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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

London Leaver: 'My mental health has improved since moving to Harrogate'

Vicky and her husband Matt in Harrogate, with Pickle - (Handout)

If you’d have asked her a few years back if she’d ever leave her home town of London to move up North, giving up her friends and her job and saying goodbye to the buzz of big city life, Vicky Chandler would probably have laughed in your face.

But the pandemic turned her into an accidental London leaver, complete with a husband, a dog, and a house, and although the transition to life in North Yorkshire hasn’t been easy, today Vicky wouldn’t go back if you paid her.

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