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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

'My £1,600 a month countryside rental was a disaster... six months in I’m racing back to London’

Almost 70,000 households moved out of London last year and Harriet Minter was one of them.

Six months later Harriet is on her way back home, with a cautionary tale about the realities of moving to a charming historic cottage in a delightful market town — particularly if you are doing so with only an over-anxious rescue dog for company.

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