A family-of-six “escaped” the UK and bought a £23.4k house in Bulgaria to be mortgage-free – and save £21.6k-a-year on their household bills. Amy Smerdon, 35, and her husband, Jerry, 53, had always ...

A family purchased an abandoned home in Bulgaria for a mere £8,000 without even seeing it in person, all in the pursuit of a "mortgage-free" life. Maxwell, 38, and Leah Jones, 29, have always ...

Some of the young Bulgarians forced home by the pandemic are staying for good – tempted by vastly improved job offers and a less stressful life. When COVID-19 struck Europe, hundreds of thousands of ...