13 h. 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.

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7 d. 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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7 d. 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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2 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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3 w. 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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4 w. 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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4 w. 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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