.png)
2 hours ago
1
A MUM-of-one who moved her young household to Mauritius for a “better lifestyle” has said that she’d “have to triumph the lottery to determination back”.
Annabel Fenwick Elliott, 37, didn't privation to enactment her lad Jasper, two, successful childcare and rapidly realised she could “never afford” her bully manner successful the UK.
3
3
3
At the aforesaid time, her German-born husband, Julius Scholtes, 31, couldn't get a British visa.
So, travelling implicit 6,000 miles to East Africa successful September 2023 for a caller beingness with little enactment and regular trips to the beach conscionable made sense.
"I don't deliberation you tin person a bully beingness successful the UK unless you person a important magnitude of money,” Annabel tells.
"You request truthful overmuch to unrecorded successful a decent house.
"I'd person to triumph the lottery to determination back."
The household lives successful Poste de Flacq and pays a akin terms for a four-bedroom location with a excavation arsenic Annabel did for her "tiny" workplace level successful London.
The single-room location outgo her £1,200 successful mortgage and bills - and that was earlier the outgo of surviving situation kicked off.
Annabel moved retired to enactment with a friend successful Essex aft giving commencement to Jasper and had "initially wanted to settee successful the UK".
But she had to determination overseas erstwhile chopper aviator Julius was incapable to get a UK visa contempt having a British-born son.
The household initially moved to Iceland successful 2022 earlier moving to Mauritius successful September 2023 for a job.
School mums forced maine to wage £150 much for my kids' day with their cheeky move
They past fell successful emotion with their location and person ne'er looked back.
"We person a big, large house,” Annabel tells.
“I ne'er thought I'd beryllium capable to unrecorded determination similar this.
"In England this would beryllium much than a £1 cardinal house.
What assistance is disposable to parents for childcare costs?
CHILDCARE tin beryllium a costly business. Here is however you tin get help.
- 30 hours of free childcare - Parents of 3 and four-year-olds tin use for 30 hours of escaped childcare a week.
To suffice you indispensable enactment astatine slightest 16 hours a week astatine the nationalist surviving oregon minimum wage and gain little than £100,000 a year. - Tax credits - For children nether 20, immoderate families tin get assistance with childcare costs.
- Tax-free childcare - Available to moving families and the self-employed, for each £8 you enactment successful the authorities volition adhd an other £2.
"Everything is truthful overmuch cheaper."
The inexpensive outgo of surviving means she tin spend to enactment astatine location with Jasper - and enactment from location arsenic a freelance journalist, portion inactive renting retired her workplace level successful London.
"I didn't privation to person to enactment Jasper successful daycare,” she says.
"All my friends had to enactment their babies successful daycare astatine 9 oregon 10 months old.
"The conception of moving afloat clip erstwhile you don't privation to beryllium distant from your babe - conscionable to spend to bring them up - is wrong.
"I would person had specified mum guilt."
The mean outgo of sending a kid nether the property of 2 to nursery successful the UK is £300 a week full-time - an eye-watering £14,030 a year.
For part-time tots successful childcare, the mean outgo is £148.63 a week, oregon £7,210 a year.
Annabel feels being capable to spend to bring up a babe "shouldn't beryllium excessively overmuch to ask".
She adds: "I don't spot however we could person a bully manner successful the UK.
"I consciousness truthful lucky."
.png "indianexpress.")
.png "khaleejtimes")
.png "arabnews")
.png "gulfnews"){kind=logo}
English (US) · 
Hindi (IN) ·