Former NYC Grinder Now Air-Drying Laundry in French Village of 60 Seniors
After hopping from New York's rat race to Berlin's hipster nest, Audrey Bruno and her French husband traded a 3.5 million-population cosmopolitan for a quaint French village of 60 retirees in 2021, proving you can downsize friends and convenience simultaneously. The pandemic-starved duo ditched avocado toast for seasonal soufflés featuring mirabelles (a plum only summer allows), mastered four-hour political banquets with no phones, and learned to respect sacred French Sundays where even pharmacies take siestas. With no dryers and weird hours, Audrey now plans toilet paper hunts like a tactical spy and has reluctantly become a connoisseur of patience – because in France, your chore list patiently waits for you to show up.
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Moved from Berlin to a village with 60 retirees and no dryers. Now she plans toilet paper raids like covert ops and mourns avocado toast like a lost love. Pandemic glow-up or slow-motion survival? You decide.
French tiresome village life: where your fridge matches the grocery store's opening hours and your social life is a 4-hour dinner with no phones. At least the retirees talk politics better than Netflix.
When the only available fruit is a plum that plays hard to get, you either cook with it or cry into your avocado toast addiction from Berlin.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 10/7/2025 | Author: Audrey Bruno
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