Je Suis Un Croissant: An American Family's Move to France | Podcast Guru

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Je Suis un Croissant follows one very average American family — two parents, a tween daughter, and two very good dogs — as they walk away from the hamster wheel of suburban American life and rebuild it 5,000 miles away in France. Each week, Tara pulls back the curtain on the real decision-making behind the move: the countries they ruled out (sorry, Australia), the secret they kept for months, and the logistics nobody warns you about, from French tax residency to learning a new language on Duolingo

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Send us Fan Mail The season one finale of Je Suis un Croissant picks up where Episode 7 left off. Tara is back in France, in a house she'd seen exactly once, and two days later the good girls arrive, delivered straight to the front door. For the first time since August, everyone is under one roof. Then comes the waiting. Tara takes listeners through living on rented furniture, a first round of holidays without their own things, and the household shipment that took almost four months to arrive...

27 MIN

Going Back Alone

Send us Fan Mail Episode 6 ended with Tara on a plane, alone, leaving her husband and daughter in a hotel room in a town they’d known for two weeks. Episode 7 is what was waiting on the other side: the house they’d lived in for fourteen years, the only home Miss Tween had ever known, and two weeks to empty it. Tara walks back into a house that looks almost normal, except the dining table is gone and the fridge is empty. Then comes the list: a dumpster, a storage shed she had completely forgot...

23 MIN

Two Weeks to Find a Life

Send us Fan Mail Episode 5 ended with Miss Tween walking back into the hotel after her first day of school. Episode 6 covers the thirteen days that followed, before Tara had to fly back to the US alone and leave her husband and daughter in a hotel in a town they’d known for less than a week. The family lived in a hotel room with a kitchenette that couldn’t really cook anything, and they hauled their laundry down the street to a laundromat. With help from a relocation specialist provided by he...

19 MIN

A Place Where Horses Have the Right of Way

Send us Fan Mail Four episodes ago, Tara promised to explain how the family ended up somewhere "horses have the right of way," and then didn't mention it again. Episode 5 opens by explaining it: the rule is real, it's narrower than you'd guess, and it comes with its own speed limit for the horses. Then the family gets on the plane: fourteen bags, the best friend who was there at every stage of the move, in-flight movies, tears (happy and scared), and a flight attendant who teaches Miss Tween ...

17 MIN

Cutting It Close

Send us Fan Mail "Cutting It Close" picks up the thread Tara left dangling three episodes ago: what does the visa process actually look like once the job offer is real? The short answer is that it works. The longer answer is a month of Tara’s life she’d like back. Her husband's Talent Passport application covers the whole family, which sounds simple until you try to book three people through a third-party scheduling contractor that only shows availability one person at a time. After three fai...

21 MIN