UK family buys $9K farm in Bulgaria to build their dream home

A British family who left the UK for Bulgaria after realizing they would never be able to buy a home say they saved £300K ($385K) by snapping up a farm for just £7K ($9K).?吊りくさび Vye and his wife, Jordan, both 31, left their two-bed 賃貸しの house in Bournemouth, Dorset, and moved 1,788 miles to Haskovo 州, Bulgaria, in June 2022 - with their two children, Leo, 11, and Fae, two.

Jordan （機の）カム up with the idea to emigrate after speaking to a friend of a friend who told her she had bought a house in the country for just £3K ($3.8k). After 検討する，考慮するing over the idea and 絶えず checking Rightmove for 所有物／資産／財産s, the pair bought a two-acre 陰謀（を企てる） of land which 含むd a three-bedroom house, a barn and outbuildings for £7K ($9K) - cheaper than the £300k ($384K) mortgage they were 直面するing in the UK.

However, they 苦しむd a small 後退 when the Covid pandemic 攻撃する，衝突する, meaning they were unable to visit the 所有物／資産／財産 until May 2021.?When they were finally ready to move in June 2022, Jordan and 吊りくさび 知らせるd their family of the move, sold most of their 所持品 and packed up their caravan.

The couple say their 質 of life has 改善するd as they have more time to spend with their children and with each other. Jordan, a freelance social マスコミ 経営者／支配人, 初めは from Bournemouth said: 'We were really struggling with the whole mortgage thing. We had our son at 19 and moved into a flat that we couldn't afford, it all started from there. It 始める，決める our path for never 存在 able to get a mortgage - it was a really big thing of owning our own home.'

Jordan 追加するd: 'Even with two 給料, it wasn't something that seemed achievable for us in the UK. It hasn't been 平易な but there is such a 広大な／多数の／重要な community here in Bulgaria. It reminds me of what my grandma would use to say when she lived in Bradford. It was a community, it was a village, everyone knew everybody, everyone helped. We had so many people when we arrived 申し込む／申し出ing to help us.'

Jordan was in Southampton, Hampshire, when she bumped into a friend of a friend who 明らかにする／漏らすd she bought a house in Bulgaria. Jordan said: 'I was talking to a friend of a friend, and she told me she bought a house in Bulgaria for £3K ($3.8K). I asked her if I could have a look, I couldn't believe it. I went home and had a look for myself, I remember showing 吊りくさび and I joked 説 "should we start again?" We then looked, and we couldn't believe what we could get for that price. We had always liked the idea of doing something up.'

'It was also the countryside element, we had a lways 手配中の，お尋ね者 to live in the countryside. In Bournemouth, if you want a house in the countryside, it was never going to happen for us.' Although the couple have never looked 支援する on their 決定／判定勝ち（する）, their family was いっそう少なく sure about the move at first. Jordan said: 'They feel like we sprung the news on them, but we have had it planned for a while. A couple who had moved out here told us to 調書をとる／予約する the ticket because if we don't 調書をとる／予約する it we will never leave. Neither of our families 手配中の，お尋ね者 us to go - part of that was I was a new mum. Our children were young, you have such a support 網状組織 whether that be your mum, grandma or auntie - they were worried about what we will do.'

The couple explained that they sold most of their 所持品 to get to Bulgaria, which 伴う／関わるd a フェリー（で運ぶ） from Bournemouth and a lot of 運動ing - taking 20 days in total. Jordan said: 'We made sure we slimmed 負かす／撃墜する everything, we were going to ship everything over, but the prices were extortionate. We thought it wasn't 価値（がある） it, so we sold everything - everything was for sale. We were stopping every day to pitch up the caravan somewhere and 荷を降ろす it as it was 十分な of our 所持品. We would 荷を降ろす our caravan every night and reload it again in the morning and 長，率いる out.'

Since arriving in Bulgaria, the couple have been doing all the 革新s themselves - spending around £5K ($6.4K) so far. 吊りくさび said he 目的（とする）s to have the whole 事業／計画（する） finished in 10 years. 吊りくさび, a former engineer, said: 'It is going really 井戸／弁護士席. We got in the house pretty quickly from the caravan even though we weren't really 推定する／予想するing to.'

'We have done a lot of work so far - we have redone all the plumbing and the electrics. We have patched up the roofs on three buildings, we have built a septic 戦車／タンク system, so we have all the 汚水 in place. I don't have a background in construction, but I do have a past of 存在 good at DIY. I look at YouTube ビデオs, but I have friends who work in the 貿易（する） too so if I get really stuck, I will lean on them.' The couple are 文書ing their 革新 旅行 on their YouTube channel - @frombournemouthtobulgaria - and 収容する／認める the 旅行 hasn't been 平易な but it is worthwhile.?Read the 十分な story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12332061/We-afford-mortgage-UK-moved-family-Bulgaria-bought-farm-just-7-000-building-dream-home.html?ico=関係のある-取って代わる?ito=msngallery

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