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SAFE HAVEN

Where for the past 10 years millennials have wanted a so-called pyjama lounge or home gym in any property they planned to buy or build, it now appears that the troubles of 2020 and the coronavirus have rearranged our priorities for how we live.

Design experts say that in the future people will be embracing a more sober, modest lifestyle. We now have a chance to rethink and reconsider what we buy and how we live, work and travel. A whole set of new buzzwords has appeared: community, distancing, hygiene, caring and adaptation.

2020 will definitely go down in history as the year in which the planet’s pause button was pushed and humanity was forced, abruptly, to stop in its tracks.

Not only are we going to want to live,

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