Now we drift to the Cotswolds, where the stone cottages are so quaint they look like they were built by a theme-park designer with unlimited funds. Towns like Bibury and Burford are bursting with olive-green wellies, Labradoodles, and people who “commute” to London twice a week on a train that smells of cappuccino.
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The shocking bit? A million-pound house here might not even have a proper bathroom—but it will have a historic thatched roof that costs a fortune to maintain. That’s the thing about the wealthy: they’ll pay extra for a roof that leaks charm.
North of the Border: Edinburgh’s New Town
Don’t think Scotland is left out. Edinburgh’s New Town is a Georgian masterpiece where the pavement is basically a catwalk for cashmere. A three-bedroom flat here can set you back £1.2 million, but you get to live in a building where Jane Austen’s ghost would feel right at home—if she had a Bloomberg terminal and a Peloton.
A less-known gem? St. Andrews in Fife, where millionaires buy houses just to be near the golf course, then spend all weekend losing balls in the rough. It’s a beautiful kind of madness.
