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Priced out by the ‘escalating insanity’ of life in California, she moved to rural France for a tranquil new life

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Priced out by the ‘escalating insanity’ of life in California, she moved to rural France for a tranquil new life By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — During a storm in a quiet village in southern France, artist MB Boissonnault couldn’t stop herself crying as…

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Priced out by the ‘escalating insanity’ of life in California, she moved to rural France for a tranquil new life By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — During a storm in a quiet village in southern France, artist MB Boissonnault couldn’t stop herself crying as…

Why it matters

As the rain fell, she says she saw a ball of light moving toward her.

Common ground

“It was not a hallucination, or drugs, or French wine,” she recalls.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Their rent-controlled home in Venice, which they’d occupied for 20 years, was under major threat.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming the threat to MB Boissonnault's rent-controlled home in Venice Beach.
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Claim 2: “Now living what she describes as a bucolic idyll, growing plants and finally letting her art run free, looking back at her former life feels like a nightmare.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming MB Boissonnault currently lives in Saissac or describes her life there as a bucolic idyll.
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Claim 3: “Priced out by the ‘escalating insanity’ of life in California, she moved to rural France for a tranquil new life”
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No relevant evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results that confirm MB Boissonnault's relocation to rural France or her reasons for leaving California.
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Claim 4: “Since 1999, she had also been forced to give up every painting studio she had rented in Los Angeles, losing spaces to ‘investor-rich restaurateurs or next door businesses who wanted to enlarge their space.’”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming MB Boissonnault losing painting studios in Los Angeles to investor-rich businesses since 1999.
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Claim 5: “Even with a so-called ‘middle-income,’ she and her husband were barely making it, and they believed they would never be able to own a house — instead remaining trapped in an endless cycle of rentals, waiting to be priced out again and again.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming financial struggles of MB Boissonnault and her husband in Los Angeles.
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Claim 6: “A full renovation followed, costing under 100,000 euros, or $115,000 — a fraction of the price in Los Angeles.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming the renovation cost of MB Boissonnault's Saissac home was under 100,000 euros.
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Claim 7: “The idea of leaving the United States had already begun to take shape in 2022, when Boissonnault was invited to stay at the home of a fellow artist in Saissac.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming MB Boissonnault was invited to stay in Saissac, France, in 2022.
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Claim 8: “A year later, priced out of her rented home and studios and exhausted by what she describes as the ‘gentrification’ of her longtime neighborhood, she and her husband, broadcast engineer Evan Calford, relocated to the tiny rural village of Saissac, near the Pyrenees.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming MB Boissonnault's relocation to Saissac in 2023.
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Claim 9: “During a storm in a quiet village in southern France, artist MB Boissonnault couldn’t stop herself crying as years of stress from living in Los Angeles finally began to surface. As the rain fell, she says she saw a ball of light moving toward her.”
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No relevant evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results that confirm MB Boissonnault's vision of a ball of light during a storm in southern France.
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Claim 10: “The couple spend their free time gardening, cooking, growing plants for medicines and learning French from older residents with strong local accents.”
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Claim 11: “The building, which dates from the 1600s and was originally three narrow homes combined over time, offered around 2,000 square feet — more space than they had ever imagined.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming the building MB Boissonnault purchased in Saissac dates from the 1600s and has 2,000 square feet.
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