Just making the point that cultural expectations are different.
This is true, in France, when you get older/retired, you move into a flat in a city, the French cannot fathom why we would retired in the countryside with big house to look after, miles away from local shop, and expensive to run.
We’re talking about in the middle of nowhere like quite a lots of houses in the UK, that are the only property in a 5 miles radius, rather than within a town/villages/hamlet.
This is true, in France, when you get older/retired, you move into a flat in a city, the French cannot fathom why we would retired in the countryside with big house to look after, miles away from local shop, and expensive to run.