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I'm coming up to ten years now. It's been good, overall, if it hadn't been for midlife crisis, depression and the likes, which has seen my social circle whittle down more and more. These days, while knowing lots of people in the greater cycling community etc, I feel increasing longing for the deep connections I had in my 20s even, before I left Germany, but that's all on the other side of the globe, literally. As you said, you just get on with it.
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So two weeks ago was the sixth anniversary of our arrival in Oz... That sounds like a long time ago tho' it doesn't feel that long ago...
Two years ago I may have said it's all been a terrible mistake but now I definitely feel we made the right choice. If everything that's happened while we've been here happened in London it would've fucked us up royally, as it is things have turned out pretty great... Bought a beautiful little house, interesting and rewarding job, great lifestyle and weather, etc...
Covid put the kybosh on seeing the few friends I have last year but now we're out the other side I'm not sure I'm that bothered about rectifying that situation TBH... I'm enjoying being a homebody...
I really miss my family and I really miss my mates back in London (and the rest of the world, so many friends have scattered around the globe in the last six years), that's the toughest part to deal with... You'll never get that easy, local thing with your mates back, that's the real heartbreaker...
But you just move on and you get on with it, that's life... It'll all be over soon enough...