The rush to the West – Biarritz, so far from Paris, and yet …

In recent months, many French people have decided to change their life. Confinement generating questions, revolution of teleworking, need for air… They left the metropolises to settle on the coast. We went to meet them. From Touquet to Biarritz, investigation into the rush to the West.

VSIt was not the Covid that made him move to Anglet, but it was he who made him stay. Rémi is an architect. This 43-year-old former Parisian “temporarily” moved to Biarritz in 2018, got involved in an association of local surfers… then gave up on leaving. He didn’t want to be in a big city. “I love Paris, but it’s a world that gives me the impression of consuming more than living,” he explains, seated at a café in the square …