“How is it,” a local pig farmer asked me a few a years ago, “that we locals all want to get out of here, and you northern European city dwellers want to buy up our old farmhouses and move in?” It is a part, I suppose, of the urban, middle-class northern European dream – the pursuit of the sun by day and silence by night.
近几十年法国国家的进步引发了人们从乡村迁往城市的潮流。“怎么回事？”一个当地农夫在一年前问我，“我们这些当地人都想离开这里，你们这些北方的城市人却想买下我们的屋子搬进来住？”我想这大概是北边那些欧洲城市里的中产阶级的梦想——白天晒晒太阳，晚上清静入梦。