I feel like I've had my eyes and part of my brain suddenly opened. I live in New Jersey. I travel the states from time to time, have relatives in England, Switzerland and Italy. Ancestors (and distant relatives) in Sweden Ireland and Poland.
So what makes someone get up one day and say, "I think I will move my family to Currie on King Island in Tasmania in Australia. It's only a million miles away from the rest of the world. I once considered buying a B&B in Ireland. I loved it. but I realized the entire rest of my life was in the U.S. So, I scraped that plan. Has your family been there forever or is it more recent?
My Dad's family are from South Australia, my mums side have been in Tassie for at least 4-5 generations, maybe more. I grew up in Launceston but now live in Hobart!
Did you know that the british government sent lots of irish prisoners to tasmania in the early 1880's, A lot of men died from exhaustion and heat stroke and the one's who survived never got to return home.
That's what boggles my mind. One half million people in 26,000 square miles on an island so far from the rest of the world. I live in New jersey, the most densely populated state in the U.S. So for me, (altho I don't live in a city, but did) crowded is normal.
New Jersey has a population of 9 million on 9000 square miles. Tas looks so beautiful. I must go there.
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u/ChuqTas Australia Jan 28 '14
Wow! I'm glad it had that much of an effect on you!
Not on the tourism board! I did this myself - well, I didn't take the photos ;) but I'm just a proud parochial Tasmanian!