George Drost left Czechoslovakia when he was just three years old — his family fled Communist rule there as … ...

First of all, the Czech Republic was cheaper. “My construction costs in the Czech Republic are two-thirds of what they’d be in the U.K.,” Burton says.

In the Czech Republic, “there are lots of subterranean basements with vaulted ceilings, monasteries, churches, and an endless supply of castles open to the public,” says “Musketeers ...