Goodbye #2:

So I promised my readership more goodbyes after Facebook. This one is a bit more substantive and has taken a bit more thought to compose. Glad you've made the journey into the wilderness to read it, so here goes...

Sorry Europe. It’s been fun, and thanks for all the fish, but it is time for this crazy Canadian to move on. After giving France the old “college try” (and being repeatedly kicked in the balls for my effort), then bouncing back to Austria only to be told that leaving the country had wiped out my residency, I find myself without a strong motivation or pathway to stay.

It’s a damn shame. Europe has given so much to me over the past 6 years. Fun, friends, memories and a few romances leading up to my lovely wife. A salary that resulted in a PhD and a publication in Science (some things money can’t buy). A postdoc with a much better salary and 2 months per year to roam. Amazing care and support during a fight with cancer that cost me a pittance.

I was mor...