My Dad and I went to Agen today for some traditional last minute Xmas shopping. Agen is a small town of 34,000 inhabitants in the south of France between Bordeaux and Toulouse. This is typical Gilets Jaunes territory and we noticed quite a few cars proudly displaying fluorescent vests on their dashboards. As we wandered around the relatively empty town centre I wondered if these small towns have a future. If I was not living in a city Paris, Lyon, Nantes or Strasbourg I would prefer to live in a village of even in the country side rather than a small town. Considering that you can now live in the middle of nowhere and still have access to anything you need thanks to Amazon why would you choose to live in a small town which has neither the buzz of the big city nor the absolute calm of the countryside. I can imagine the world in 100 years being composed of concentrated mega-cities and tiny villages spread out across the land everybody connected through lightning fast internet and served by armies of self driving delivery vans. It would be pretty cool!
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