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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

London Leaver: 'We felt like we were slaves to our mortgage until we moved to Salisbury'

As interest rates began their slow, steady rise Caroline Hart and her husband Fintan O’Keeffe found their monthly mortgage payments increasing from expensive-but-doable to a complete financial drain.

To take the pressure off they embarked on an exit strategy which has seen them relocate from West London to an under-the-radar cathedral city which they chose partly for its affordability and partly for its vibe.

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