We want to slip the net and open a cheese shop, or join a polyamorous collective, or throw all our money at bitcoin – but should we?
At the end of 2020, when Melburnians thought the worst of lockdowns were behind us — LOL! — my partner and I held an end-of-days prepping session with two friends at a taqueria in Brunswick.
It started out as a casual summer catch-up, but by the time we had hit the fourth margarita, our fears of another pandemic were rising like the oceans, and we decided we would buy some land on Tasmania’s King Island and ride out the next disaster from there. We started scouring property sites and committed to pooling our joint savings for a coastal plot.
