We were very excited to be given the opportunity to move to Ireland through my obtaining a job offer on a CSEP.

We lived well enough in South Africa but had been looking to move for various reasons and one of them, quite honestly, was that after the pandemic and the riots etc, work just wasn’t going well for my husband and we wanted to make a fresh start financially as well as on all other levels.

We scrimped and saved and came over with just enough to basically get here and keep going for about a month.

Point being – we didn’t have a massive amount of money to just dip into in the case of a crisis and we had to manage our finances very carefully.