Owning your own home

Really? I rode around there on my first solo cycle tour aged seventeen. Gorgeous Normandy lanes and hedgerows, friendly people, I have great memories of that countryside, it's not unlike Norfolk come to think of it. Blimey, it's mAking me ponder, my terraced house is a bog standard walk-in, you know when you open the front door straight into the living room, downstairs bathroom, tiny garden. For the same price you get three acres, outbuildings that could be converted to gites, gorgeous lanes to cycle down. Mmmmmmm.

yep, i'm in a hamlet near gavray. its likely a good time to buy there, but factor in relatively high renovation costs if needed.