Pollyana

Getting your head around the sheer size of the country, the States and the cities is not always easy when you start out on the emigration road, and BE is here to help people not hinder them. Your idea of comparing the scale here is great - but why ruin it with the sarcastic comments?

Pollyana

Indeed. Many Aussies refer to the entire area as Brisbane - I work with people who are Brisbane born and bred who talk about the area around North Lakes as being part of Brisbane so what hope is there for those people starting out?!!

Jensanco

Thank you both.
Apologies for the outburst - moving house frustrations maybe?
I was looking for help in understanding the difference between Brisbane suburbs and those that come under a different name.
The majority of you have been gracious enough to be patient and helpful and I want you to know it is appreciated.
I appreciate perhaps this is a question that comes up in a variety of descriptions maybe but we want to get to know as much as we can about the country and state we'll soon be living in, my questions may not always be well worded but their intention isn't to offend or upset anyone - only to learn more.

Should a student be chastised for not knowing all the answers at the start of a new subject?

asprilla

Hi there jensanco - Let us know roughly what your budget is for renting/buying a house. Also let us know what suburb you/ your husband will be working in.

That way, the folks on BE can give you some great info on where you should be looking to rent.

cheers

KJCherokee

The confusion arises because Brisbane metropolitan area has been under one council for decades, and so the boundaries of what is "Brisbane" are well defined. However in all the other capital cities the area that is actually 'Sydney', 'Melbourne', 'Adelaide', etc is relatively small with the result that the whole metropolitan area is known by the same name as the small central bit - think of it like London where the name strictly only applies to the City but is generally used to refer to the entire Greater London area.

So exactly where 'Adelaide' or 'Melbourne' extends to is not clear in terms of suburbs, but which suburbs constitute Brisbane and which don't is definitive. Postally Brisbane is just the 4000 post code, just as Sydney is 2000.

sassie

How can Ormeau which comes under Gold Coast City Council jurisdiction be part of Brisbane???

robert cowan

I bet you feel very good about your self with that don't you. you have been so heplfull NOT. you need to take a good hard look at yourself.
:thumb down:

Jensanco

Asprilla I'd love to.
We were actually destined for Melbourne for a job but having sold the house we contacted the company hubby would be working for to say we'd sold and would be starting to make arrangements to get out there and did they have an exact date they'd like hubby to start and they replied saying they'd already given the job they'd said would be his on arrival to someone else - was a bit upset as they could have at least emailed to tell us!

Hubby has two possible positions just South of Brisbane? One at Yatala and one in Richlands, but we don't know if we'll find out before we get out there if he has managed to get one or neither of them :$. Not the best situation to be in really but there you go. Hubby is happy to do any job until he can get a position in his area of work but picking up just any job in the UK isn't easy so not sure about Australia.


With an uncertain job position we really don't want to pay more than about $450 per week for a rental, we have 4 children but don't have a problem with 2 of them sharing at least initially so a 4 bed min would be great, don't want an acreage or anything but enough room for the little two to play in the garden would be good.
I know the potential jobs are south of Brisbane but I'm leaning more to the North, I did look up a few schools in the Gold Coast??? area and was shocked really by the reviews for around half of the schools I looked into with comments like the school having serious bullying problems, and the worst one being that there was problems with knives being taken into school :$ and these would have been fairly good commute if hubby were to get the job in Yatala. He would be working shift work for either so perhaps traffic would be less of a problem. ( I appreciate it's only a handful but they would have been the places we'd be looking at commute wise to Yatala that would be a walk to school for the kids.

I'm not daft I know there can be a few louts even in the nice areas, but we'd prefer to live somewhere that is on the whole, family friendly, good infrastructure, we want to manage with one car if possible so having shops, generally good schools, parks, drs, pharmacy etc all in one area would be ideal.
I quite like the look of the North Lakes area but obviously I need to be realistic hubby wants to avoid an hours commute if he can

Jen

fish.01

It is confusing because when referring to a city some people think it refers to the city council area, eg Brisbane City Council, when in most official cases the term Brisbane refers to the metro area which is far larger.

Melbourne and Sydney have exactly the same issue but this is mistaken in Brisbane more because the Brisbane City Council includes more suburbs than the Melbourne or Sydney City Councils so it is more obvious in those cities. Brisbane is no different to these cities in that regard.

So unless someone is specifically referring to the Brisbane City Council area, officially the term Brisbane refers to the Brisbane metro area which includes all of the council area's in Kim's link:

Brisbane City Council
Ipswich City Council
Logan City Council
Moreton Bay Regional Council
Redland City Council
Scenic Rim (part)

This means that the Redlands is in Brisbane and so is North Lakes, just not part of the Brisbane City Council.

bingobob777

It can't, that's my whole point

bingobob777

Yeh I felt a bit guilty hence my subsequent post containing a link to a realestate search for all rental properties in the greater Brisbane region.

You otherwise have contributed a dig at me without actually providing any help, thanks for that.

bingobob777

Seriously do not move to North Lakes if your husband is going to work in Yatala or Richlands.

sassie

Ok, I must have misinterpreted your quote:

"North Lakes and Ormeau are part of Brisbane"

bingobob777

yeh you did, what I said was

North Lakes and Ormeau are part of Brisbane the same way Stockport and Macclesfield are part of Manchester.

Do you consider Macclesfield part of Manchester?

fish.01

North Lakes is part of Brisbane, Ormeau isn't.