Peggy Levaux, 42, joined the ranks of the 112,000 French residents crossing the border every day to work on the Luxembourg side. Here we say more “work at lux“. Last August, this speech therapist definitively closed her practice in Guénange, Moselle, to start a new professional life in real estate, fifty kilometers further north.

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She is now an employee of the agency founded with her spouse and four partners in Luxembourg city, on the Kirchberg plateau where the European institutions are located. In this metropolis, properties have an average selling price of 1.5 million euros. “After eighteen years of career, I receive 2,200 euros net monthly and had to constantly increase my hourly volume to maintain the same level of remuneration. The health crisis did not help matters», Explains this professional.

The attraction of salaries, but also of retirement pensions and family allowances,