My dream of moving to the country is real - and will happen once almost all of my circumstances change | Emily Mulligan

I can't help but yearn for the green rolling hills of a totally theoretical farm life

Living in the city is a rip off. Tolls, housing costs, mould, crowds, construction noise. Parking for a day can cost $60. Getting from place to place should not be this frustrating and expensive. Each time I remember it, I am radicalised anew.

All of it, sometimes every day, spurs my long-held and worryingly sincere view. That I should move to the country.

Emily Mulligan is a mum, aunty and occasional writer, begrudgingly from Sydney