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Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

Leaving London: why swapping Dulwich for the seaside was not the ‘giant leap’ this family had feared

Scrolling through her social media one day, Sofia Scratton paused to admire some pictures posted by a friend who had recently moved to Folkestone. “I thought: “Where is this place? It looks lovely”, I need to find out more,” she said.

Sofia, 40, and her husband, Reuben, 50, were living in Dulwich at the time with their two young sons, Oscar, now nine, and Oliver, eight.

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