85% of households in Eusell own at least one car and four-fifths of journeys to work are by private vehicle. Countrywide an average of 74% of the French use their car to get to work. It's actually pretty amazing that you sell with only 9,000 people which lies on this remote plateau in rural France has its own train station. There are eight direct trains a day to Le Murg and five to breve if you include the ones where you have to make a change. You really do feel remote when you're wandering around the town a lot of the shops are boarded up.
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