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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Ruth Bloomfield

Country villages with new homes: from coastal gems to family-friendly commuter zones

House moves don’t get much more lifestyle-changing than swapping London, one of the world’s great capitals, for a quaint country village where the air is fresh and the locals are friendly, but you can forget about the diversity and culture you find in the city.

Moving to a village will mean many changes. Goodbye Notting Hill Carnival, hello village fete. Your Uber and Deliveroo apps will be surplus to requirements and you’ll have to replace them with Memory-Map — for planning your next long country walk — and The Forager’s Apprentice eBook, so that you don’t accidentally eat a poisonous mushroom.

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