We were not going to settle down in Nîmes, because it was precisely to avoid that that we had decided to RENT and not to BUY. We could say, however, after a few months, that overall we liked Nîmes quite a lot. The proximity to all kinds of things (shops, restaurants, terraces, culture, liveliness) was more important than specifically the city of Nîmes, even though it scores highly in terms of liveability. A small town with the popularity of much larger cities. It almost looked like Amsterdam….
In the end, it was not the city noise that made us decide to move on again, but…. THE NEIGHBOURS (l’histoire se répète, even in Ray we had to deal with an annoying neighbour once!). Though the flat had been newly built, it did not mean that it was orderly sound-insulated, on the contrary: every footstep was audible. Even at night! And because we soon had enough of that, we moved to a detached rental house in the countryside in November: in BARJAC.