> they sold their home in Stockwell for £800,000; craving space and fresh air, they bought a four-bedroom house in a remote village in Dorset for £780,000.
They actually sold and pocketed £20k
> “We feel isolated. Most of our friends are still in London, and we’re tired of long car journeys if we want to venture outside the village — even getting to the supermarket is a trek,” Emma says. “We have come to realise we don’t want to live a holiday life full-time.”
Upped and moved their family without considering consequences. SMH
> The couple have put their house on the market for £880,000 and are planning to move back to the capital for the twins to start school in September — they are looking in Barnes, southwest London.
So in total made £100k.
FFS. Had to stop reading. Tone deaf article about people with more money than brains.
Shower of bastards. I got evicted from my rental right in the middle of the pandemic because my landlords (who live in the south east) decided to cash in on the flight from the cities to the countryside. In the meantime rents have gone up, house prices are crazy and local wages haven’t budged at all. To buy a house now you have to place offers well over the asking price and you need to move FAST. It used to confuse me that someone would like our village enough to move to it but not care about the damage their wealth is doing to the fabric of the local community. This article brings it into focus somewhat – they’re selfish idiots.
Imagine having that much money you can just throw it away and then writing an article about it. Rich townies are a different breed man.
Tl;dr
Living in the countryside sounds like a great idea, until you realise that everyone around you are the sorts of people whose hobbies list as : walking, hiking, jogging and more walking. Mainly because there bugger all else to do
>Daniel and Emma are not alone in having second thoughts. One Yorkshire estate agent says: “We had a chap who paid several million pounds and took 32 days from start to finish to complete the transaction. He’s stayed just six months.
These people aren’t living in the same reality as the rest of us.
Making a major financial and life decision, during a freak event, with no guarantee what the near future would look like, while others are also panic buying and panic selling?
How could that go wrong?
I do love how middle class and clueless the UK press is at times. It’s quite sweet actually.
Surely it’s easier to make new friends than to do all this buying and selling of houses?
Daniel and Emma didn’t realise that a remote Dorset village would not contain all the attractions amenities of London. Daniel and Emma are fucking idiots.
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> they sold their home in Stockwell for £800,000; craving space and fresh air, they bought a four-bedroom house in a remote village in Dorset for £780,000.
They actually sold and pocketed £20k
> “We feel isolated. Most of our friends are still in London, and we’re tired of long car journeys if we want to venture outside the village — even getting to the supermarket is a trek,” Emma says. “We have come to realise we don’t want to live a holiday life full-time.”
Upped and moved their family without considering consequences. SMH
> The couple have put their house on the market for £880,000 and are planning to move back to the capital for the twins to start school in September — they are looking in Barnes, southwest London.
So in total made £100k.
FFS. Had to stop reading. Tone deaf article about people with more money than brains.
Shower of bastards. I got evicted from my rental right in the middle of the pandemic because my landlords (who live in the south east) decided to cash in on the flight from the cities to the countryside. In the meantime rents have gone up, house prices are crazy and local wages haven’t budged at all. To buy a house now you have to place offers well over the asking price and you need to move FAST. It used to confuse me that someone would like our village enough to move to it but not care about the damage their wealth is doing to the fabric of the local community. This article brings it into focus somewhat – they’re selfish idiots.
Imagine having that much money you can just throw it away and then writing an article about it. Rich townies are a different breed man.
Tl;dr
Living in the countryside sounds like a great idea, until you realise that everyone around you are the sorts of people whose hobbies list as : walking, hiking, jogging and more walking. Mainly because there bugger all else to do
>Daniel and Emma are not alone in having second thoughts. One Yorkshire estate agent says: “We had a chap who paid several million pounds and took 32 days from start to finish to complete the transaction. He’s stayed just six months.
These people aren’t living in the same reality as the rest of us.
Making a major financial and life decision, during a freak event, with no guarantee what the near future would look like, while others are also panic buying and panic selling?
How could that go wrong?
I do love how middle class and clueless the UK press is at times. It’s quite sweet actually.
Surely it’s easier to make new friends than to do all this buying and selling of houses?
Daniel and Emma didn’t realise that a remote Dorset village would not contain all the attractions amenities of London. Daniel and Emma are fucking idiots.