Acey83's blog post - Your Blog has been viewed: 1259 times.

Uh... I don't remember being that popular. Ever. Nice stat though, maybe someone is looking out for me? Psssh, dreams are free, I suppose.

Anyway, I'm moving. Leaving the country. Permanently. And planning to set up camp in Sydney, Australia, where I have a great bunch of friends that have already made heaps of offers to help me settle in and find employment and adapt to the 30C temperatures they have there regularly. Hopefully this will be an important first step in my plan to take over the world.

It's not that I dislike where I am, with the exception of my work, which I do desperately want to escape. To begin with, my World Tour of North America (see below) reinvigorated my love of travel and adventure, and I wish I could still be freelancing around Canada and the US with a truckload of money to spend. It was one of the greatest and most memorable experiences of my life so far, and what gave me the most satisfaction when all was said and done is that I afforded it all through my own hard work.

But more importantly, with my degree in music unusable in my adopted home (there's simply no work here in little ol' New Zealand for people like me), I feel the time is right for me to uproot and forge my own path to my dream lifestyle. Something, anything that involves the music biz has got to be a step in the right direction, and with music industry jobs listed daily online and no additional visa requirements for me to migrate, Australia is very much the land of milk and honey as it appears from this side of the Tasman. It's time to go on a new adventure, and hey, if all else fails, I'll always have my friends and family back here.

I wonder: if you're reading this and you have the vaguest memory of me from when I used to be more involved with the site, perhaps you could comment and say hello? It's been so long since I've been on that I don't know who's still here and who isn't. Oh, but don't let that stop you commenting if I look like the type of person you might like to chat with. I'm still interested in meeting new NNers, even if I'm distracted by reality most of the time. *sigh*

Hope you are all keeping well. Love to all my friends on here!

Alex
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