When Ria Pandey bought her first ever home she should have been champing at the bit to get in and start enjoying it.
In reality she was so overwhelmed by the prospect of moving 130 miles west of London to a tiny speck of a village in the country that it took her two months to pluck up the courage to pack her bags, say goodbye to her rented one-bedroom flat in Surbiton, and move into her three-bedroom stone cottage in Hardington Mandeville, Somerset.
