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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Ruth Bloomfield

Leaving London: Meet the Londoner who left Walthamstow to rent in rural Yorkshire, Oxfordshire and Glasgow

Alex Aldhous

(Picture: Handout)

On the eve of the pandemic Alex’s Aldhous was living in Walthamstow, working as senior operations manager for an international company, and living a busy London life. She was only able to see her boyfriend, who is in the army, at weekends and conducting a long distance relationship can be tough.

Within days of the announcement that the UK was to enter a period of national lockdown Alex’s life changed dramatically.

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