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Life Out on the Frontier: Should you leave London?

Resources Life Out on the Frontier: Should you leave London?

24 Jul 2026

"In the past two years, my business partners and I have managed to open two restaurants for the same amount I reckon it costs a Super 8 group opening to build half of their pastry section. No corporate finance, no leveraging ourselves out of the right to sleep at night, just two restaurants on the South Coast built for the price of somebody else's chocolate room."

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