International Living Community

Long term one year visa possible in some European countries, but country specific. Does NOT cover several countries. There is a US France agreement pré Schengen still applicable.

Seriously, China running the Canal?

May be you should not généralisé and pay attention to more detailed info. In Spain locals are fed up with increase RE prices linked to multiple properties used as airbnb and no longer available for the long term rental market and over tourism in large cities such as Barcelona. For those very reasons I would look at moving somewhere else. Some of the Brit tourists are unfortunately not well behaved: read drunk, obnoxious and making no effort to learn any Spanish. In the Paris metro, you always need to be careful and alert, nothing new alas, was already the case in the early 80's when I was working there as well as being aware of bag snatching. Some areas of Marseille are indeed plague by drug dealing and other Nice ties. A few cities in the USA can compète with that too. Common sense dictates finding an area where you feel confortable, not writing off whole countries on the basis of some bad areas.