Picture courtesy of Natalie Coulson
What would you do if the dream of owning your home seemed to be slipping away?
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What would you do if the dream of owning your home seemed to be slipping away? For one Aussie mum, the solution was packing up her family and heading for exotic shores, trading Oz for the Land of Smiles.
Natalie Coulson, a 45 year old mother of one, had enough of Sydney’s spiralling property market. The fear of a lifetime of renting and slogging away at a tedious 9-to-5 was more terrifying than the prospect of moving abroad. In a bold twist of fate, she and her family left their three-bedroom duplex in Manly and embarked on a daring adventure in Thailand.
“It’s risky but living in Sydney was a bigger gamble.”
The Coulson clan – Natalie, her 60 year old partner Fred, and their five year old son Alex, decided it was now or never. After 10 years of overseeing the Sydney seascape, they waved it goodbye, lured by the promise of palm trees…