An Irish Goodbye… from Bologna: ‘Finding somewhere to live can still be competitive but compared to Ireland, the process felt more attainable financially’

“I moved to Bologna for the first time on an Erasmus in 2015, followed by a year in Catania, Sicily. I was back living in Ireland when I met my Italian partner in 2019 – he was travelling in Ireland for a month. So I decided to pack up and move back to Bologna, a city that had once been a home for me too.