How Post-COVID London Forced Me to Rethink Home, Work, and Life — and Move to Italy

The London Years: A Two-Bed Flat and Endless Council Tax From March 2017 until October 2023, I lived in a modest two-bedroom flat with a terrace on Rackton Road, tucked between West Kensington, West Brompton, and Fulham Broadway.  It wasn’t palatial, but it did the job.  At £1,600 a month in rent, plus another £500 […]

From a Crowded London Flat to a Spacious Italian Villa: My Journey to Better Living

When people ask me why I left London, I usually say: “Because I was paying over two grand a month to share a tiny terrace with pigeons.” That normally gets a laugh, but it’s also not far from the truth. Let me take you back to Rackton Road in Fulham, the place that shaped my […]