Millions of Scottish people will be celebrating St Andrew's Day today.
10.11.2022 - 21:27 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A couple who arrived in the UK after fleeing Ukraine are set to return to the war-torn country because of the ongoing cost of living crisis in Britain. Joe Place, 29, and his wife, 34-year-old Irina, were forced to leave their home in Kyiv after Russia launched its invasion in February, the Mirror reports.
The couple then travelled to Joe's hometown of Sheffield, Yorkshire, but were met with "terrible" housing and skyrocketing living costs. Irina, who received a Ukraine Family Scheme visa, and her husband tried for seven months to make life in the UK work, but have now decided to return to Ukraine - despite the country still being at war.
Joe, a PhD student and content writer, said: "This comes to the problem that everyone in the UK seems to be facing with finding (a rental). We doubled our budget and more … we had a very strict list of requirements and we just kept going, 'OK, well, compromise on this, compromise on this, compromise on this'.
"Anything we came even remotely close to getting was just terrible."
The couple had travelled back to Western Ukraine to visit family in September, but decided not to return to the UK due to housing issues. Joe added: "We realised we actually quite like it back here, and we're OK. We wouldn't want to live back in Kyiv right now because it's not safe, but where we are it is very safe, mostly anyway."
He added that because Russian forces have been targeting Ukrainian infrastructure in missile strikes, they know they might face electricity and heating outages. He added: "They're trying to get people to get prepared that you might lose the electricity and heating for a bit. That is something that is going to affect all of us, and that's going to be difficult"
The couple, who first met
Millions of Scottish people will be celebrating St Andrew's Day today.
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