For Sandy Renson-Smith, leaving the picturesque Yorkshire cottage she had lived in for 42 years to move 150 miles to be with her adult children in Crewe was a much easier decision than it might sound. “When I discovered my daughter Jen was pregnant with her first child, I realised I needed to be nearer to them,” she said.
“We’ve always been very, very close as a family because of me bringing them up on my own,” added Renson-Smith, whose husband died in a car accident when her daughter was four. “And it’s so lovely being with them. Obviously I miss my cottage but coming here, and being next to the family, to me is worth more than its weight in gold.”
