Want to hear a funny joke? Home ownership. With UK price inflation expected to rise at twice the rate of wages in 2022, one serial migrator explores how changing countries can open doors.
. It was 2014; my eligibility to scrape under the age limit of an Australian Working Holiday Visa was decreasing daily, while my desire to live near Hemsworth lookalikes was not. So, I did what anyone who hatches life plans over a tray of tequila shots would do: I quit the job I loved but had outgrown and moved to Sydney as a homeless and jobless 31-year-old. As a gamble, it was like throwing everything on black and hoping it worked out.
In truth, I made it work out. Free from peers’ expectations of what I “should” be doing with my life, I returned to the UK two years later having cold-networked my way to a solid freelance writing career, bagging an epicIt took all of about six months of UK life to feel The Itch – that unsettling mental tickle – again. This time, I wasn’t yearning to go somewhere specific, like I had with Sydney.
I was renting a one-bedroom flat chosen for the USP of being the best of a load of duds. On my journalist’s salary and pocket-money-sized savings there wasn’t a chance in hell of being able to buy a place. Pooling resources with my partner – who grafted double-digit-hour days in management consulting – meant we could try, but it felt reckless not comforting. Estate agents were flaky or predatory; flats were crumbling physically but asking prices seemed to fortify while we slept.
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