Why Pau?

An expat writer’s response to living abroad.

In 2022 my husband (the risk-taking pragmatist) and I (the risk-averse wordsmith) retired, sold our Boston home, shipped all the artifacts accumulated during four conjoined decades, and launched fully into French life.  Our two-bed apartment in the small city of Pau suddenly shifted from part-time “pied-à-terre” to permanent home. Why?