Last Saturday night I asked Christina to marry me and she said YES! 
We are very excited and looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together.
Now everyone wants to hear the story about how I proposed etc, so here it is….
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I have been living in Canberra for a little over a year now and every time I head back to Sydney and catch up with friends I’m always asked something along the lines of “so are you surviving Canberra” almost as if I’m inflicted with some terrible terminal disease! This is just an extension of the comments I got prior to moving here, some of which included:
“Canberra is full of politicans and public servants - how boring!”
“Canberra has no night life and there is nothing to do!”
“Canberra is such a hole!”
“Canberra - why on Earth would you want to go there!”
Well, in 14 months I am yet to meet a politican here, thankfully, and the closest I have come is seeing the Chief of Army’s car drive down my street complete with ARMY 1 number plates. As far as night life is concerned I have been to more pubs in Canberra than I ever went to in Sydney and I can confidently say that if I wanted to I would have at least two invitations to do things every night of the week. Yes, geographically, Canberra is a hole - a beautiful valley just east of the magnificent Brindabella ranges. And why would I want to move here? Well, there were lots of reasons but I think the following article from the Sydney Morning Herald sums a lot of it up…
A Capital Idea For Getting Out Of The Rat Race
by Kerry Palmer - March 23, 2007
“WHAT do you think about moving to Canberra?” my husband asked. I looked at him as if someone had died.” Yeah, right. Over my dead body.”