Inspired by years of visiting friends on the South Coast, and many conversations about moving there, this Airbnb manager and his partner, a chief research officer, finally took the plunge. They sold their south-west London home and bought a 1930s property near the seaside in Hove.
‘It had been a dream of ours to leave the busy city and move to the coast for quite some time,’ he says. ‘I grew up in Malta, where you are never far from the sea, and I missed that.’
