ozzieeagle

Good to hear Obviously something is in the wind with fracking though as there has been so much talk and undercurrent about it lately.

Good luck with your venture.

carolinephillips

I'd love to live in a small regional town- though more in the country rather than on an estate. However I need to be within easy reach of hospitals and specialists, so Sydney is where I have to stay- also OH is the breadwinner (IT guru in mergers and finance) and his job is not in small towns, though there is an office in Melbourne and Perth.

ozzieeagle

Is that a wind up LOL

There;s only 400K difference in population now. With Melbourne projected to become bigger in populace by 2025.

On a side note and this is going to sound dead stupid... but the one thing that Sydney has going for it that Melbourne doesnt, is the lack of level crossings across roads up there. For some stupid London related rreason... Those Railway bridges everywhere impressed me.

Dreamy

We'd do it in a heartbeat.

Although we have pretty much the best of both worlds at the moment - live in a beautiful area, with all the amenities we want/need, live in a big enough house on 1/2 acre, but Himself has an hour's commute on the train - so if he could walk/short drive to work and live on acreage on the outskirts of a regional town, then that would be perfection.

We never go into Sydney if we can help it, the furthest we generally venture shopping wise is Penrith. Himself has 2-3 days a month in Dubbo with his work and he'd be happy to live just outside there. Especially now the kids are big enough to be buggered off to their own lives..

papilon

This is exactly what needs to happen all over Australia but especially Victoria and NSW. State gov need to make it very attractive for business to relocate to regional centers. It will take huge pressure Melbourne and Sydney and slow down the endless sprawl. Any business relocating should be given a 5 year tax break.

One thing, if there is mining in the area does it not tend to push all labour costs and services up?

cresta57

So are you saying the residents of BB would approve or disapprove of fracking. Your post is a little ambiguous

ozzieeagle

I would say they would hate it.... being widely reputed to be a earth mother type of town. Thats from a distance though and from what I've been led to believe.

caronandrod

It really depends on what you want from life. We live very rural (a country town of 800 people) on 10 acres, about 4 hours west of Sydney. I love very minute of it, no traffic (nearest traffic lights are 100km away), no pressure, genuine people, no crime (I can't remember the last time I actually locked my car or the house). Having said that, we go into the city every now and again for a weekend break (theatre, restaurants, bars) or head over to the coast (fishing, sailing). I would much rather live here and get my 'kicks' occasionally than be living where everyone gets their 'kicks' 24 hours a day and escape to the country for a break. There is a larger town 40 min drive away for good shopping and anything else I want I can order online anyway. It really depends on the lifestyle you want.

eddie007

Some where along then line I think you stole the Life I should havebhad

Sherlock Holmes

You stole my post!

Just substitute Melbourne for Sydney and it's about the same.

RedDragon2008

Thats exactly where the sense of urgency (well from my perspective) is to get the infrastructure in ahead of what happened in Mackay.

Some of the things I am advocating we do is spread the savings of VOIP to those around us. What this means are huge savings in communication costs (think 80% to 90%). We are looking at getting OC-48 / STM-16 / 2.5G SONETOC-48 which is a network line with transmission speeds of up to 2488.32 Mbit/s so more than enough to allow 300mbps on Wifi.
So imagine you can continue the phone call with your MIL from in the house down the road into work, then to the pub

ozzieeagle

Whats the main difference between this and the mobile Voip service that Pennytel provide ?

cresta57

Sums up my attitude entirely. Brisbane is about 3 hours away, the reef is a couple of hours North for diving & the Great Sandy Straits are 1/2 an hour through the forestry tracks. Cars are under the house with keys in & the house is never locked.
The only crime we've had in 9 years is the damage to the solar panel a few weeks ago & that was by youths from the local town.

RedDragon2008

One you pay

The other you dont (except for small cost of a VOIP phone/handset)

Cheetah7

I would love to live somewhere regional, if we had the cash we would move to Tassie and buy a property with a decent amount of land.

Or another choice would be to buy a large property with our own stretch of beach - now I am just dreaming. But Peppermint Grove Beach looks pretty awesome.