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I ditched the UK to live in South Africa – cocktails cost pennies, rent is £450 and I can work by the pool
LAYING on a sun lounger beside a private pool, surrounded by lush tropical foliage, Plum Leigh reaches for her laptop to start work. But the 27-year-old, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, is not on a working holiday - she’s ditched the UK for life in South …