de rigeur, densely populated areas are a red flag and cities without arts, culture or dining out hold less appeal.There’s been a rise in ‘cottage core’, a trend across social media fetishing the bucolic life, photos of ivy-strewn cottages and trundles in orchards neatly bypassing the more visceral aspects of country living.
It’s telling that that barometer of how British men dress – David Beckham, face of the millennial metrosexual man – has adopted a ‘down on the farm’ wardrobe in his online updates from his country home, admittedly a grand Oxfordshire compound.All of which raises the debate of townies vs country bumpkins, and how to assimilate yourself as you crash land into a chocolate box village clutching your almond milk frappuccino.
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