\u201cEvery time we’re down here, I suppose that there’s a number of things that kind of stick out,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou notice the cost of things are just a hell of a lot cheaper than back home.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s always kind of half-hearted to say, \u2018God, why aren’t we living here?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we kind of laugh it off and then move on; then the laugh started getting shorter and shorter.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The couple have no children and Mr Byrom\u2019s work involves touring the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It means they have the freedom to live anywhere they want – provided the have the right to residency.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere I’m actually based isn’t necessarily an issue for me,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Catherine got a job opportunity which allowed her to work remotely.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it was one of these sliding door moments where we’re like, \u2018Okay, it’s either now or never.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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The beachfront in the town of Nerja on Spain\u2019s Costa Del Sol. Picture by: Stefan Toonstra \/ Alamy.com.<\/p>\n
However, there was one big push factor that stood out for them – the cost of housing in Ireland that only ever seems to increase.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve got to be honest with you; at the end of each month, we were renting in Dublin and we were saving for or trying to save for a mortgage,\u201d Mr Byrom said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth of us are on a decent wage and we’re not wealthy, we’re not poor, we’re kind of somewhere in the middle there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd at the end of each month, you’d be like, where’s our money?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Byrom continued that the housing crisis in Ireland meant they felt like they were \u201cconstantly swimming against the tide\u201d and Spain simply felt more affordable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also feels that many in Ireland look down on renters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as you say renting – maybe this is on me – but you’re kind of made to feel less,\u201d Mr Byrom said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’re a lesser person because you only rent; so, you felt there was a sort of a nearly a little bit of a stigma.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irish tenor has said he and his wife have moved to Spain because there is a lingering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-547612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}