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As Heather Cohen tells her story, she went to Tasmania to buy property and ended up with an 1885 cottage in her home town of Glen Innes in the NSW New England region. But then again, Heather has never been one to take the obvious route. “It was a lovely adventure,” she recalls. “I’d been talking about moving for years, but when I got there, I had an overwhelming sense that I’d feel locked on an island. I rang a real estate agent at home and told him I wanted to make an offer on a property I’d seen before I left. But who knows, I might never

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