In his "tête-à-tête" on Monday "7-9", Matthieu Belliard receives Denis Pilato, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Néoruro".
This new quarterly, launched on April 15, is aimed at these "neo-rural people", city dwellers who decide to change their life and settle in small towns, or even completely in the open countryside.
INTERVIEW
This is not only a consequence of the Covid-19 health crisis, but also a societal trend that has been developing for several years: the urban exodus.
City dwellers are also more likely to move to small towns and rural villages.
It is to support their change of life that the editor-in-chief Denis Pilato launched the magazine
Néoruro
on April 15
.
He presents this new title, Monday at the microphone of Matthieu Belliard in his "tête-à-tête" of
7-9
.
"A new form of society is being invented"
The urban exodus is indeed a reality: 100,000 families per year leave the cities for the countryside and 8 out of 10 Parisian executives want to leave the capital.
And teleworking has helped many of them get over it.
"We are supporting this movement, with one in two urban people who are starting to ask themselves the question of leaving the city, which is starting to be a heavy figure," adds the editor-in-chief.
"There is material to give advice, but also to take a look at this new form of society which is in the process of being invented".
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The editor-in-chief himself left his Parisian apartment in the Halles district for a small country town. Without revealing the content of his magazine, Denis Pilato thus delivers some practical advice. "You have to test the countryside where you want to go", explains the man who spent 3 months in Tours and 3 months in Dijon before making up his mind. “Likewise, if you want to start a new agricultural activity, go and volunteer in a small structure to try and see how it works,” he adds. "And don't buy property from big cities."
If he anticipates a return to the city of some urbanites after the health crisis, Denis Pilato believes that climate change will end up confirming the trend of urban exodus as a major societal movement. The first issue of the quarterly magazine
Néoruro
came out on newsstands on April 15, at a price of € 5.90.