What a great journey you have here, @exyle! Posts like this inject more confidence into whoever has decided to stay here and thrive.
Very inspiring, congrats!
I'm on my way to get to Australia (it's a big challenge, because I'm from Brazil) and I have a lot to thank Steem / Steemit (as well as all the users who support me so far). It has been a crazy and exciting ride, haha!
So, I've also wrote a post... Here is the link in case you want to read it: