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We sold everything to move abroad and chase our dream - now Covid and Brexit threaten our future
direct to your inboxOn Boxing Day in 2004, Sam Thomas and her husband John were supposed to be in a beach hut on Koh Phi Phi - a beach hut that would soon be destroyed by the tsunami that killed a quarter of a million people.But weeks earlier, a chance conversation on a boat in Laos prompted the pair to cut their travels around south east Asia short and give a ski season a go.It meant that they were in a chalet in the Alps watching the devastating disaster unfold on TV, instead of before their very eyes.Sam says this fortunate twist of fate was the final push she needed to start following her heart, rather than her head.She packed in a successful decade-long career in recruitment in Manchester, sold all of her assets, and reinvested them in