3 d. ago 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

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1 week ago London leaver: Why we swapped our Putney flat for a house in Haslemere

London leaver: Why we swapped our Putney flat for a house in Haslemere  London Evening Standard

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1 week ago London leaver: How we swapped our West Putney flat for a home twice the size in Haslemere

When they bought their starter home — a two-bedroom flat with no outdoor space in West Putney — Amy and Alexander Vickery felt like they were set for life.

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2 w. ago London leaver: 'we're so close to the sea in West Sussex our London friends visit all the time'

The couple and their five-year-old son are enjoying the community feel of their development in West Sussex, 10 minutes from the sea

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3 w. ago London leaver: “It hurts my heart to say it but I don’t miss Hampstead at all”

Until she was in her thirties Shubhi Grover had only ever lived in huge cities. First her native Mumbai in India and then her adopted home, London.

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4 w. ago Rangers collapse early against Club Brugge to leave Martin facing fans’ wrath

Russell Martin’s eighth match of a Rangers reign already riddled with doubts proved close to a living nightmare. Championship promotion races and playoffs, the ill winds of struggling in the Premier League have nothing on the fever-dream pressures of failing to turn around one of Glasgow’s giants.Martin may be a believer in his own processes but in an environment where snap decisions are often sustained, he does not have long to set them in place. The chances of Rangers playing Champions League football rather than the Europa League are an outside chance after a first-half performance of rank ineptitude, the tone and probably the two-legged tie set by a horrible opening 20 minutes in which three soft goals were conceded. So early in his stewardship, Martin is still in the experimental phase and until a revival in the second half the experiment looked likely to be abandoned some time soon. Continue reading...

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