— Intentional Community in Southern France

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• Are you wanting to live a more peaceful and intentional life surrounded by nature, but nervous about the isolation or lack of like-minded community and activities you might experience in smaller villages or countryside locations?
• Are you ready to move out of the big cities, but worried you don’t fit in with the demographics of more traditional rural or suburban environments — less diverse, less international, and often built around family life you don’t necessarily share?
• Are you at a stage in life where people around you are settling down with partners and families, while your path looks different, and you’d like to build your own chosen family of friends and community to settle down with instead?
• Are you an independent person curious about colivings, coworking, and community living, but wanting to preserve your own home, freedom, and autonomy rather than being bound by shared housing rules and collective logistics?

Maybe you’ve already researched different communities, but found that most are designed for families, students, retirees, or eco-village setups and none fully reflect how you want to live.

Maybe you’re a remote worker, entrepreneur, or artist, free to choose where you live, but still wanting to be surrounded by people who share your lifestyle, values, and priorities.

If any of this resonates, and you’re living in or open to relocating to Southern France, you might be a good fit for the early stages of building the Palo Santo Village community.

Vision

Palo Santo Village is for people who see family and community as something consciously created, not limited to romantic or biological bonds.

It’s for people who have thought carefully about how they want to live their life and relationships, and who are missing an intentional way of building belonging: a sense of connection, consistency, and shared growth that extends beyond individual households.

This is not a collective experiment or escapist ideal. It’s about building a tangible, sustainable way of life with others who share the same clarity and intention.

What Palo Santo Village Is

When people talk about their future living dreams, the idea of “buying houses in the same village and becoming neighbors” often comes up, but rarely becomes reality. Life takes other turns, partners and family plans take priority, or it’s simply too complex to coordinate.

Palo Santo Village is about making that idea real — for a yet-to-be-established group of people who want to live intentionally as independent neighbors connected by shared vision and purpose.