WaPo sez: Just Move to Your French Vineyard!
https://archive.ph/Kyyed#selection-755.0-829.150
Who among us hasn’t wondered about skipping out on America after the election of one disagreeable president or another? The difference between us (well, most of us — one won’t assume) and former congressman Jim McDermott is that he has actually nursed three nanny goats in the tiny French village of Civrac-en-Médoc.
“From that moment, I belonged,” McDermott, a Democrat who served 14 terms in Congress, told former Post correspondent Elizabeth Becker.
The life Becker described is idyllic: gentle work in a little vineyard. Snails on the garden fence. Universal health care.
But McDermott also told her about his loneliness, far as he is from his longtime home in Washington state. And the term he uses for his petit chalet is chilling: “safe house.”
Of course, McDermott means safe from Donald Trump and from Trumpism; France became his primary residence during the former president’s administration.
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https://archive.ph/Kyyed#selection-755.0-829.150
Who among us hasn’t wondered about skipping out on America after the election of one disagreeable president or another? The difference between us (well, most of us — one won’t assume) and former congressman Jim McDermott is that he has actually nursed three nanny goats in the tiny French village of Civrac-en-Médoc.
“From that moment, I belonged,” McDermott, a Democrat who served 14 terms in Congress, told former Post correspondent Elizabeth Becker.
The life Becker described is idyllic: gentle work in a little vineyard. Snails on the garden fence. Universal health care.
But McDermott also told her about his loneliness, far as he is from his longtime home in Washington state. And the term he uses for his petit chalet is chilling: “safe house.”
Of course, McDermott means safe from Donald Trump and from Trumpism; France became his primary residence during the former president’s administration.
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