"We just said, Too much grief and no joy. There's no fun. We're struggling every day," she tells CNN. This insight captures their disillusionment with the expat experience.
"People go, 'Oh my god, the French food is so fabulous.' Yeah, if you want to eat brie, pate, pastries and French bread all day long. But who eats like that?" This illustrates their disappointment with the local culinary offerings.
Chief among the drawbacks of life in Nimes, McIsaac-Kierklo says, is that she can't often get good produce to cook with -- a stark contrast to what they expected.
The couple has struggled to make friends, McIsaac-Kierklo has not yet mastered the language, and the bureaucracies behind the healthcare system and banking system have been nigh impossible to navigate.
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