[ranc1d]

One thing to consider do you speak any of these languages (i.e. French, Italian or Spanish) or at least willing to learn?

Just an opinion and my experience of course but I think learning the language greatly helps from meeting new people and to integrating into that country. Of course you could live in a tourist town which have a lot of English speaking inhabitants but then house prices are probably going to be higher and you're probably not getting as an authentic experience

[boricj]

We're not quite as bad as we used to be, but step outside well travelled zones and you'll have trouble finding French people which are actually fluent in English.

If you don't want to learn the national language and want to live somewhere good and quiet, out of the three countries I think France is probably going to be the most challenging one.

Source: am French and lives around both a well travelled town and a good and quiet one.