{"id":12,"date":"2025-05-27T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:56:36","slug":"real-life-real-change-my-journey-from-city-to-slow-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Real Life, Real Change, My Journey from City to Slow Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1800\" src=\"https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/E2F52A57-3E29-41EA-ABA2-424EA54BDFEF.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/E2F52A57-3E29-41EA-ABA2-424EA54BDFEF.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/E2F52A57-3E29-41EA-ABA2-424EA54BDFEF-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/E2F52A57-3E29-41EA-ABA2-424EA54BDFEF-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/E2F52A57-3E29-41EA-ABA2-424EA54BDFEF-800x1000.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:137px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hi,<\/strong><br>I always feel awkward writing about myself, and I&#8217;m not sure if you found me through my Instagram or YouTube, or one of my recipes led you here, but I&#8217;m glad that you are here.<br>I started this website in 2019, then someone had some fun with it and hacked it to pieces, it almost vanished into non-existence. But as with other things in life, sometimes it&#8217;s nice to get a fresh start. So it feels extra special in that sense, that I get to reintroduce myself several years later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I moved to London in 2011 from Hungary. It was a big leap of faith and a change, but I would not change it for anything. Growing up in a bustling multicultural city, getting to experience so many different cultures helped shape me into the person I am today.<br>What has changed since then? When I started this journey in 2019, I was still living in London and my days looked mostly like this: morning walk, heading to my local organic store, coming up with some recipes, emails (as freelancing is a non-stop hassle), a bit of downtime, and repeat.<br>Sounds glamorous, but I had many years when I was trying to climb that corporate ladder and, even before that, being in hospitality, which was so traumatising in a way that I don\u2019t even want to give those experiences any other thought, except that they helped me become stronger and not give up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Well, after living in the city for eight years, I was, in a way, directed to a different path and moved to the countryside. It wasn\u2019t necessarily a glamorous choice and I didn\u2019t fully predict it at the time.<br>It took me over two years to find myself in this new setting, as I had left so much behind. I\u2019m someone who thrives on routine, but when I fall off, it takes a long time to find and adjust to a new one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1800\" src=\"https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edited-by-Laforance_-6-1440x1800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14\" style=\"width:222px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edited-by-Laforance_-6-1440x1800.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edited-by-Laforance_-6-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edited-by-Laforance_-6-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edited-by-Laforance_-6-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edited-by-Laforance_-6-800x1000.jpg 800w, https:\/\/laforance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edited-by-Laforance_-6-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Organic stores? Nah. We have farm-fresh shopping. Soho and the high street got swapped for thrifting. It was an adjustment, but I can now say that this way of life is giving me the peace and creative freedom that my soul desires.<br>For years I had a busy main street outside my windows, now I have nothing, just birds and nature. Within these few years I did move once, but not too far, just literally next door. Maybe I have a thing for moving, who knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t want to make this too long, and I hope you stick around and come back from time to time, as I share my realistic slow and sustainable life along with delicious vegan recipes and travel adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,I always feel awkward writing about myself, and I&#8217;m not sure if you found me through my Instagram or YouTube, or one of my recipes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,11,15,13,16,9,7,12,10,14],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellness","tag-countryside-life","tag-digital-creator","tag-freelancer-life","tag-hungarian-in-the-uk","tag-intentional-living","tag-london-to-countryside","tag-slow-living","tag-sustainable-living","tag-vegan-lifestyle","tag-wellness-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laforance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}