The only person I have to keep up with now is myself

🇫🇷 Why I moved to France pt. 1

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Today’s post was originally a long, choppy piece summarising why I moved to France. I sent it to

Antonia Taylor

to give me her honest feedback.

I know myself well enough to know if I’m emailing it for someone else to look at - it’s not right.

From exchanging voicemails over the years, Antonia flagged that there were certain points I had skimmed past that she knew were a bigger deal to me.

I’ll be honest with you. Writing business prompts or sharing solopreneur knowledge comes easier to me. But I didn’t join Substack for an easy business project. I also wanted to grow and learn as a writer.

I know many of my readers are also ex-pats or wannabe ex-pats, and it’s been a pivotal part of my life and work, so I’m going to start a mini-series around France, starting with one of the many reasons why we left.

Not being able to keep up with the costs of our London property was one of them.