ubdai

Does anyone know Katherine in the NT.

What are good areas and what are bad areas?

Is it better to be near the river or away from it due to the chance of future flooding.

tia

Dorothy

Don't know about the Katherine area, but just read your signature and wondered what Vetaccess is.

EvannTel

Is that really a helpful or necessary comment for a relatively new member - especially from a Mod?

Pollyana

I have to say I did wonder the same - I guess it means Vetassess but there are a lot of abbreviations around these days so it could easily be something else.


For the OP - flooding is an annual issue in Katherine, some years worse than others .Theres some info here -
http://nt.gov.au/nreta/water/surface...ruralmaps.html which might help for starters. Lots more info through links on Google. Not sure if we have any regular posters there, though there are a few up in Darwin.

Petals

My mum has been there many times so I will ask her when I pick her up this morning. They lived in Kununurra for many years just over the border in WA.

Dorothy

I'm not sure what's unhelpful or un-necessary about asking what something in the OP's signature was. Also, bear in mind that I'm a regular poster on here, not just a moderator, and am just as entitled to ask a question as anyone. If a particular post upsets you the report button is just to the right of the karma one.

Petals

Mum said the town is pretty flat but its craggy around there. Very hot place just like Kununurra. Large Aboriginal population as there is in most places in the north as there is a large reservation there so a lot of people probably work in Aboriginal Affairs.

You do have to like living in the outback to live in these places because they are very different and you have to like the heat and humidity in the summer. Winters are nice but that is only three to four months of the year the rest of the time its hot.

Incidentally my parents sold their lease and move to Melbourne when they retired.

Dorothy

I've always thought someplace like Kununurra sounded like a great place to live if you're looking for a bit of an adventure. Either before kids or after they're grown and moved out.

ubdai

Should have been 'Vetassess'. Fingers got crossed whilst typing.
All corrected now.

Dorothy

Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was a new skills authority or not. They change so often I can't keep up!!!

Good luck with your move to NT.

Petals

A lot of Americans lived up there when Mum and Dad lived there and I guess they still do. It was not so touristy then and you did not have to get tours to places like Hidden Valley. I did not live there I just visited and that was enough. In the wet its very very uncomfortable.

The stations are huge and they muster with helicopters.

renth

I've been there a couple of times. Why on earth would you want to move there?

upyerfud

I've been there once. Why on earth did you go twice?

Seriously, its a sh-thole. Last place I would consider staying in OZ.

Petals

I did not want to say what the previous two ops said but Mum said she would not like to live there.

calNgary

Try http://www.katherine.nt.gov.au/ i have been but like most it was a stop off to somewere else, an adventure for a holiday yes but dont no about living in or around katherine, but everyone is different good luck