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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

London leaver: 'I swapped a 6-figure salary and Holborn flat for a £550k house in Suffolk and teaching career'

By most people’s standards Charles Allen’s London life was a huge success. He had a glamorous job with a “generous six figure salary”, he owned a cool apartment in Holborn, he had travelled widely, and his sons were raised and building their own lives.

But something wasn’t quite right. While Allen enjoyed all the trappings of success, money could not buy what he really wanted: purpose.

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