Everyone who lives in the city enjoys the occasional idle fantasy about moving to the countryside.
Your one-bed flat in London would get you a three-bed house anywhere else. You’d have a lovely big kitchen with an Aga, and cook fresh local produce – maybe from your own garden!
You’d buy wellies and a Labrador and take long walks across fields. You’d know the names of all your neighbours. It would be lovely!
The reality, as anyone who’s ever done the move will know, is much more jarring than that. Here are the things you’ll experience if you ever swap the big city… Read the full story