One of the things that drags us back to France (and Europe in general) is the clear sense of community living that emerges and the amount of infrastructure planning and execution that exists so that large numbers of people can live in reasonable comfort with plenty of services at their disposal. We think this is a huge contrast to Australia where city “design” is almost non existent and suburbs have just spread out and out and out. This is possibly exacerbated by our experience with Canberra with its suburbs and transport system designed for cars and boring ¼ acre housing with almost no “community” development. In contrast, even here along the coast, there are quite different communities often joined at the hip, and where there are plenty of opportunities for a more human existence. These feelings especially emerge each time we think about our return to Canberra soon and our search to find where we best belong. And with climate change issues ahead of us, we feel so far behind in the need to make changes.
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