4 h. ago London leaver: 'I swapped Oval for Broadstairs and only regret not moving sooner'

Fed up with how long it was taking to sell her London flat, Leah Brown snapped up a rental on the coast

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52 h. ago London leaver: 'we shaved more than £100k off our mortgage moving from Wimbledon to Cambridgeshire'

The couple thought they wouldn’t be able to move to the country until they retired

Economics

3 d. ago Trump threatens 100% China tariffs as Beijing restricts rare

President accuses China of ‘very hostile’ moves and says additional tariffs could come on 1 November ‘or sooner’Donald Trump has threatened to impose additional US tariffs of 100% on China from next month, accusing Beijing of “very hostile” moves to restrict exports of rare earths needed for American industry.Wall Street fell sharply after the US president reignited public tensions with the Chinese government, and raised the prospect of another acrimonious trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago London leaver: 'Our move to the Cotswolds has saved us £17k a year in rent'

Sam Whigham and Mike Perry began to feel that London wasn’t working for them anymore when they considered how mad it was that, in order to take their dog out for a good long walk, they first had to drive him out of Zone 1, often spending more time on the road than they actually out walking.

Economics

2 w. ago London leaver: 'life here is chalk and cheese with London — it has been an awakening'

London leaver: 'life here is chalk and cheese with London — it has been an awakening'  London Evening Standard

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2 w. ago London leaver: 'our life in Devon is chalk and cheese with London — it has been an awakening'

During the height of the pandemic Ben Stafford-Davies was out on his daily walk when he spotted the woman who would become his wife practicing yoga in the park.

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3 w. ago London leaver: 'with all the traffic in London it's often faster to travel from Slough'

Their fragile finances pushed over the edge by service charges near where they were living Ali and Yasmin reluctantly moved to Slough to invest in their future

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last month London leaver: Our snap decision to sell up in Wimbledon shaved £100k off our mortgage

A colleague’s advice saw this former Londoner leap at the chance of a countryside move — decades earlier than planned

Economics