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I'd been in London for 18 years and quite frankly, I'd kind of felt like I'd done it and got everything I needed

from the city and had, I guess, entered what felt like a toxic work culture at the time

that I wanted to escape from.

This is Alex Holder.

In 2019, she was working as a freelance journalist and a corporate copywriter and was starting to wonder,

is this the life I want? London felt full of edges at the time. I remember taking my three-year-old

son to a local pup, a really nice pup in a residential area, and I took into the toilets

and he asked me, why are the toilets all greasy, mum?

I obviously didn't explain to him. It was to stop people racking up lines of cocaine on the lids.

It was around this time that she went on a trip to Lisbon and realized another life was possible.

It's so beautiful. You walk down the streets. There are cobbled pavements. The buildings are pastel.

The light is just kind of luminescent. And then there was a culture that felt very open to family life.

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