Why ESSEX is the new Cotswolds: Noisy roads, swarms of tourists and the pretentious glossy posse have ruined it - much better to move like me to the real rural heaven, says SYBILLA HART
Admittedly, my husband Charlie and I didn't exactly want to leave 13 years ago. We did try to buy a house in the Cotswolds that suited us and our three children but it was hopeless.