If the Australian dream is owning a home in the suburbs, is it possible to find happiness without an address of your own? Sarah Tarca left her old life behind to find out
THE BEGINNING OF THIS STORY reads like the blurb of a chick-lit novel: thirty-something magazine editor trades Louboutins for Birkenstocks and goes perma-travelling. But unlike that cliché story, there was no dramatic break-up or job crisis that inspired me to leave the life I knew behind. Instead, it was the fact my partner Phil and I couldn’t afford to buy a house where we wanted to in Sydney. There was the itch to travel, which I hadn’t done because I’d been too busy building my career. And the big one, the lack of work-life balance. I began to think this way of life was a little bit crazy, and maybe there was another way. So when Phil suggested we pack up everything and “just go travelling”, I said yes. This is not a story about a gap year – we always intended to work because we both had professional skills that could be adapted to a nomadic, freelance life. There was no reason why we shouldn’t try. So we did.
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