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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

London leaver: 'We'd never heard of St Neots but we jumped straight in to buy a home there'

By moving 60 miles north Zoshia Lowndes and Will Plant have been able to swap a pokey and dark one-bedroom rented flat for a three-bedroom house of their own.

And what is more the couple, both 28, have found that the compensations of homeownership in a small market town with great train links to the capital more than outweigh the wrench of leaving.

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