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We've been thinking about leaving London, or more specifically moving to a rural area, for a few years now. One of the main reasons why we are still here is because we are so uncertain about how much we'd enjoy living in a homogeneous white community.

You are not the only one.

We've been thinking about leaving London, or more specifically moving to a rural area

I live in a small rural(ish) village full of Tory old white people in red trousers and they're so resistant to change it makes my blood boil. (The local counciler wrote a very xenophobic article in the local newsletter about foreign drivers clogging up the village. I tried to get her in trouble, but she was excused by another old white fox hunting tory and there was no appeal process outside of judicial review).

On the other hand, I don't really engage with them and I can be in the woods or the fields straight out the door in minutes which is wonderful beyond compare.

One of the main reasons why we are still here is because we are so uncertain about how much we'd enjoy living in a homogeneous white community.

Also a reason why we chosen Catford.

Having done it I can confirm that it's mostly (but not entirely) white, but certainly not homogeneous. I think if I didn't still work in London it would be easy to lose the more metropolitan feelings I got living in London.

Have you considered a smaller city? Plenty of them about. Some of them offer both cosmopolitanism and quick access to the countryside.

I moved from the East Midlands to Brighton and felt like this lol

After visiting NI for the first time in far too long, I fell in love with the beaches along the Ards Penninsula (not the lough side, the Irish Sea side). I could get a house there with basically a private beach, but then I'd have to live with not only racists, but worse, loyalists.