Seriously! Nice to see you back here. Yeah, you locked down in Sydney ... just like Martin! You're probably 5.5km from each other, so you can never meet.
Ah, yeah, doing alright here. I moved to Lisbon 3+ years ago. San Francisco was getting way too douchy and transactional, and I needed to experience some new perspectives. And then the US was kinda doing its Trump meltdown thing. But that was less about getting out of that and more about enjoying what's here. I don't know if it's forever, but who ever does? It just works for right now... and fits my lifestyle and with cool people.
Other than that, same old same old really. Working in tech stuff. Sticking my nose more into social events and festivals (more opportunities here than I found in the US to do that). And we had a good 2020 with COVID, got our asses handed to us in Jan 2021 (partly because we were on the forefront of Delta), but things have been a co-existing chill since then.
Don't do anything crazy, but people are socializing with healthy boundaries and practices... and the numbers are going down. We also have more Bill Gates microchips per capita in our bloodstream than 99% of the world's countries, so that helps. It's like a nation of junkies here.