Hello all, hopefully someone can help me. My wife and I would like to move to France to live for some number of years. We're both quite keen on eventually obtaining French citizenship and would like to make sure that we have a good chance of doing so in the future if we are to spend a number of years there.

My wife is from Mexico and I am from the US. We are financial investors and can show adequate income/financial stability to satisfy the French authorities and need not work. As far as I can tell, we should be able to meet any and all requirements they may have to grant us residence visas.

The trickier part is understanding how difficult it may be for us to apply for citizenship in 5 years. The last thing we want to do is assimilate into a culture and spend a good portion of our young lives in a country that may kick us out, particularly if said country is somewhere that we would like to be citizens of. Does anyone have any insight into how difficult it would be for 2 such people to eventually obtain citizenship if we do assimilate into the local culture and are self-sufficient financially?

It really is important to us that if sometime down the line we will have the opportunity to become citizens.

Thanks in advance,
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