ABSTRACT

Coworking spaces have blossomed in France's rural regions, where they are seen as a tool to attract or maintain a population that would otherwise live elsewhere. However, the rural French territory does not offer equal access to high-speed internet. Remoteness is thus here considered as relative as the distance can be both physical and virtual. The chapter draws the portraits of six coworkers that illustrate three ways of inhabiting the territory and living remotely, making professional choices, and experiencing mobility in everyday life and over the course of a lifetime. The proposed analysis draws on the literature on lifestyle migrants as well as on mobile lifestyles and discusses what the chosen remote immobile lifestyle tells about the evolution of those lifestyles.