YouTube "suggested" I watch a channel called Rural France Journals. Seemed churlish not to (lockdown ennui).
It's in its infancy- 14'eps so fair, not quite 800 subscribers. All very gentle (but not totally dull). A rather intriguing South African chap who bought (2014) , unseen, a tiny house he found on the internet. It's a rather sweet 2 bedroomed house, built in 1937. In need of updating but nothing too dramatic. The chap - Leon - has obviously totally embraced and thrown himself into life in a small village in rural France...a bit south west of Limoges, think. Made loads of friends in the village, talks to everyone he encounters in the village, gets inviolved with village life and clearly feels it is home. From the little I've watched, it's all rather refreshing.
No begging bowls, no sob story, nothing other than enthusiasm about his move and how happy he is.
The reason for mentioning him is that in the intro to one of the eps I've watched he came out with a killer line in his intro to taking the viewers round his weeny house...delivered with a half-mile smile and raised eyebrow he said:
"Unlike the British vlog mafia [living] in France I do not live in a chateau..".
British vlog mafia is just so, so splendid a description that I simply had to give it s wider audience!