Foxtons has been pushing into the capital's outer zones to reduce its reliance on central London.
Her final posting, as chargée d'affaires in Ulan Bator, the capital of Outer Mongolia, was a radical change.
It was intriguing to read broadsheet columnists blaming the result on voters in the "richer" boroughs of the capital's outer ring.
The number of people cycling to work in inner London rose by 144% over the decade, against a more modest 45% rise in the capital's outer suburbs.
Boris Johnson's two mayoral election wins were famously founded on a so-called "doughnut strategy" of wooing voters on the capital's outer ring.
The Tories strengthened their grip on the capital's outer ring but failed to reclaim the south-west from the Lib Dems.
The procession ended on Tuesday in Moscow, where, strapped to a truck, the cross was driven around the capital's outer ring road.
A survey by the Evening Standard newspaper earlier this year found only around 20 for sale, almost all in rundown areas of the capital's outer suburbs.
But now a 160mph race between Audi- and Porsche-driving Real Madrid players on the Spanish capital's outer ring road has left striker Karim Benzema facing a possible jail sentence and other team-mates facing hefty fines.
Newham and Haringey, for example, were deemed part of Outer London when the capital's 32 boroughs were created by the Local Government Act 1963, but how much do they have in common with Richmond?
