Property News · April 1, 2017

Let’s move to Framplington, Suffolk: too good to be true


A pretty town offering right-minded left-minded folk refuge from a world ruled by the orange-skinned? You couldn’t make it up…What’s going for it? When you find milled flaxseeds and chia seeds next to each other on the shelf of the local Spar, I think we can safely say we have found our nirvana, don’t you think? This is a tough time for lefties. The once impossible relentlessly becomes the norm. So where can right-minded left-minded folk go for a bit of R&R, where nobody will out you to breitbart.com when you order hand-picked single-estate Fairtrade olives at the pub, and where political correctness is just, well, correct? Framplington, that’s where. All eyes lately have been on the People’s Republics of Brighton, Bristol or Hackney as enclaves for those a bit circumspect about the free market. Under the radar, though, this pretty town has been quietly attracting escapees from Britain’s sprawling conurbations. Today the place has the knowingly shaggy demeanour of a trustafarian, the Farrow & Ball of its Georgian town houses tattooed with arch, Banksy-lite graffiti, its high street weeded of all known chain stores. It all began, rumour has it, when the local manor house and estate town was bought, in the spirit of 19th-century reformers such as Octavia Hill, by an anonymous left-leaning sleb (there are whispers of JK Rowling, sniffs of George Clooney) to create a kind of Babington House of the People. Who knows? One thing’s certain, though: the revolution starts here. In the tea room. Over a slab of gluten-free carrot cake and a soy latte.The case against Come on, you’d miss Nigel Farage, wouldn’t you? Piers Morgan, surely? What if you crave a dirty burger? Enforced allotment tending can be back-breaking. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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