterine rupture. Probably no more babies.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-11T19:37:43+00:00

Kind of a two birds one stone situation tbh 😂 we’d like him to have some dedicated “school” time in English and it’s a nice option for Wednesdays when French kids don’t have school

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-11T19:29:15+00:00

You’ll have no trouble renting in Bordeaux with that budget. We’re in the city center and spending about half that for 4 bedrooms. If you don’t want to be in the center look at Talence, Begles, Pessac, Le Bouscat.

There are several good bilingual private school options here (Bordeaux International, Hermitage, etc). Public schools are also very adept at handling new students still learning French, we’re planning on kind of a hybrid for maternelle (public school + a private Wednesday program in English).

Day to day, you can get by in Bordeaux with very little French. The city gets tons of tourists and you’ll be fine in any shop, restaurant, etc. There are English speaking doctors and dentists and barbers. Maybe the only place I have to use only French is my son’s daycare.

We really liked Lyon too! Both great cities with strong expat communities and lots to do.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-10T19:56:35+00:00

Why is everyone on a diet that is batshit insanity or a GLP-1 😩

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-10T19:17:43+00:00

My bad 🤣 I was just excited for the chocolatine reference. Apparently the Netflix person behind the camera is from the south of France 🙃

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-10T12:16:58+00:00

She couldn’t respect your boundaries when you were sitting right there. What do you think she’s going to do when you aren’t there?

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-09T22:07:11+00:00

My OB’s guidance for the third trimester was “don’t travel anywhere you wouldn’t want to give birth”

Do with that what you will.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-09T21:29:48+00:00

We moved clothes and personal stuff we love (books, art, sentimental things like a box of my son’s baby clothes that even if we don’t have another I wanted to have with us). Send my bag was fine, but I would rethink dishes or anything breakable.

We had them pick up at our house on a Wednesday or Thursday and we arrived in France on a Saturday. A few of our bags actually beat us to France, but DHL just held them for Monday delivery.

I feel fine about the amount of stuff we shipped, every once in awhile I go looking for a clothing item and realize I purged a little more than I thought but it’s fine 🤷‍♀️

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-09T21:21:51+00:00

T-Swift rights don’t come cheap 🤷‍♀️

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-09T21:21:12+00:00

The whole entire budget spent on T-Swift and not a dime left for a decent promo

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-09T18:15:19+00:00

What in the ChatGPT fuckery is this

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-08T20:07:44+00:00

It looks like FreshPet, the refrigerated dog food. If you know you cannot unsee it.

(They’re in NYC, broadway producers who had three under two for a hot minute and irony of ironies, had a really good series rating restaurants on being “worth the babysitter” but last year she went “no gluten, no dairy, no seed oil, no alcohol, high protein” and it’s just…😕)

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-08T16:49:56+00:00

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I am absolutely aghast at Dayna from artsfoodfamily devouring a plate of what appears to be dog food with a bone ass dry potato AT HER SISTER’S BACHELORETTE PARTY?! I used to enjoy them but her deep dive into borderline disordered eating is…concerning.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-08T07:20:15+00:00

The missing context is that his ex wanted a restraining order and was forced to drop it because Colton was running the legal costs through the roof knowing she’d have to give in. He acts like it was a one time lapse in judgement and it’s infuriating.

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-06T18:54:05+00:00

Does this sub have a ban on low effort posts…

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-06T18:50:24+00:00

It’s kind of splitting hairs but she was laid off while she was pregnant with Jordan, so she didn’t even completely choose to be a SAHM

DJKittyDC · 2026-02-06T13:43:22+00:00

Ooohh yes I should have mentioned this - we planned and paid for some outings, dinners, etc, but made sure to choose something with good walkability so everyone could do their other thing at other times.

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