I wrote about Returning to France after 15 years for The Irish Times
I moved to France in 1995 after 5 years in Brussels. I left for Malaysia in 2007, but a certain virus and an editing job I did on a certain politically charged book made a future there untenable. So I moved back to France and found a place quite different to the one I had left. I wrote a short piece for The Irish Times about some of the changes I have noticed since I moved back, but unfortunately it is paywalled. https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2024/10/28/i-left-france-for-15-years-here-are-some-of-the-many-changes-i-noticed/