A healthcare worker who ditched Sydney for Alice Springs has doubled her income, found love and bought a house, planning to never return to the city.
Midwife Tylah McConnell, 27, only planned to go bush for a six-month secondment in April last year but quickly realised she had found home.
“I think you get old this lie in Sydney that that’s where all the opportunities are and country life or rural living is boring when I couldn’t actually find it further from the truth,” Ms McConnell, who is also a content creator, recently told her 131,700 followers on TikTok.
“My social life is significantly better living rurally and remotely than it was in Sydney.”
Ms McConnell explained she had found the love of her life in a doctor and bought a house with him within six months, which was something she thought was going to be impossible in Sydney.
As for her career, she says she was able to progress much faster working rurally.
“I just got amazing career opportunities. I’m pretty much at a place where I’ve doubled my income actually leaving Sydney,” she said.
Ms McConnell told Daily Mail the house she bought with her partner was a three-bedroom and she “didn’t even have to use a third of the deposit” she had saved in Sydney.
The healthcare worker didn’t know much about Alice Springs before she moved and was surprised to find it was quite liberal.
“It’s fantastic for LGBTQ+ rights. The town I’m in actually has the largest lesbian population per capita in Australia,” she said.
While Ms McConnell encourages her social media followers in healthcare to move bush, she does admit it still comes with challenges.
One of those being how expensive it is to fly back to Sydney to visit family and friends. She said there is also not same availability of fresh produce when it comes to food.