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A 26-year-old Nottingham woman said she was burnt out and cried every single day in work before she started a new life on the other side of the world — and she has no regrets about leaving

A burnt-out Brit who was so stressed she cried every day at work quit the UK for Australia — and claims she now makes double her salary.

Wynter Yeomans moved to Sydney, Australia, with her partner, Luke Richards, in February 2025 seeking a better work-life balance.

The 26-year-old, who worked in pharmaceutical marketing, landed a marketing job within three months of the move, claiming her pay packet and quality of life skyrocketed.

Wynter, who earned £25,000 in her previous job, said she now earns £48,000 ($90,500 AUD) and no longer ‘lives for the weekend’ — enjoying all free time outside of work.

While Wynter spends $1,500 (£795) on rent, she said other expenses like food and coffee are lower than in the UK.

Wynter, whose hometown Nottingham is 10,000 miles from where she now lives, said: “We loved the idea of living abroad so we decided instead of moving into a place in the UK to move to a place in Australia.

“I finish work and I’ve got the whole evening — people go to the beach and have BBQs with friends. There’s a lot less focus on the weekend, people are out most of the weekdays. I feel like in the UK you live for the weekends.

“I went travelling, I did Southeast Asia around 2022 for about five months and I loved it. Coming home after travelling really made me realise how much bigger the world is than your home town — meeting people and seeing different countries.

“As soon as I got back it was a shock to the system. When you’re travelling you are doing so much and then you come home and everyone is doing the same thing. I make so much more money, in the UK I was on £25,000 and here I’m on £48,000 for an entry position.

“I used to pay my mum £150 rent a month. Now I pay $1,500 in rent. I used to cry to my mum that I can’t afford her rent and now I don’t bat an eyelid.

“Things are so much cheaper here compared to the UK. You can get coffee for £2. You have your happy hours and people eat out all the time.”

After travelling in South East Asia in 2022, Wynter saw her mental health decline when she returned home in July 2023, describing the first six months back in the UK as “a dark place”.

Due to the stressful nature of her job, she claimed she would cry daily and break out in rashes.

In February 2025, Wynter and Luke, who now works as a tree surgeon, jetted out to Australia and say they now enjoy a better work-life balance.

But she warns of the difficulties of moving abroad that might not be visible on social media.

Wynter said: “I really struggled, I really didn’t fit it. The first six months were a dark place, I really struggled to get back to reality.

“I landed a corporate job. I would cry every day at work and I was so stressed, I was breaking out in rashes. It was cold, it would be dark when I drove to and back from work.

“We appreciate the summer in the UK and Brits love a pub garden, but the work-life balance — I found no one I worked with had that. My mental health was not great, I love the sun so we had a good reason to push to leave.

“It’s easy to see people on TikTok living amazing lives, it took me three months to get my job. I have a science background and did pharmaceutical marketing in the UK.

“It can be really scary picking up your whole life and moving, everything is so uncertain. You can try it and if it doesn’t work out you can go back home.

“I came with my partner and I’m very fortunate in that. You just have to trust the process.”

OLIVIA Attwood has heartbreakingly revealed she “cried so much” she “nearly passed out” in the aftermath of her split with Bradley Dack.

The Love Island alum, 34, and footballer spouse Bradley, 32, split in January and she claimed recently that his infidelities were the reason for the relationship ending.

The Loose Women panelist then told how she felt like a “f**king idiot” and admitted covering and lying for the footballer in a fiery statement.

Olivia has showed her vulnerability as she navigates her new life chapter and admitted she was “learning to forgive” herself.

Now she has spoken candidly to the Extra Dirrty podcast, recorded in March, about the backlash towards her response to her marriage breakdown.

It came as she found herself at the centre of wedding fakery row, after it came to light that she and Bradley were never legally married.

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Olivia told the podcast: “I can only see what I’ve had because people just like to give women a hard time.

“Someone wrote me on my TikTok yesterday when I was with the girls in New York having fun, and she’s like ‘I really hope someone screws you over so badly, like you’re such a cold calculated b***h.’

“I thought, it’s because I’m open and I talk about all kinds of things, but I’m not going to video myself crying and put it on the internet.

“I’m just f*****g not”.

She poured out her heart further and said: “It doesn’t mean I don’t cry. I have cried, I’ve cried so hard during this breakup to the point where I f*****g think I’m going to pass out, and then I will slap myself in the face and go to work.

“I don’t need to be crying on the internet, I don’t think that people, professionally, are going to respect me and book me to host their TV shows when I’m videoing myself lying on the floor crying”.

Olivia then told how it had been her most painful break up yet and continued: “I think that when you know you tried, we both tried so many things to make it work, so of course it’s just so sad. It’s sad.

“Also, this is why I’ve not rushed to say anything because it’s like, I can still acknowledge the fact that I like him and I love him as a person, those things can still be true while knowing that it’s run its course.

“I think it would be easier if I hated him, which I don’t”.

Previously, Gillingham player Brad spoke out to defend Olivia on social media while we exclusively told how her family had cut ties with him.

While attempting to get on with her life, with a work trip to Seoul, Olivia re-posted an inspirational quote to her Instagram page.

On it she added the caption: “I’m in love with this sentence”.

It read: “Forgive yourself, for not knowing earlier what only time could teach you”.

Earlier this month, we were told by pals that Bradley had been unfaithful to Olivia, hence the break-up.

Confirming this was the case, Olivia, who wed Bradley in 2023, finally broke her silence on the situation this week in a statement shared to Instagram Stories.

She wrote: “I have stood by Brad for the last ten years during which he lied & cheated on me multiple times.

“The breakdown of our relationship is because of this.

“I was in love with him and the potential I saw in him and wanted always to help him try to be the best version of himself – as I did for 10 years.

“Covering up. Lying to my family and friends. Arranging therapy. Believing the grovelling apologies.

“I of course now feel like a f***ing idiot (Especially as more things come to the surface).

“I never wanted to say any of this. I find the whole situation utterly humiliating.

“But some of the disgusting things written about me in the last few weeks just blow my mind – and of course sadly it’s always fellow females doing the writing.”

Olivia added that she decided to leave her marriage after being told he was unfaithful again in January.

The star also confirmed that she is now dating after being seen kissing Pete Wicks.