The narrative about women relocating out of London tends to frame it as departure. A lifestyle correction, a cost-of-living calculation, a quieter chapter. What it actually describes, in a significant number of cases, is something structurally different: a redistribution. The women moving to Edinburgh, Bristol, the Lake District, and the

Across Europe's most visited cities, May is now outperforming August on every quality metric. The crowd hasn't thinned. The traveller has moved around it.