Latest Go Hard or Go Home

• FOMO: The latest epidemic

  GO HARD OR GO HOME | I’ve been living with an undiagnosed condition since I moved to London 18 months ago. This largely unheard of illness has affected most aspects of my world – from my social life and work, to my bank balance and my sleep.

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• I need to find that just-arrived-in-London glow again

  

  GO HARD OR GO HOME | I’ve reached the point where the little things I once loved about London no longer make my heart skip. I need them back.

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• Who says British cuisine is dull?

  GO HARD OR GO HOME: It’s taken me a while but I’ve finally started to incorporate some staple British foods into my daily diet.

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• Give me some freakin’ space, man

  GO HARD OR GO HOME: I once read in a London travel guide that it’s not uncommon for city-dwellers to sit one seat apart on trains or to move away from each other as soon as space becomes available.

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• Breaking up is hard to do, especially with yourself

  GO HARD OR GO HOME: Sometimes I feel like I am leading a double life. One half of me lives here in London, while the other is in another time zone, far, far away in Australia.

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• A train of thought to ponder

  GO HARD OR GO HOME: Over Easter I embarked on my first ever ride on the god of rail, the Eurostar. Being able to simply jump on a train, go under water and pop up in a different country is something I, like many Aussie expats, find mind-blowing.

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• Go Hard or Go Home: Finding the perfect London digs

  House-hunting is the third most difficult part of life in London. As I am about to move into my fifth house in less than 18 months, I reckon I have more than enough experience to make that call.

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• Go Hard or Go Home: A very sunny disposition

  In the past year or so I’ve met my fair share of stereotypically conservative, whingeing, grumpy Brits. You know the ones.

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• Go hard or go home: The hostess with the mostess

  Whenever friends from Australia come to visit I put huge pressure on myself to give them the best London experience ever.

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• Go hard or go home: Murphy’s law

  GO HARD OR GO HOME: Just before Christmas I remember saying to a friend: “Life is really perfect right now. It’s really weird, everything is just going really well.” I should’ve known better.

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• Turning Wine Into Water

  GO HARD OR GO HOME: I recently met a guy in his 20s who doesn’t drink alcohol – no beer, no wine – nothing. Shocking, I know! Let’s call him Joe.

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• The homesick waves start rolling in

  GO HARD OR GO HOME: You can be happily cruising along, enjoying the best that summertime in London has to offer, and then out of nowhere… BAM!

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• Reignite a long lost romance

  GO HARD OR GO HOME: There’s a big secret among Londoners that few of us are willing to admit – deep down, we all love the Tube.

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• It’s tough to score that job

  GO HARD OR GO HOME: I’m not ready to make that 24-hour flight back to Oz just yet so I knew I had to find something … anything, because unemployment and London just don’t mix.

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• I’d never heard this word Antipodean before

  GO HARD OR GO HOME | The Collin’s Online Dictionary defines Antipodean as people or things that come from or relate to Australia or New Zealand. Well yeah, that’s me! But I didn’t want to live with them.

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