Cotswolds Guide: Part 2

What two months cost us, plus a few itineraries

Time to spill the beans on what we spent living in the Cotswolds for two months. I always get nervous before I share money stuff because 1. there is a lot of cultural taboo around sharing financial information that I have been absorbing most of my life and 2. I am afraid of judgement (in most things really, but money is an especially touchy one). Everyone has different ideas of what “a lot” of money is, what is “too expensive”, what is “worth it”. Laying bare the privilege I have as a white woman in a dual income household without kids can feel a bit showy regardless of that not being my intention.

If it makes me nervous, then why bother sharing? Because I am always interested in what other people are spending and what things I might aspire to do one day cost. It seems like if I want to be a consumer of that kind of information, then I should also be a contributor. I want to feed the spirit of transparency!

Part of bringing my big dreams to fruition is knowing what the financial outlay would be to make them come true. Perhaps you, too, fantasize about spending multiple months in the Cotswolds — if so, consider this a submission to your mental accounting of what you might need to make it happen. Of course things can be done more cheaply or more lavishly, but this is what it cost for us to make it happen.

*Gratitude disclaimer and offering to the universe*
I know, and at times am in disbelief of, how fortunate I am to have the means — financial, flexible remote work, Alex’s support — to be in England for two months. All privileges in the truest sense!

Let’s rip the bandaid off: