St. Rémy is lovely...

...if you're middle-aged to old, rich, living with a significant other, and have a car, or if your visiting for a day or week-end. However, for someone like me, it is expensive and lonely. I decided a bit ago that I wanted to move at some point to Avignon. I thought I would go after the Christmas holiday. Susie doesn't have as much time as me (she's leaving at the beginning of February) and she's also been fed up with the fact that there's no young people in St Remy and with our other roommate not being very welcoming or considerate so she decided to move right away, she doesn't have time to wait. She's the only reason I was staying in St Remy really, so I moved up my apartment search. I found a couple of cute studios in my price range and I'm meeting Saturday with a 20-year-old non-smoker looking for a roommate. She said her apartment has a kitchen "for people who like to cook" and she seemed nice over the phone (we had a little trouble understanding each other.) Living with her, I could speak more French and hopefully meet other young French people. While looking for apartment notices, I saw a notice for a theater looking for amateur actors and circus performers to be in their shows. Sounds like my kind of theater so I'm going to see if they want a designer/technician, I can't get paid (and not just because its theater) but I can meet people and have more to do with my time. My next door neighbor, Lynn, (24, English, awesome) is a student at the university in Avignon and she has some long breaks in between her classes so I can always grab a coffee with her or have her over on the days I don't work, so I can still see her. Finally, while for Susie being in Avignon means a lot of commuting, I already commute 2 out of my 3 work days, and those commutes won't get any longer, so I'm only adding one day of commuting. St. Remy is great in its way but there's more for me in Avignon.