Why move to Australia?
Though we haven’t said it out loud to many people until recently, our move to Australia has been in the works for years (very fortunately, because it took two years to get my partner visa!). In that time, the people we have told often had questions about why I would want to move “so far away.”
The fact that Brendan is Australian is one very good reason: Australia is his home far more than the US is mine (I’ve spent about half my years living in other countries and don’t have a strong sense of anywhere as “home”).
We don’t particularly like where we are now. Life in the Bay Area manages to be both hectic and exhausting, and… boring. There’s not a lot to do in leisure time unless you are willing to spend hours in traffic to go somewhere, which never sounds appealing after a long workday/week.
Life in the Bay Area is also ridiculously expensive. We are currently paying $4600 a month in rent – yes, on a very nice house, but it’s not in a top school district. (It would cost around $1.5 million to buy this house.)
