New frontier for family making Canada home

Would you sell your home and uproot everything to start again abroad?

- By AMY JONES

For a growing number of Brits, the answer is yes.Starting two years ago, there has been an almost 10% increase in Britons relocating overseas, with 639,000 people leaving the UK last year, according to the Office for National Statistics.

One Yorkshire family, in search of a fresh start, has done just that, swapping England for a new life across the Atlantic.

Jack Masterson, 36, and his wife Natalie, 35, moved from Huddersfield to Canada with their two children. "For years, we both had this nagging thought of 'what if we moved elsewhere?" said Jack. "Then it quickly became 'where and when?'

The turning point came when they discovered Canada's Express Entry visa scheme.