Seriously, I’m getting pretty fed up with London.

It’s a great city, but not when you’re a commuter.

(Show me any commuter who enjoys travelling on the capital’s under-invested public transport system…)

This growing unrest is fuelled by the growing number of friends who have moved away from London in the last few years. This includes people both on and off the property ladder, so it’s not exclusively about not being able to afford to buy a house here.

It’s about escaping the ridiculous speed that everyone and everything seems to need to travel in and around London.

It’s about wanting to breathe fresh air and live in real countryside.

Of course, it also makes financial sense – buying a much larger property and having money to spare is a rarity in London but elsewhere it’s still almost a normality.

It’s also about being fed up of doing a 9-5 job for someone else (even in a charity environment).

Please, does anyone want to rescue me? Show me ways that I can increase my non-employed income, break free, and leave grey-box-world for the sound of birds and the babbling streams of… well, anywhere else really.

I’ve lived in London for 14 yeaars now, and I’m pretty fed up with it now.

Who’s gonna save me?