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Nikol Moses felt the itch to head somewhere new.
The pandemic made her a little stir-crazy, so two years ago, she decided to take the plunge and move from her native Melbourne to Brisbane — a two-hour flight down Australia's west coast. Self-described as both social and talkative, the now-22-year-old figured it'd be relatively easy to make new friends.
"Plot twist: I didn't. I spent probably nine months in Brisbane completely alone," Moses told me.