I live in the UK and my parents are in Australia. It's hard to care for them as they age, but I'm not uprooting my family.

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I grew up in a small sugarcane farming community in rural northern Australia. It's the kind of place where there are more cane toads and crocodiles than people. My teenage years were spent fantasizing about escaping the quiet humdrum town where nothing happened, for an exciting life in a big city where you could go out every night of the week. World travel was also high on my agenda.