71 m. 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

Politics

49 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

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

Politics

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.

Politics

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

Politics

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