After doing two Masters degrees trying to ride out the GFC in Ireland and there was still no sign of it ending, I decided to move to Australia to try to start a better life. Growing up, I had always had a fascination with Australia. I think I watched too much Home and Away when I was younger, and that gave me a skewed view of what life here was – that everybody is good-looking, and nobody has any worries! Then I arrived in Melbourne in winter, and it was not exactly the sunny landscape I had imagined. I . . .