Thank you, vik. What you are proposing is, of course, the most sensible thing to do with regard to money, which is what I need. However, being fairly adventurous by nature, I feel opposed to the idea. I really want to learn French, I am really fed up with my home town, and I really feel better experiencing something new and challenging. Travelling the French countryside looking for work sounds good; it's just a pity if I won't find anything.

So, I would stay in my home town and find work here (I'm sure I could) if I knew it would be hard to find something in France. But I also happen to be an optimist, and I feel quite certain that something money-bringing will turn up in France.

We'll see.

But you got me thinking, and I will seriously reconsider leaving over the next 40 hours, when my plane is scheduled to depart. Time will show.