oz01Beginning a his new life in Australia moved Lee Martin-Seymour’s career in a very unusual direction, as he tells Anna Gizowska

Successful business and family man Lee Martin-Seymour is used to getting what he wants, and in addition to landing the girl of his dreams and a lifestyle to match he also found the perfect location to settle down and start a family – Sydney, Australia.

The proud dad to two-year-old son Elliot, Martin says it’s all down to meeting his teenage sweetheart, Melanie. “I’d never even thought about Australia until I met Melanie,” says Lee, born in Bexleyheath in Kent, who now runs an IT recruitment division in the heart of the famous harbour city on the other side of the world.

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oz02When former teacher Rebecca Frith swapped Northants for Australia’s Sunshine Coast in 2007, she not only changed careers but tied the knot, too, as she tells Richard Webber

“When I reflect on why I moved to Australia in January 2007, it wasn’t because I was particularly fed up with the UK. It was more the way my life was going. Having worked for a long time as a primary teacher in deprived areas, I was feeling a bit jaded by some of the social problems I came across, and that was all you heard about on the evening news, too.

The chance of moving to Australia had arisen years earlier. My husband David and I first dated in 1999, just before he decided to emigrate. He asked me to move with him but I turned him down. We lost touch but bumped into each other at a mutual friend’s wedding in 2006. It was two days before he was due to return to Australia and I decided to visit on holiday. It didn’t take me long to realise it was a lovely sunny country, boasting happy people and a laidback culture.

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canada03Cathy and Ian Finlay, and their two daughters, 9-year-old Lauren and 2-year-old Jessica, have only been living in Canada a few months, but they spent years planning the move. Words Anna Tobin

“We decided to emigrate to Canada from our hometown of Morpeth, Northumberland, about two years ago,” Cathy Finlay explains. “My husband Ian was working for a construction company at the time, but because of the economic situation, local work was drying up. He was having to work further and further away from home. He was due to be sent to work in London the week I was due to give birth to Jessica; that’s when we decided something had to change.

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Gaia Pollini and her husband John left their fast-paced London lifestyle behind to set up a holistic retreat in rural Italy. Words Catherine Goddard

“When I met my husband John, we were both working at an advertising agency in London. After we got married and had our twin boys, we started dreaming about what we truly wanted to do and where we would like to live.

Fed up with the stress of London life, we both became very interested in holistic health. John studied shamanism and Chi Kung and I retrained as a breath therapist, hypnotherapist and Qi Gong specialist, working with individuals and group practices.

 

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Active ImageAfter falling in love with the Charente region of France, Mary Cadogan and husband Mick moved there and opened a cookery school. Words Catherine Goddard

 

"We have always enjoyed coming to France on holiday. As a food writer, one of the attractions for me is the wonderful local produce in every region. Five and a half years ago, we decided to buy a holiday home so we could spend more time here. We wanted somewhere close enough to the Channel to be easily accessible, far enough south to get better weather, but not too well known.

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