Why you should think twice about moving out of London

In Lockdown we’ve read townies want to be country bumpkins and you could be just as productive in West Dorset as you could in West London. For most this is a binary choice so what’s it going to be?

Bucolic imagery is no substitute for real life and despite repeated promises from Whitehall, BTopenworld and a mobile industry criminally unable to deal with roaming, the reality for a significant minority, if not majority, of rural dwellers is that countryside communications are woeful. Last time I checked you got a mobile signal and fibre in W6.

For several decades the demographic shift has been very much to live in conurbations. Particularly relevant has been the seismic shift in thinking of your home as a piggybank. London Property has been a safe repository for many a recession and even black swan events. The 08/09 financial crisis had pundits rushing to tell everyone that London property would plummet, yet within months it had rebounded and bettered previous highs.