An English Frenchman in France

At 63, I bought a house that needed a lot of work

A year ago - after my mother died - I took my share of the money from her house and bought a house and barn and outbuildings and land in the most remote part of France, La France Profonde. Although I was approaching pension age, I had nothing to retire from and no pension to retire to. I qualified for nothing and owned nothing, so I went. It was the outcome of a life of chaotic ADHD behaviour and what was coming had started to scare me so I did what I generally had done and invented a new way of being in the world.