"We were really happy in Sydney, we had great friends, attended a great church, the girls were in a great private school and we had built and were living in our dream home. We also had our own business that had been successfully established in Sydney for 14 years. Friends of ours had moved to Outback Queensland a number of years before and we had planned on going to visit them for the 2003 April school holidays. It was in the planning of this holiday that we believed that instead of just visiting Longreach, we should just move there. Whilst life was good in Sydney we wanted to use an opportunity to make a difference. Prior to leaving for our holiday/new home we put our house and business on the market. We visited our friends in Longreach for two weeks in April 2003 and couldn’t wait until we could move permanently, we just loved it. Our house sold whilst we were away and our business sold shortly afterward. By July 2003 we were living in Longreach."

Boris is from a small town in northwest Germany. He travelled to Australia twice as a tourist before arriving three years ago on a Working Holiday Maker visa. After two years working in Brisbane, including a five-month stint in town planning for the Brisbane City Council where he wrote his thesis on the ‘Economic Analysis of Urban Consolidation in Brisbane’, he started work as the Finance Officer for the Barcoo Shire, based in Jundah.

Boris was attracted to Australia and the Central West for the wide-open spaces and friendly people. He enjoys his life in Jundah and work is busy and interesting. This new adventure is different to anything Boris has experienced in the past.