Monday 28 November 2016

Is not-London the new London? An article in CityMetric



The novelist AL Kennedy recently said that‘being out of London is the new being in London.’ Ironically we were both moving to the same place for largely the same reasons, though my exit was less newsworthy and (possibly, who knows?) more agonised.

And it seems that those we'd categorise as thinking people have to consider their reasons for leaving London. We may decry gentrification, pollution, the struggle of managing children, and the lack of proximity of everything. And, after we have emotionally and physically extracted ourselves from this ‘problem,’ we await a better life on the outside, in whatever ‘like London but without the bad bits’ location you have chosen.

Continue reading @ CityMetric.

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