Will Moynahan, 35, is a principal headhunter with the recruitment company Heidrick and Struggles. He works in London and lives in Butlers Cross, Buckinghamshire, north-west of the capital with his wife, Sara, their five-week-old son Patrick, and one-year-old springer spaniel Ruby.

We moved just over two years ago; me from Pimlico, Sara from Mayfair in London. We were engaged and soon to be married. Although Sara’s parents’ farm is about six miles away, I started the process of moving here. I grew up in London and Paris, was at university in London and had lived there ever since, but every Monday I’d think: “How can I get out at the weekend?” So I decided it was crazy to carry on living there, took the plunge, and have never looked back.

Our house is a period village property, semi-detached, with three large bedrooms and a nice garden. It’s one of the original houses in the village. There are three next to each other, all a couple of hundred of years old. It was originally a coach house, so it’s airy despite its thick walls, with big windows and high ceilings.

Butlers Cross is on the northern border of the prime minister’s country estate, Chequers, so called because the butlers from Chequers used to live here. The village pub, the Russell, is named after Chequers’ 18th and 19th century owners. There are some modern houses in the village but, although there are plans for building in nearby Aylesbury, this is an area of outstanding natural beauty, so there won’t be any here.

The area is excellent for walking. There’s the Ridgeway, the Upper Icknield way and at least four long circular walks passing nearby, plus Chequers. You are allowed access to certain parts of the estate, including the front garden and across the drive, with a full view of the mansion. Above Chequers is Coombe Hill, from where you can see at least three counties. Being hilly, it’s also popular with cyclists.

The one slight drawback is that because we are on the way to Wendover station, the road can be noisy during rush-hour.

A concession for that is that the area is eminently practical to reach. It takes an hour from the front door to get to [London Transport] Zone One by train, or you can drive in less than that. Heathrow is 25 minutes away on a good day.

We get on well with the villagers. I go to the pub and to the local church a couple of times a month and we regularly see a gang of about five neighbouring families. Most of them are older than us but we still hang out and have fun.

The Russell is our favourite place in the evening. It does good food yet it’s still a proper pub, so we get the best of both worlds. When we arrived there weren’t many places to eat, which was surprising because it was a wealthy area, but gradually pubs are serving better food and a few good restaurants have sprung up nearby.