I struggle with the continual whinging about not being able to holiday overseas (whilst I do get the valid complaints about not being able to visit relatives). With the rider that I've been fortunate enough to be able to come back to Australia and take a "holiday" there in amongst WFH (even though the only two planned holidays when there ... going interstate from Melbourne in July and a mere weekend in Sydney after exiting quarantine late December were both nixed
) I really appreciated what Victoria has to offer, even Melbourne, and OK whilst there's no good resorts, I'd say South Melbourne beach on a warm summers day, is generally nicer to swim in than Nusa Dua, Jimbaran or Kuta. The lack of rubbish washing up on shore has a certain appeal.
By contrast, many colleagues have been stuck here on this island city of Singapore for a year now. It is 728 sq km which is really just 100 sq km repeated 7 times over, which can be boring for a couple of months let alone a whole year. So some of them are truly suffering island fever. Despite that one always try to make the best of what one has ..