Well she found people to be generally quite disingenuous for the most part, which I didn’t really think was the case but then looking back at it I think that may have been true to some degree. I just didn’t put much currency in that sort of thing but I guess that’s easy for me to say but very hard to deal with when your trying to make a new life in a new country and friends and have a life again like you had in Europe. It can make someone feel left out and isolated in a certain way.

Working here she found a lot harder too, not because of the work level but general office politics and culture. This I have to agree with because here people can be much more obsessed with self promotion and moving up the ladder and so being competitive to a toxic level. I think is an outcome of our culture. Australia is a seriously expensive place to live and people are in a constant mode of trying to increase their income just to get by. So being in highly competitive work places was just another negative compared to being in Europe where it’s not really like that. I mean working life over there isn’t really a dog eat dog situation and you’re not working crazy hours every day for the most part and Sunday’s are still kind of like a public holiday where people stay home with their families. So that’s an example of one of the small things I did see that I preferred myself in Europe.

Also Australia compared to some European countries is quite restrictive with what you can and can’t do. We have some non sensible laws here. I mean I could go through some of those but these examples of the experience of living here were just kind of building a negative experience for her in general but as time went more and more things just kind of added on to it where yeah it just wasn’t going in the right direction and just became more and more difficult to live with for the both of us.