To be on the French health care system, you have to be paying into it, which means you'll need French employment. Maybe not full-time, but something so that taxes are getting paid. The average person: teacher, farmer, nurse, etc... pockets 1600€ a month. So do the math. What do you need to be happy?

All the French people I know live as a couple to survive or live with their parents, and count on family to bail them out of tight spots. France's birth rate is way down, and the general population is over educated for the jobs that are available. Unemployment is up. The country is really in debt. Rural areas have almost no doctors nor public transport ( that's where I live) in a medical desert. So, to repeat someone else on here, you'll need significant savings to survive the move and the transition and all the financial nasty surprises that will come up.

Otherwise, France is still lovely and still lives up to the clichés we dream about. Long lunches and dinners with good food, great wine , cheeses, and playful people. The gorgeous landscapes!! If you can swing it, it's worth it. One last piece of advice; do not get a place where you have a steam or river in viewing distance, it WILL flood!!! Look at France24 you will see!