My friends are moving to Australia, which, as Suzy put it, in geographical terms is the same as moving to space. More and more, emigration is a midlife decision. Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty
Last Saturday I drove to Wicklow, to the house our friends Suzy and Danny bought after the pandemic, when we had given up hope of all living in the same neighbourhood in Dublin. This weekend they will move again. The boxes were packed, ready to be shipped on a pallet down the Suez Canal to meet them in their new home in Australia.
At their going-away drinks, I watched them have the same conversations again and again about packing and logistics, about what they’ll miss most and what they won’t. “What’s hardest,” Suzy said, staring into one of the fishbowl gin and tonics we were drinking, “is that your friendships won’t grow from here.
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