Village Life: Encounter with our new neighbours
We are moving to the countryside in November. Our current house is sold and the new one is being built. The public opening of the development's showhome was last weekend so I went to have a peak on Sunday morning. I met an elderly couple there and we got chatting. They were just having a peak themselves. They live a few roads away and wanted to see what was going on in their village. They have lived there their whole life, have seen the village expand and change in front of their eyes. They explained me where they lived (I knew exactly which house they were talking about. It was the bungalow with the massive "Leave" sign during the EU referendum campaign). It made me feel so uncomfortable all of a sudden... You see, I am French. I worry about how people feel about having a foreigner as a neighbour. I have never felt this way before, but I do now, since Brexit... They asked me where I was from. I explained them that we only lived a few miles away. This ...