It's a dream many city-dwellers long for: moving to a spacious house surrounded by greenery in the countryside, where they plan to raise their family.
In 1996, Heather Shepherd, now 50, and her family did just that. Moving away from the congestion and noise of their north London home, they migrated to a 17th-century farmhouse that they would renovate and make their sanctuary.
Their village near Shrewsbury in Shropshire had just 70 residents, according to Shepherd, whom they would get to know well.
[For more of this story, written by Meera Senthilingam, go to http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/14/...ental-health-eprise/]
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