A family swapped ‘miserable’ Scotland for Malta – where their energy bill costs just £85 and they have no pressure to ‘keep up with the Joneses’.
Laura and Callum Anderson, both 42, moved out with their youngest daughter when their heating bill shot up to £1,100 a month.
They swapped their £1,600-a-month four-bed farmhouse in Fife for a three-bedroom penthouse for £2,500 per month and moved out in October 2026.
And despite the jump on rent they are saving £1,251 a month – as bills and petrol are cheaper and there is no council tax.
Laura, a business owner, now living in Naxxar, Malta, said:
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