Why Australia?

Recently, I have been asked a few times why I chose to move to Australia. I don't have an exact answer, but let's make a couple steps back to last June.
It was one of the first warm and sunny days of an early summer, it was a great Sunday and I was biking and wandering around Milan with a friend.
While taking a picture of the Duomo with my iPhone, I also gave a look at the "Milano CS Group", and saw the post of a couch-surfer who proposed a meeting at Park Sempione. I decided to join him and that is how I met Luca Panzarella, startupper and internet creative; and I got impressed by his definition of "location independent".

Duomo - Milan, Italy

Last August I took some days off for a short journey around Europe. I would have never thought it was going to be such a stimulating experience.
I was surfing a couch in Brussels, Belgium, and met Bert who inspired me with his job. He works as a lawyer and is not required to be at the office: he can work from anywhere, he just needs a computer connected to the internet.
Afterwards, I was surfing at Daniel's, in the heart of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. He started a promising project for a magazine in literature, with a dutch version of kick-starter and raised half of the desired funds in just one week.
A few days after, in Copenhagen, Denmark, I randomly met up with an old friend who embarked on his own start-up, Evertale, and told me more about it at his new office.

Chilling in Ørstedsparken - Copenhagen, Danmark

Once back to work in Milan, despite the fact that my team and me started developing a new project and took lots of resources also from my free time, I went for a beer at the Irish pub just beneath my place. That night I met Mathieu from Canada. A software engineer, location independent, world traveller, and a couch-surfer like me as well.
He started his own company of web design and mobile developing, Avant-Garde, with collaborators from all around the world, and he is constantly attending IT conferences here and there to meet new people and perhaps future business partners.

This post doesn't quite explain why I quit my job and am now heading to Australia with a one-way ticket, but it tells a little bit of what is swirling through my head at the moment. I am looking for a brand new exciting experience and am seeking for seeing things from another point of view.