Article: LE GRAND HOUSE SWOP (or what your home would buy you across the Channel ).

MASSIVE increases in house prices in recent years have made Britain one of the most expensive places to buy a home in the world. So dramatic is the contrast between costs in this country and the rest of Europe that this week a Church of England clergyman announced he was retiring to France because he cannot afford a house over here. Mark Vidal-Hall has to move out of his nondescript, fourbedroom, Seventies vicarage in Staffordshire - and he can't raise the [pound]150,000 it is worth. So, for less than half that price, he has bought something far better: a three-storey 19th-century farmhouse with outbuildings and two acres in Brittany which was on the market for ...

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