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Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

Leaving London: ‘I was scared to leave my Mile End ‘forever home’ for Oxford but I don’t miss it at all’

The family were shocked by the price of homes in north Oxford, the most expensive part of the city.

(Picture: Getty Images)

If you had told Allana Clear that she would voluntarily leave London, sell her ‘forever home’ in east London and decamp to a university city with a reputation for sleepiness, she would have laughed in your face.

But the pandemic presented an opportunity to make a radical life change, and in 2020, Allana and her husband Mike said goodbye to Mile End and hello to Jericho in north Oxford, where they now live with their two sons Sam, eight, and Charlie, ten.

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