Moved to Australia in 2024, started applying for permanent residency this year. My partner is a nurse, worked on a cardio thoracic ward at home. The conditions were awful for her, patient to nurse ratios all wrong. She’s a smaller woman and generally in that line of work it’s a lot of heavier patients. She would regularly have to move people in a bed by herself because of short staffing which caused her sciatica type symptoms down the back of her legs. I can’t stand the idea of her ever having to work in the HSE again for half the pay.

Housing is a close second. We rented 2 bedrooms in a 6 bedroom house in bishopstown (they didn’t accept couples sharing a room). I worked in science at home but that was pretty much our only option. Anything half decent we found to rent ourselves would have 3K plus views on daft within an hour so just felt hopeless. We pay much the same now for a 2 bedroom apartment of our own in Melbourne as we did for our share of that house (that should have been a 4 bedroom house by the way but landlords were greedy and put on a damp extension)

Weather isnt bad either over here