Living on the same street 20000km from our home town
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Hi,
I have migrated from Eastern Europe to Australia in the 90s after graduating from Uni.
A few years after i settled in Sydney my Mum came to visit me for a few months stay. She told me about a lovely family she met on the train while visiting a neighboring country before coming to Sydney in order to obtain her Australian Tourist visa. The family were getting their permanent residence visa to migrate to Australia.
During my Mother's visit I met by chance my new neighbors from the same background living one block away from my place. It turned out they are not only the lovely family my Mother met on train to the Australian Embassy but this was actually my Sociology Professor from my home town University. He has migrated to Sydney a few years after me and had settled down on the same street in the 4 million city of Sydney.
What are the chances of that?...
Of course we befriended the family and keep in touch to this day.
Date submitted:Tue, 05 Aug 2014 10:31:28 +0000Coincidence ID:7694
