Quality of life in Australia

If you have emigrated to Australia from the UK, you have no doubt balanced a lot of factors: family, work, and friends, to name a few.

One of the things that makes the transition to Australia so appealing in my opinion is the positive lifestyle and therefore an improved quality of life.

Depending on where you have chosen to live, life may well be as fast paced as where you came from – it is certainly not the case that life is slower in Australia – but there is definitely a different vibe. And that is quite hard to quantify, after all an attractive prospect is a subjective thing.

It could be as simple as the weather – the blue skies and more sunshine.

I suppose with an abundance of warmer days and more sun – and none of us should belittle the positive effects of Vitamin D and how it makes us feel – there are many other things that slot into place.

Being more social, getting out and about more, visiting new places and making the time for pursuits that perhaps you didn’t make time for when you lived in the UK.

From my own experience, I certainly made time for many more weekend trips and short getaways than I do here in London. One of my favourite trips was a few hours out of Sydney up the coast to a friend’s house in Salamander Bay.

Circling back to the weather, I don’t know if this is a reasonable explanation, but comparing London and Sydney – two of my favourite cities in the world – I would say the sky feels more “open” or higher in Sydney and that makes a huge difference to me, and I have experienced cloudy days in Australia – but they are not as oppressive as they are in the UK.

The reality is that we all consider different things when we look for a positive lifestyle and what constitutes a good quality of life – it is exactly that balancing act that results in us all choosing different places to live. But I have a soft spot for Australia because it really does have so many different aspects that make it a wonderful place to live…

words by Parry Ray

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