sutty77

Hi
Just wondered if anyone has recently moved to Brisbane area with children.
If anyone got any info/advice or just to hear your stories, please feel free.
Mandy

jayr

Not recently, six years ago, kids were 5 and 2 at the time. Now very well settled, lived most of their lives here, both consider themselves still to be English (they are, after all) and have more friends and more activities and more to do than they ever would have had in UK.

comet555

The "Brisbane area" is quite large. What area are you planning on moving to?

sutty77

We are sort of looking pacific pines way/ north lakes. Want to be somewhere family friendly as we have 3 girls age 11, 9 and 1 year old.

comet555

If you're looking around Northlakes then you should find a lot of people from the UK up that direction. You might be better off starting a new thread asking about families in the North Lakes/Pacific Pines area. Or... do a search, those areas come up a lot.

sutty77

Do you have an opinion on the areas i have mentioned? Never been to oz so difficult to know where to start. Any info would be great.
I,m at work at mo, on nite shift so just doing some research.

comet555

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...h+lakes+family

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ht=north+lakes

And here's some results for a general search on North Lakes
http://britishexpats.com/forum/searc...earchid=144352

themerlin

Everyone will have a different option about those places so it's best to see for yourself

comet555

No.... I've never been there. I only asked because you hadn't said what areas of Brisbane you were looking at. We're in Bayside, so nowhere near Northlakes area.

There are however lots of people on here that will have things to say about that area. If you start a new thread with those two suburbs in the title you'll probably get the attention of the people who know something about the area.

Failing that you can just see how many people are curious about your thread, or do a search on your own.

mordechaivanunu

Hi
We live in Narangba which is approx 15 minutes from North Lakes, we really like the area, schools good (3 kids 17,15,12) access to highway good etc. It is a very hard to recommend areas as we are all different, but we like it where we are. We moved over in October last year.

kids carer

We are also moving to Brisbane and have 2 girls very similar age to yours 9years and 10months. Would also be interested in any replies.

Demented Ferret

There are so many young families setteling in North Lakes area, plenty are of parks and cycle paths for the kids to play safe.
We have had alot of young families pass our way of the last year.

Good Luck