• Frances Schultz sold her home in the Hamptons in 2017. Now she lives in the Cotswolds. • The Cotswolds, often called the "Hamptons of England," are drawing in Americans like Schultz. • She likes both, but she said the British countryside was what she needed at this stage of life.

This essay is based on a conversation with Frances Schultz, an American artist and writer in her mid-60s who lived in the Hamptons and now owns a house in the Cotswolds. It has been edited for length and clarity.

I moved to the Hamptons, in spite of it being the Hamptons, and later to the Cotswolds, in spite of it being the "Hamptons of England." The status-symbol side of these places was never what drew me in.

The Hamptons and the Cotswolds are completely different from one another, but there's a reason

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