A New Life in the Sun stars say leaving UK is ‘best thing’ they did

A New Life in the Sun: Colin and Kim discuss their life in France

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Last week, Channel 4 viewers tuned in to watch a group of entrepreneurs decide to start up their company in another country. One of which included the couple Colin and Kim who spoke to Express.co.uk ahead of the series’ return about their events business in France.

One of the businesses that the Channel 4 show followed last week was run by couple Kim and Colin who decided to set up their company in Saint-Raphaël.

During the episode, viewers learnt that the couple sold up their Essex home and bought a 200-year-old former winery for €370,000.

Having run events in the past back in the UK, they had plans of turning their new French home into a venue fit for a series of occasions.

The large six-bedroom house boats two reception rooms, a wine cellar, swimming pool and sits within 10 acres of land.

Speaking to Express.co.uk about the move, the couple admits to having no regrets and praise their decision on starting up their company in France.

When asked what advice they’d give to anybody thinking of setting up a new life abroad, both said: “Just do it.”

Kim added: “Don’t hang around until you’re a lot older, I do think I wish I’d have done it when I was a bit younger.

“But we’re quite healthy people and the thing is with me and Colin, we’re quite a good team so we just get stuck in and do it.

“You’ve got to have a good team with your partner to come here and share everything to do because it’s too much for one person.”

Colin highlighted that it’s not as easy as people may think, especially with the current economic crisis that is happening.

The event owner admitted to knowing people who have had to sell their business abroad because they didn’t know what they were doing as Kim highlighted the importance of researching before making the move.

As the duo also have another business in the UK, Colin added that they’re fortunate to be able to do two things at the same time, which meant they didn’t have to throw their life savings into the company in France.

Colin said: “You’ve got to have a plan B, if you don’t you could lose quite a lot of money quite quickly.

“People think these houses are quite cheap, but the older ones take quite a lot to do them up.

“I think you’ve just got to do a bit more research than we did, we were fortunate that we could take chances.”

Although when it came to speaking about the leap from the UK to France, it looked as though neither of them had any regrets as they praised their decision.

Colin continued: “It’s not as easy as it could be, it’s well worth it though, it’s the best thing we’ve ever done.”

Echoing in agreement, Kim added: “I’m really glad that we’ve done it and took that step.

“Because we did it before Brexit, we’ve been a lot more lucky than people who have done it after.

“I think that’s another reason I’ve got to sit here now and think, ‘this is the right thing’ because everything fell into place.”

A New Life in the Sun is available to watch on All4.

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