The buzz of city life or a quiet rural retreat? Gillian Harvey speaks to expats who’ve chosen to live very different lives in France

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IRIS walked slowly to the front door of her Victorian villa in Fairley, a sleepy Sussex village. It had begun, she fumed silently – the “invasion” of her home. Of course, she’d been expecting it. Her

From riverside ‘guinguettes’ to neighbourly kindness, Hilary Hodge has found the perfect blend of village charm, Paris access and French joie de vivre in Pays-de-la-Loire