Visited Nantes with an eye toward that possibility, and was put off a bit by the tourist culture around the port--after all those years in tourist traps I tend to recoil. We also look for moorings with good cat country.
Avignon is also on our list of nice places.

Trying to strike a balance between the girls' need and our needs. We had a family agreement that we would go back to a more active life when the girls had had about three years to acclimate. We never did, and it was in the end bad for both us and the girls.
And Nevers has a nice airport with glider club and an active ultralight group, and I'm not quite ready to drift off into a genteel decline with my toys.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.