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Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

London leavers: 'we swapped Oval and Islington for a rented six-bed farmhouse near Peterborough'

When she lived in London the commute to work meant hopping on the Tube. When Katherine Westmacott moved to the country the difference was immediately clear.

“On the very first day, on the way to the station, I had to jump out of the car in my high heels to move a load of cows which were all over the road,” she said.

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