If you plan on retiring there, consider having a some place else to go, during Summer — this is actually what people do. Not because of the heat, not because of the amount of sunny days. But because the picturesque roads are jammed mostly all day long. This partly explains why so many houses have swimming pools, there 
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We spent our family holidays on the Cote d’azur back in the late 70s. I’ve heard it has changed a bit since then 
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I like the original edit, it is hard to get good colours / saturation with such harsh light.
My edit in Darktable 5.0 with filmis.fun Kodak Gold LUT:
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It’s a 2 steps process, first I have used the exposure module with a gradient mask to darken the right part of the sky:
Then I used the color balance rgb with a mask on the sky. I increased the contrast to enhance the gradient in the sky and reduced the chroma in the dark/shadow zone (master tab).
Then, in the “4 ways” tab of the same module, I added blue in the shadow and yellow in the highlights (and also used the luminance to further increase the contrast):
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oh, ok, thanks! It does look like sky substitution.
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RT 5.11: White balanced on the white house wall at lower middle; De-Hazed; Auto-matched tone curve; Contrast by Detail Levels; Deconvolution; Resize 25% with post-sharpening:
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