I love city life, love the bustle, the hustle, the Tube, love nothing more than going to the buzziest restaurant, the most talked-about exhibition. I have lived in London all of my adult life and have never run out of places to see, things to do. In London, I’m never lonely, I’m never bored and it always feels like excitement, opportunity and fun are forever sparkling on the near-horizon.
Which is why I always feel complete bewilderment when at least once a month since the onset of the pandemic, friends tell me they’re giving up, selling up and moving out of town. I have never understood it. How do you make money in the countryside? Won’t you just spend your life on a freezing train platform somewhere trying desperately to come back?
