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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Rural area can be walkable as well.

    I’m living in a village (~1500 people), we have one car for 3 adults and the car is used maybe once a week on average.

    Everything else is done walking or biking. Walking the kids to school taking a path along a steam of water, there is several bar and restaurants in the village center, a bakery, a small grocery shop, a local producers shop, a market, barber … I’m working remotely and I have a coworking space in the village as well.

    The streets are always busy and everyone say hi to each other.

    We just need to have less car centric spaces.



  • I’ve noticed first hand the impact of environmental factors.

    I moved from a place where I needed the car for EVERYTHING. This include taking off the garbage. Even going for a walk wasn’t possible without taking the car first.

    Most of the food I was eating was imported (mainly from the US). I was able to find few local fruits and vegetable but choices are quite limited and the supply erratic.

    Then I moved back to France, I now live in a small village where everything is available at a walking or biking distance. School, work, small grocery shop, bakery, doctor, pharmacy, coworking space, kids activity. I’m might be using the car once a week now.

    There is plenty of farmers in the area with local produces and even supermarkets have a wide selection of decent fruits and vegetables but I prefer the local producers as I can.

    I stopped working out, I have not purposely changed my eating habits but without any surprise I am in a much, much better physical shape now.