Stories about finding where you fit
Essays, guides and honest thinking about commute, schools, budget and lifestyle when choosing where to live.
Photo: Raluca Laslo · Google (Knole Park)
Why Locaura exists
Why we built a better way to choose where to live
Photo: Artur Campos · Google (Lewes)
Lifestyle26 July 2026What makes a market town feel like a market town — and which ones are still a workable commute
What makes a market town feel like a market town — and which ones are still a workable commute "Market town" has been stretched so thin it barely…
Photo: WATERMEAD WILDLIFE · Google (WATERMEAD WILDLIFE)
Editorial25 July 2026How you know it's time to leave London
There's no single moment. It's never one dramatic Tuesday. It's usually four or five small things, each easy to explain away on its own, that quietly…
Photo: Csaba Biro · Google (Kent Downs National Landscape)
Lifestyle25 July 2026Living in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and still commutable to London
Protected countryside and a workable London commute aren't mutually exclusive — for a real subset of places, they sit side by side.
Photo: Sergiusz Pawłowski · Google (Horsham)
Budget17 July 2026What you can get for £750k within an hour of London
Real commute times, grammar school access, and property market data for eleven places within an hour of London at £750k — including a genuine surprise about how grammar access and property availability move in opposite directions.