Deciding to give up everything you have and own to move to another country with your kids, is a decision not to be taken lightly. It’s a decision my wife and I made last year November on a visit to the UK.

Here we are five months later and I am not the favourite son in law back home, but we are extremely happy. Our two kids of seven and nine years old have settled nicely into school (all English, no Afrikaans) and our 16 year old is working in a coffee shop, earning about £200 a week and looking forward to starting college in September.

We are confident that we have made the right choice in moving here and have no intention of going back home soon. We are here on a five year ancestral visa and hope to gain citizenship. You have to come here with a definite plan in mind otherwise it becomes difficult. First there is survival mode: we are in this mode now. Then you break even and then you start to live. All this considered, we are confident that we made the right choice.