Tanya

No.

No, I'm facing the stark reality that I just cannot afford to stay.

Myself and my husband work full time.

I work in the community as a health and social care worker and my husband works as a maintenance operator in civil engineering.

So we've been mortgage approved for the last

five or six years we have a deposit and we've all the boxes ticked but we just can't find anywhere and we have two children with additional needs we're living in a house that has no garden it's dumped it's disrepaired we can't get you know we can't get the landlord to look at the issue and we're just facing the reality that maybe there's a better life somewhere else where where would you go

At the moment, we're contemplating Spain and possibly trying to stay within Europe to avoid, you know, visa applications and everything else.

And as well, my husband's job has opportunities where he can transfer to, you know, like depots in Spain already and Portugal.

So we're looking down the road of that at the moment.

My kids are 12 and 8.

Absolutely.

And learning how to speak a new language and everything.

And that's what I meant when I said a stark realisation because this is not being contemplated out of choice.

It's being contemplated out of necessity.

And it's not something that I want.

I want to stay in Ireland.

I want to give my children the childhood that I had

here um but as i said like i'm 33 my husband is 30 and we have two growing children and zero opportunities

Absolutely.

That's what we want to do.