I’ve been lucky enough to travel a lot in my life, but I choose to live less than 20 miles from where I was born – so it must be good 😉
Ive thought long and hard about upping sticks – I don’t like anywhere else in the UK enough to leave Cardiff, it’s got the right mix of city for work opportunities and country for the sort of lifestyle I want, I’m not saying it’s better than other places with the same sort of mix, but it’s already home and nothing else is so much better I’d move.
I loved my time in Oz, but once it stopped being a holiday and I started to ‘live’ there it lost some shine – Sydney is great to look at, but like other big business and financial hubs it’s a highly competitive, ruthless environment and stupidly expensive to live – once you get out of the city and into the burbs it’s less stunning and like anywhere else really – plus despite what it looks like on Telly Sydney and Melbourne are miserable, drizzly places all winter. Out of the main cities there’s almost no work for someone like me.
Canada was amazing, but Vancouver is just as ‘big city’ as Sydney and London for that matter, but even more expensive and more cold and miserable all winter and like Oz to get a visa is hard and expensive.
Both my Wife and I would love to move to France, we both love the lifestyle, we actually like all the ‘daft’ things they do like close for hours in the middle of the day and all day Sunday, it shows itself as a place where you don’t have to be ashamed the say I live to work, not work to live – but, we both speak enough French to get by, we’d starve waiting to learn it well enough to work there.