She lived in a shared house, walked to the office every day and rarely if ever indulged in a Pret a Manger latte or a deli sandwich, but Laura Manderson couldn’t afford to live anywhere near her job.
Manderson, 35, originally from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, was “forced out” of London by the cost of living and working in the capital. She works for a theatrical licensing company, based near Regent Street in central London, but recently swapped her house-share in Oval, in the south of the city, for Reading.
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