We have seen them with their yellow vests on the dashboard of their car, we hear them around the Christmas turkey, when families from all over tell their daily lives, far from hospitals, subways or high schools. We have to listen to these rural people tell how their neighbour, a farmer, organised himself to take the children from isolated farms to the secondary school in the sub-prefecture, or how the last doctor who retired took over a little work for lack of a replacement. And then there's the leisure centre that can no longer find animators, the installation of fibre postponed indefinitely...
The desertification of territories is not new, and the inhabitants of our towns have learned to make do with fewer public services, more isolation and now a shortage of candidates to replace the coach operator or the canteen owner... In the countryside, solidarity, the D system and mutual aid are part of everyday life. The mayor and his deputies are always available...
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