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Dec 28, 2022Liked by Paul Adams

This will certainly be worth reading. And for what it's worth, I always thought growing up in Winnipeg was a recipe for wanting to travel, because you have to if you want to see anywhere else.

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That’s funny. I have never felt so isolated as on the northwest coast of the South Island of NZ, where our “bach” overlooked the sea and we didn’t see so much as a rowboat for several days. I do think growing up in relatively isolated places forces on you a starkly binary choice to stay or to go when you are young. Even when kids go to university around here in Ottawa, they move away two three hours down the road. From Winnipeg, if you went away it was to Calgary, 15 hours away or more likely Toronto, 24 hours by car and further by train. There’s a big difference.

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Winnipeg is certainly isolated but Australia beats it. Eight hours of flying north-west from Sydney will get you to - the edge of the Australian continent. Growing up here drove my desire to travel and live abroad, which I did for 40 of my 66 years. But like most Australians who travel, I just had to come home again.

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