This photo was taken some time ago near Paris. It is about 15 minutes by car from where I spent most of my teenage years. I would bike there on rare occasions with friends for whatever reason we thought would justify the expedition.
This part of Montesson is an intriguing area where track housing thins as it meets the fields. This is where suburbia meets the countryside. Real estate and land is fairly affordable.
This area as somewhere you go to because you have to. You either need to shop there or you are somehow involved in the farming industry, otherwise it is a place you go through without stopping.
Another notable thing about this coexistence is that the produce stocked in this supermarket never came from the surroundings. Centralized buying didn’t really take into consideration what was was just around the corner. This might have changed now but I remember hand painted signs announcing local farmers road-side shacks that would say things like “buy your fruits and vegetables here instead” (“achetez vos fruits et légumes ici plutôt qu’ailleurs” something like that).
It is a peculiar place.