I told friends I was moving to France for a year. It’s now 4 years later, and I’m building a house in this village of 1,200 people.
After Lynne Garell’s husband died of cancer, she told friends she was moving to France for a year. She needed a new adventure, she told them. She arrived in south-central France with a 12-month visa, a lease for an 800-euro-a month two-bedroom apartment in a village of 1,200 people, knowing no one. Four years later,…