This may seem weird, but recently I’ve been thinking a lot about being an Australian living in the USA. As I get older the call of my homeland gets louder. I wonder if one day I will do something about that?
At any rate, I became curious as to where I had spent most of my life… so I did some calculation.
I’ve lived for approximately 15115 days, and have been in America since May 1993, or over 20 years. However, I decided to count travel destinations as well and this is what I came up with:
Yep, about 7300 of those days have been spent in Australia, versus only about 7100 in the USA. If it weren’t for the first year-and-a-half of my life being spent in The Fatherland, Australia would be well in the lead. If I didn’t count vacations (a total of about 33 weeks spent outside of the US since I moved here) then the US would be in the lead.
Using my system – and accounting for an upcoming Canadian vacation and Australia (again!) in the new year – sometime next February the US will surpass Australia as the country in which I have lived more of my days. I guess I’ll have mixed feelings when that day happens.
I’m not so sure we were in Germany for more than six months.
I’ve got another 20 years before I’ll have been in the USA longer than Australia. That might not ever happen!
Yeah I was skeptical, but my source (cough, dad, cough) said 20 months! That was wrong though, and we were only in Germany 6 months, which means I have about 15 months to go before I’ve been in the US longest!