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Phew! I'm glad it has picked up for you.
The contrast between the life in England and the life in Australia, particularly for the convicts who came to Sydney in the early days, is quite stark. I married into the criminal classes (!), as my husband is descended from a number of convicts, the earliest of whom arrived in Sydney in 1798. He married, had three children, each of whom produced 13 children, almost all of whom survived to adulthood. That is a pretty unlikely scenario in late 18th/early 19th century London.
It was a much healthier place to live, and there was just so much more opportunity here ... but of course at a terrible cost, as will be shown.
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