Julie and David Thompson knew that once their children were grown, they would follow their hearts to the countryside and find the perfect forever home for Christmas and beyond.
Having spent her teenage years in a beautiful but very quiet Suffolk village, the last thing Julie wanted for her own children was for them to feel cut off from their school friends and reliant on their parents to ferry them around. So when she and her husband, David, were expecting the first of their three children, they left London to raise their family not in their dream home of a country cottage, but in a contemporary and easy-to-maintain house in bustling Ipswich, where the couple first met.
