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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

London leaver: 'I bought a five-bed house by the sea in Scotland for the cost of a London flat deposit'

From an emotional perspective the moment Kestral Gaian decided they were going to give up on life in London and relocate to the coastal town of Ayr happened whilst standing on the town’s pier, looking out to sea, when a seal popped its head out of the waters to look at them.

From a practical point of view the move was driven by the gigantic disparity in house prices between the capital and Scotland.

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