It is my dream to one day move to the countryside. I hate living in a big city and find the air and noise pollution, lack of greenery and dreary faces of city-goers almost unbearable. I just want to live on a big property that is surrounded by nature and spend my days working in the garden, planting shrubs and flowers and being completely content.

I think my dream place to move to is Bright, Victoria, which is a truly stunning destination with a population much lower than Melbourne. There is more greenery in one square kilometre of Bright than there is in the whole of Melbourne. I’m sure of it. No amount of me going around Melbourne gardens and planting thornless roses will help either. Melbourne is doomed to be a grey jungle that never sparks joy in its residents. Bright, on the other hand, is just that – bright. It is filled with colours, colours that change as the seasons’ change. You should go to Bright in Autumn, just as the leaves start to change. The trees are bright red, orange and yellow. It looks so incredible when contrasted with the bright green grass. Grass thrives in Bright in Autumn and Spring because of the naturally cold climate. It then dies off in Summer as the temperature rises, but that’s when the trees get all their leaves back. Wow, it is truly a sight to behold.

I wonder if I’d be able to buy native seeds online and plant them in my suburban Melbourne apartment. I only have indoor plants as I don’t have any sort of outdoor area (which is feeding my burning desire to move to the countryside), but surely some of our native Australian plants can survive indoors. I’m not sure. I just hope that I can pick up my life sometime in the next few years and move far far away.