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Long life

If you want real stress, move to the country

And if you want to see your planning battles fought properly, make it the Italian countryside

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

It’s much more stressful to live in the country than in a town. There are always threats of one kind or another — wind farms, housing developments, road ‘improvements’, and so on. And then there are often arguments with neighbours about this and that. If it’s not leylandii, which are not one of our problems in south Northamptonshire, there’s always something.

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