Moving out of London takes courage. Natasha and Tom Marshall had to steel themselves to say goodbye to their comfort zone once but twice. They started out by testing out the commuter waters by exchanging a Zone 1 flat for a cottage in a Kent commuter town, then took a real leap into the unknown and decamped to a village in rural Northamptonshire.
The couple’s final London home was a “lovely but absolutely tiny” rented flat in Clerkenwell. But they had long been aware that they couldn’t even afford to buy their own flat, let alone something larger and more future proofed.
