Annabel lives in Mauritius: villa cheaper than mini apartment in London

Annabel Fenwick Elliott, a 37-year-old freelance journalist, moved to Mauritius with her family last year. The Brit originally lived in a small studio in London with her German husband Julius Scholtes and their two-year-old son Jasper.

After her son was born, Annabel wanted to spend more time with him and not have him grow up in a daycare center. “I didn’t want Jasper to grow up in a crèche. “The idea of ​​working full time and not seeing my baby just to afford it is wrong,” she told the Daily Mail.

Housing costs in Mauritius are much lower than in London

In Mauritius, Annabel found a four-bedroom villa with a pool for the same price as her small one-bedroom apartment in London. Additionally, housing costs in Mauritius are much lower than in the UK. This means she can work from home and spend more time with her son.

“It’s a big house. I never thought I would be able to live in a house like this and afford it. In England it would cost a million. Everything is so much cheaper.” Annabel feels “so happy” with her new lifestyle and can’t imagine returning to the UK.

Retired couple emigrate and can afford two houses in Bulgaria

You can fulfill your dream of emigrating at any age: 65-year-old Simon and his wife Irena (64) are pensioners. He was a primary school teacher in the UK for 20 years and taught abroad for a further 20 years. Irena was a singer and later a singing teacher. They are spending their retirement in Bulgaria and never want to leave, as the Daily Mail reports. The couple now even owns two houses there.

The pair saw a report about Bulgaria in “A Place in the Sun,” the TV series about Brits moving abroad. “A few weeks later we rented a van and headed to our first house there. “We liked the idea that it was cheap to buy a property, that it wasn’t too crowded and that the weather was good,” says Simon. That was in the summer of 2005.