A mum-of-one says her family has ditched the UK to world school their son - because it’s turned into a “dangerous, scary and bleak” place.
Diana Auria, 36, and husband, Jack McLoughlin, 37, made the decision to leave the UK for Manilla, Philippines, in January 2025.
The mum, originally from Folkestone, Kent, says the UK “needs to get its s**t together” and blamed the death of the high street, terrorism and “the threat of nuclear war” for leaving, among other factors.
Now, she and Jack, a production company founder, are working remotely as “digital nomads” travelling Southeast Asia - and their son, four, is being world-schooled by his parents.
Diana, a fashion designer, said: “For us, the negatives of the UK outweigh the positives - and for now, we’re going to be travelling around and world-schooling our son.
Diana Auria, 36, and husband, Jack McLoughlin, 37, made the decision to leave the UK for Manilla, Philippines, in January 2025.
The mum, originally from Folkestone, Kent, says the UK “needs to get its s**t together” and blamed the death of the high street, terrorism and “the threat of nuclear war” for leaving, among other factors.
Now, she and Jack, a production company founder, are working remotely as “digital nomads” travelling Southeast Asia - and their son, four, is being world-schooled by his parents.
Diana, a fashion designer, said: “For us, the negatives of the UK outweigh the positives - and for now, we’re going to be travelling around and world-schooling our son.
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00:00We are leaving England and moving abroad for a better life. I made a post about this on my TikTok
00:06a few days ago and honestly I did not realise how much it would blow up. It's currently on over a
00:12million views and I've had multiple journalists contact me and I've even had the TikTok being
00:19featured in the Mirror and Board Panda by journalists who did not contact me and have
00:24just used my TikTok without permission. So hi to you journalists out there who have used my
00:30post without permission. It would have been nice if you'd made a courtesy call before you posted it
00:35but we move on. I had a lot of comments on that post and I thought I would come on here and answer
00:41a few of the questions for you. One of the main questions that I got is where are we moving to?
00:46So we are getting on a one-way flight this weekend and we are going straight to the Philippines
00:52and then from there we are going to be traveling around Southeast Asia to places like Singapore,
00:57Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and then hopefully we'll even go to Japan and South Korea. There are so
01:04many countries that we want to visit and there's so much of the world that we want to see so we
01:09are going to use this opportunity to be a travel family for a bit and then we will figure out a
01:14place that we want to settle. The next question that I got a lot was what will we be doing for
01:19work? So me and my husband have a business together and we have built it to a point where
01:25we can work remotely and we can work from anywhere in the world. So that is really handy in having
01:32that digital nomad kind of lifestyle but it hasn't been easy. We finally feel comfortable enough
01:38to take the leap and go and leave England for long term. And another question that we got was are you
01:44allowed to homeschool and do you need a degree to do that? Yes we are allowed to homeschool. We have
01:50deregistered our child from primary school so he's not in school anymore. He finished his last day
01:57last week and obviously we have made a lot of friends and he's made a lot of friends in his
02:04class. We are planning to come back here every summer so we will still be keeping in touch with
02:10all of these families we've made friends with and because of the digital era now he can be on
02:15WhatsApp, you know, video calls with them. That's what I plan to do with the mums and arrange
02:20kind of chats over the phone so the kids can still keep in touch and so yeah I don't have
02:26any worries about that. He'll be meeting so many new kids whilst we are travelling and he will
02:31definitely be socialising and we will still be doing his homework and his homeschooling every
02:36single day. We have resources online, the teachers have given us the curriculum that they teach them
02:43in school and no you do not need a degree to teach your kids at primary school level and luckily
02:52enough in this digital world that we live in everything is online. There's apps on iPads and
02:59I've bought loads of different books, phonics books and workbooks that he can do every single day even
03:04whilst we are travelling. They are the answers to those questions. If you have any more questions
03:10then feel free to ask them in my comments. If you are interested in our world schooling or
03:15homeschooling journey then please follow along. I will be posting every day or as much as I can do
03:22but yeah follow along and see how our journey unfolds. Bye!