In 2016, Sarah Olney Ross had been “struggling” with an interest-only mortgage when she sold her cottage near Cirencester in Gloucestershire and decided to move to France.

She now lives in Uzerche in the south west of France, in a home that she describes as a “Harry Potter medieval house, meets New York loft”.

Sarah had always wanted to live in France, and took the plunge in early 2016, before the vote for the UK to leave the European Union.

It enabled her to go entirely mortgage-free, after selling her UK-based home for £175,000, and buying the French property for €108,000, which now equates to around £94,000.

“I moved as soon as someone made me a cash offer – I honestly think I may have been repossessed if I had stayed given where the economy is. I was a Brexit escapee in that I move

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