My experience of British pensioners on the continent is that they are overall very pleasant people to be around and do contribute to local life, even if it sometimes includes opening a pub next to the local café. Not all of them are living caricatures in Benidorm, far from it.

Yes, in my other comment I make fun of their cuisine but it’s all good sport.

I grew up in south west France. A lot of properties or village even would have disappeared without rich Londoner. I don’t resend them a bit. Even the more obtuse one.

Well, British cuisine is fair game.

Really? Hilarious, given the sorry state of the English cuisine. Idk, maybe I’m heavily biased as French.