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With regards to desirable properties, certainly just over the border in Périgord pourpre, there seems to be a healthy market for châteaux amongst Brit buyers. Something to do with UK TV, perhaps 😁 Another factor in buying big, old properties is the never-ending idea that you can earn a living (or at least supplement your income) by running gîtes. Hasn't ALBF gone quiet? 🤣

Just a thought: The pig’s a*se with a wig claims he is still the legitimate President of the US. This means he is effectively running for a third term which is illegal. Surely he must admit he lost if he is to run again?

Indeed, there was a lot of resistance and the older folk wtih long memories know all about that. There are any number of roads named after resistance fighters. However I don't know much about any subsequent impact that might have had. I should speak to OH because he attended several meetings of a local history society. I think house prices have shot up but that's only my impression. There WERE a lot of Brits rushing back to the UK after Brexit but nonetheless, there are not many small properties for sale in the villages around me. I spent several month just after the pandemic looking to downsize but properties were few and prices not any that I would willingly pay. Not much in the way of vines in my area. In the past, dating back to Louis 14, wine from the next village to mine was highly priced in the court. But hectares and hectares were devastated by phylloxera and that just leaves us with green hills and valleys. We are "très valloné"🙂so you do need to be reasonably fit to do a typical longish rando. The Bergérac area is not called Périgord Pourpre for nothing if not their wines so the vineyards are to be found there and, of course, truffles in the Périgord Noir. Then we have Limousin right next door and département 16 where there are truly tracts of uncultivated areas that stretch as far as here to eternity!