Software developer Victor Varlamov logs in every morning to work on a sunny Spanish island off the coast of Africa. The prospect of steep heating bills and a winter made harsher by the Ukraine war drove him to leave his adoptive home in Poland.
He is not alone in pursuing a warmer, cheaper way of life as tourist boards across southern Europe have seized on the cost of living crisis to advertise the benefits of wintering abroad to those living in more northerly countries.
Varmalov, 50, together with his wife and teenage daughter, moved from Poland’s Baltic coast to Gran Canaria in Spain’s Canary Islands two months ago and plans to
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