A series of interesting events and conversations has lead Adam and I to decide we’re moving back to Melbourne at extremely short notice. Like, less than a month short notice. Why did we just move back to Sydney again?
There’s a number of reasons for the pending return to Melbourne, mostly job-related for Adam, and also the fact that we can actually afford real estate in Melbourne which isn’t the size of your average fucked up anywhere-within-50km-radius-of-Sydney-CBD “living cube”. I mean, Sydney’s morphing into one of the expensive places in the world to buy a house, and we can only pretend to be a true “world city” at best.
This is probably where I choke back on my words about Melbourne’s weather… but in all honesty, Sydney’s stifling humidity is becoming far worse than Melbourne’s endless winter rain. Global warming in Melbourne, bring it on! But after careful consideration… there’s a lot of great reasons for us to live in Melbourne over Sydney. Most of our closest mates are down there, you can actually see gigs within a local distance of your place on any night of the week, the gays are far saner, friendlier, and don’t have any equivalent of Oxford Street to scream around; everything’s more affordable, my family’s down there, I can see Cats matches live every fortnight rather than once or twice a year… it all just feels right.
There used to be a lot of internal undecided Melbourne vs Sydney in my head, but as you can see… I’ve pretty much firmed this up now.
So – the plan is to rent in Melbourne’s CBD for a little while, then go for a mortgage and (gasp) … buy a house. The thought’s crazy.
And how rad is this – I’ve let my bosses know that I’m moving to Melbourne, and gave them four weeks notice… but they’ve managed to work out a role working from home for me. Brilliant.
The great thing about working from home is that it’ll free up the 3 hours I currently spend commuting to and from work each day (telecommuting interstate tends to… cut this down quite a bit). This will be the year that the Metal All-Homo-Star band comes one step closer to actuality… one of the first things I do in Melbourne will be to finally get my bass and start lessons.
Sydney will never be too far away, either… I’ll be flying up to our Sydney office every two months so will still have plenty of chances to catch up with my Sydney mates.
I really was feeling a bit meh about how this year was panning out, but now everything’s happening. See you soon, Melbourne! See you soon, actual blog entries of substantial content!