Moving to Margate, Brisbane
Apr 24th 2010, 11:03 pm
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Moving to Margate, Brisbane
We are moving to the Margate/Redcliffe area in July of this year and wondered if anyone had any comments with regard to the area and tips to make the move easier (I can live in hope!) My 8 year old will be starting school as soon as we arrive and I will be looking for work as a Kindergarten Teacher/Childcare coordinator. Many thanks
Apr 25th 2010, 6:14 am
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
Nice safe beach in the area....
Redcliffe Beach
plus two more photos from a Real Estate agents site, Gateway Properties Redcliffe. Hope they don't mind me using them.
Redcliffe Beach
plus two more photos from a Real Estate agents site, Gateway Properties Redcliffe. Hope they don't mind me using them.
Apr 25th 2010, 9:29 am
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
Margate is nice, we lived in Redcliffe when we first moved out here and it is a nice place to live. It's not the Sunshine or Gold Coast, but has a nice family atmosphere and is a great place to live for young families. It is growing in popularity and developing into a nicer area. Public transportation links aren't great, but manageable.
Best website for looking for a job is www.seek.com.au and for schools, check out http://education.qld.gov.au/ and look at the parents section initially.
For kindergarten teaching, a couple of main providers in the area are C&K http://www.candk.asn.au/ and childcare centres are popular, a couple of main players are ABC Childcare http://www.childcare.com.au/ and Sesame Lane www.sesamelane.com.au
Good luck!
Best website for looking for a job is www.seek.com.au and for schools, check out http://education.qld.gov.au/ and look at the parents section initially.
For kindergarten teaching, a couple of main providers in the area are C&K http://www.candk.asn.au/ and childcare centres are popular, a couple of main players are ABC Childcare http://www.childcare.com.au/ and Sesame Lane www.sesamelane.com.au
Good luck!
Apr 27th 2010, 6:09 am
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
We are moving to the Margate/Redcliffe area in July of this year and wondered if anyone had any comments with regard to the area and tips to make the move easier (I can live in hope!) My 8 year old will be starting school as soon as we arrive and I will be looking for work as a Kindergarten Teacher/Childcare coordinator. Many thanks
I am moving to Redcliffe two weeks today, I am going out first to find a rental and stuff like that job, car etc then my wife and kids are coming out on June 8th.
Will have to keep in contact
Regards
Carl
Apr 27th 2010, 6:28 am
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Dear Carl
It would be really helpful to know how you get on, especially with the rental. I have been looking for an apartment to rent as well, but hopefully my husband will head over (we live in HK at the moment) in June to do a recce. Had to get a feel for a place over the internet.
Kathryn
It would be really helpful to know how you get on, especially with the rental. I have been looking for an apartment to rent as well, but hopefully my husband will head over (we live in HK at the moment) in June to do a recce. Had to get a feel for a place over the internet.
Kathryn
Apr 27th 2010, 8:01 am
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
We are moving to the Margate/Redcliffe area in July of this year and wondered if anyone had any comments with regard to the area and tips to make the move easier (I can live in hope!) My 8 year old will be starting school as soon as we arrive and I will be looking for work as a Kindergarten Teacher/Childcare coordinator. Many thanks
Apr 27th 2010, 10:19 pm
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
Before you get here unfortunatly but a few of us were going to have a meet up at the Belverdere at Woody Point which is on the Peninsula and definitley worth a visit for good drink and food... there's a link to the hotel on the meet thread: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=665339
. Anyone moving to the Woody Point area and surrounds will be laughing in a year or so. The new bridge to brisbane opens this year, all 6 lanes will be open 2011. And the redcliffe council is spending another 20 million on the main street. Huge development and money flowing in and you can still pick up houses cheap as chips.
Apr 27th 2010, 10:23 pm
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
I couldn't live there ... I'd be missing Bembom Brothers Amusement Park ...
Seriously, if I wasn't living here then I'd be living there
Seriously, if I wasn't living here then I'd be living there
Apr 27th 2010, 10:29 pm
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Apr 27th 2010, 10:34 pm
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
We had a house almost next door to that pub.
Anyone moving to the Woody Point area and surrounds will be laughing in a year or so. The new bridge to brisbane opens this year, all 6 lanes will be open 2011. And the redcliffe council is spending another 20 million on the main street. Huge development and money flowing in and you can still pick up houses cheap as chips.
. Anyone moving to the Woody Point area and surrounds will be laughing in a year or so. The new bridge to brisbane opens this year, all 6 lanes will be open 2011. And the redcliffe council is spending another 20 million on the main street. Huge development and money flowing in and you can still pick up houses cheap as chips.
The 20m refurb of the seafront is a bit of a controversial one locally. They did something similar a few years ago on the Margate high street and it has had zero positive impact on the area. Personally I think much more could be done with the seafront, for starters by closing down the pawn shops and Crazy Clark's and leasing the buildings to restaurants that already do really well on that front.
Apr 27th 2010, 11:13 pm
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
The bridge should be open before that. They recently announced they are about 4 months ahead of schedule. The new one will be open in May, but they are closing the old one for maintenance for a few months but they expect to have both up before the end of Nov at the moment. Either way, I really don't think it will change much. I've lived here for 6 years now and the bridge has rarely been the problem. The Gateway and lack of train link are the main problems if you are travelling into Brisbane (which I do daily).
The 20m refurb of the seafront is a bit of a controversial one locally. They did something similar a few years ago on the Margate high street and it has had zero positive impact on the area. Personally I think much more could be done with the seafront, for starters by closing down the pawn shops and Crazy Clark's and leasing the buildings to restaurants that already do really well on that front.
The 20m refurb of the seafront is a bit of a controversial one locally. They did something similar a few years ago on the Margate high street and it has had zero positive impact on the area. Personally I think much more could be done with the seafront, for starters by closing down the pawn shops and Crazy Clark's and leasing the buildings to restaurants that already do really well on that front.
November is good, think when we were there they were talking 2012!!
The gateway
is a problem for anyone trying to do north/south brisbane ( gateway bridge is nowhere near redcliffe for those reading in UK ). I did think there were going to be improved links from redcliffe to the airport north bris too, but bit out of touch with it all now. We always used to drive out, but there is a bus link over the bridge to the train station as an option but never used it.
Apr 28th 2010, 2:00 am
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Apr 28th 2010, 3:59 am
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
November is good, think when we were there they were talking 2012!!
The gateway is a problem for anyone trying to do north/south brisbane ( gateway bridge is nowhere near redcliffe for those reading in UK ). I did think there were going to be improved links from redcliffe to the airport north bris too, but bit out of touch with it all now.
We always used to drive out, but there is a bus link over the bridge to the train station as an option but never used it.
The gateway
is a problem for anyone trying to do north/south brisbane ( gateway bridge is nowhere near redcliffe for those reading in UK ). I did think there were going to be improved links from redcliffe to the airport north bris too, but bit out of touch with it all now. We always used to drive out, but there is a bus link over the bridge to the train station as an option but never used it.
Apr 30th 2010, 4:18 pm
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Re: Moving to Margate, Brisbane
Yeah the Airport link has finished from the Gateway Nudgee part and it has made Gateway traffic a lot worse on the Northside. I know there are more plans to improve the Gateway motorway but I don't believe anymore of that is on the Northside, which is where the worst of it is currently. It is still just about quicker for me to drive into South Bank than it is to catch the train. Don't even bother with the bus!
May 1st 2010, 10:12 am
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Yeah the Airport link has finished from the Gateway Nudgee part and it has made Gateway traffic a lot worse on the Northside. I know there are more plans to improve the Gateway motorway but I don't believe anymore of that is on the Northside, which is where the worst of it is currently. It is still just about quicker for me to drive into South Bank than it is to catch the train. Don't even bother with the bus!