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Toronto woman shares how costs of living in Maldives are way different than home

One Canadian who swapped city living for a life on an island of 500 people in the Maldives says she couldn’t be happier.Former Toronto resident Gen Darling, 31, is a full-time content creator and co-owner of Jimmy's Excursions, a newly launched tour company in the Maldives that organizes snorkelling, freediving and group trips.Expat life isn't new for Darling."After graduating from Dalhousie University in 2015, I left Canada to travel South East Asia with my best friends, and after four months of travel, I got a job in Taiwan teaching English," she said. "I mark this as the start of my expat life."Finding love in the MaldivesThe Maldives wasn’t exactly part of Darling's plan."The short answer to this is that I fell in love. I met my now husband while I was on vacation here in 2017, and I immediately had a good energy about the country," she said. "I felt a freedom I hadn't felt in other places. There's calmness and peace in the way of living here that...


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