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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Prudence Ivey

Comment: ‘There’s more to life than a Walthamstow postcode’

The biological clock is old hat. There’s a far more powerful force at play these days, although it exerts itself almost exclusively on coupled-up 30-something (dare I say it mostly heterosexual) Londoners.

What is this mysterious magnetic pull that seems to act on people against their will? The drive to buy a place in Walthamstow.

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