You’ve already got experience of living with big cats, yet never travelled outside France? 🙀

You’ve been here before, haven’t you? (Unless all this 👆🏼is a common feeling among young people where you are)

I has a confuse: are you asking if you could stick with your American college but actually live in an EU state while you study online? Don’t think so, as any student visa is for studying with a domestic institution. Also, time spent on a student visa is rarely counted towards a longer term residency permit, I think. Consult your chosen states’ individual immigration website pages…

No, please! Your poor child shouldn’t be dragged out of school for such a reason and for such a long period. Somerset must be one of the loveliest parts of England in winter; is there nothing more you can do to improve your experience of it at all? Nobody adores being cold, but winter living isn’t impossible in England’s climate, surely. Not dismissing your feelings, I just think tearing the family apart (annually) over this would be a very bad idea indeed. (Didn’t you discuss this antipathy to a different climate with your English husband before the move?)

When you say ‘register as a traveller’, what exactly do you mean? The term is ambiguous and I’ve probably imagined the wrong meaning.

Sounds like it’ll be an idyllic retirement in a very relaxing new country 🤣

Your missing word is ‘idealistic’, and what you need is a time machine so you could join the long trail of English hippies circa 1970 all heading for the wild, unpopulated far western peninsulas of Ireland. (Many are still there, as are their offspring, yea! unto the third generation.) This influx had a big effect on the development of modern Ireland, in a quiet, slow, and peaceful way. It also gave the 1970s an extraordinary uprising of artistic talent and growth, with a flowering of the visual arts that transformed the cultural scene.

Did you know that England, Scotland, and Wales (and yeah, Northern Ireland) are one block, where immigration administration is concerned? There aren’t three or four different setups and rules.