Chanceaux-sur-Choisille, 2,500 souls.
A village name that smacks of rural France, 3 km north of Tours, in Indre-et-Loire.
Chanceaux-sur-Choisille, last stop of the Touraine urban bus.
Beyond that, you have to be able to count on your car.
Like Roxane, 43, and her Volkswagen Beetle, a 2013 petrol model, 110,000 km on the clock.
“It is vital for me to go to work,” she insists.
By public transport, I would have to get up at 6 a.m.
» The forty-year-old is an agency advisor at Harmonie Mutuelle.
Every day of the week, she drives from Chanceaux-sur-Choisille to Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, 13 km.
“26 km round trip five days a week,” she explains.
100 euros of gasoline per month.
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