About 15 months ago I left home for a promising year-long career of picking fruit in Australia. My friend Jon called me and said something to this effect: "Arthur, I'm stranded in Australia but it's ok because the money here is really good. You can make up to 200 dollars a day picking fruit." Sounds better than teaching English, so two weeks later I showed up in Sydney with no job, no friends (Jon, it turns out, had gone to Indonesia), and as much money as I could make at $9.50/hr teaching English. The thing about Sydney is that, like much of Australia, it's really not that different from the US. So my first impression was that I spent a lot of money and time - about 30 hours transit - to leave home, only to
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