{"id":405254,"date":"2025-09-07T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405254\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:50:19","slug":"london-leaver-how-we-swapped-our-west-putney-flat-for-a-home-twice-the-size-in-haslemere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405254\/","title":{"rendered":"London leaver: How we swapped our West Putney flat for a home twice the size in Haslemere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c We loved Putney, but we couldn\u2019t have afforded the same-sized house there. And after having lived in a terrace with neighbours either side and below, our priority was a detached property. There are not many of these available in and around Putney, and they come at a premium,\u201d says Amy, who is expecting her second child, another daughter, any day now. \u201cAside from this, I grew up in the countryside, and I felt quite strongly that if we were moving out of Putney I didn\u2019t want to move to another suburb.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c We loved Putney, but we couldn\u2019t have afforded the same-sized house there. And after having lived in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,12328,393,4884,139682,257,2536,16,15,139683],"class_list":{"0":"post-405254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-commuter-homes","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-haslemere","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-surrey","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-putney"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115163104856581638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}