LEAVING LONDON So we chucked in our jobs, gave up our nice rented flat in London, took a risk and moved to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia! I’d been working for a non-profit in London as a caseworker for refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants (many from East Africa). It wasn’t that we had bad jobs back in London, but we just figured that one day we would wake up 10 years from now and realise we had just lived 3650 Groundhog days. We figured we better go for it now; before we had the rug rats, the mortgage and all those things that help create home but at the same time tie you down and leave you wondering ‘what if’? We’d heard such wonderful things about Ethiopia and I’d worked with many clients from the region (yes,
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