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- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
20 years later, when I left, the population was about 500 and climbing, and had lost its former ethnic purity (Gaulish, of the Segusiave tribe). Mainly because it's half an hour's drive from an old industrial city experiencing urban flight.
It was a fine place to bring up young children. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
Urban flight is going to reverse. Soon and hard.
And I'm not sure about the reversal of urban flight. The city they left has lots of cheap housing available; and there are no jobs there. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
Ethno-nationalist romanticism likes to project local traditions and ancestry local ancestry several centuries back into the past. Truth is, rural collective memory is shorter than often assumed, and both ideas and people moved around a lot. I think that of the melting pot of the Roman Empire, the Burgundian migration, the Frank conquests, the Huguenot wars, at least some must have left their trace in the local gene pool. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
As for people moving around a lot. Not. Genealogical research by my ex-wife demonstrated that your spouse came from an area within walking distance, for your basic peasants, until the early 20th century. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
Where did you search for it? Speaking of which, when was the first mention of your village in historical records? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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