Driving through the back roads of Northern Spain and into the central zone of rural France, you can see traces of times past and evidence of hard-earned earlier prosperity.  A central square that once bustled with farmers with their livestock on market days now cannot support a rough and ready convenience store.  The automation of farming was a wondrous thing, only it made people redundant - literally - in the country towns, ending an era of hardship but how does this compare to moving to the expensive cities and scraping by on menial jobs? 

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