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Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

Leaving London: I cried on the M4, but am glad I swapped fancy coffee in Nunhead for a family home in Bristol

The couple sold their 3-bed Nunhead flat for £430,000 and bought their 4-bed Bristol home for £525,000

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On the drive from Nunhead, south east London, to Brislington, south east Bristol, Aletheia allowed herself a few tears.

She and her husband Owen, both 38, had met in the capital, and had their son Caspar, now 22 months, while living there. The sense of the ending of a very happy era was strong. “It was a very formative time for us both,” she says.

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