All beautiful areas, and highly recommended. Stirling and Craters are personal favourites of mine.

Cherry Gardens is a little further out (I have friends there) but it's gob-smackingly gorgeous.

Not sure how I have offended you, with this statement because I havnt said anything mean??

"As for child abuse, very strong statement to make and if you are dealing with it within a working environment and cant handle it then.... erm leave, rather than have a go at people on a site about it???"


I have no issue because you have made a negative comment about Oz, believe me I have made many myself, but you shouldnt make sweeping comments if you cant deal with the come back!!

In my experience I have many friends here that work in schools, and as child carers and they wouldnt agree with your statement!! But I certainly dont have the time to get into a row with you about it, seems to me that you need oh god cant say because I will be mean!!

Back to the original question
Have a look at the fax section on
http://s2.invisionfree.com/Adelaidebrits/
Yes its a bit chilly at night, but then it is winter and 14degrees during the day isn't bad at all, and on the plus side, we havent had any sleet or snow
best advice, as already said is come and have a look round, get a feel for the place before you decide.
Good Luck

why not north of the city,?? iwas brought up in Salisbury and Elizabeth, and it is a great place to live.....child abuse occcurs every were, even in the "leafy " eastern suburbs, if your having a negative day , say nothing you only breed more negativity....................mm

we have relis in elizabeth and they say the area isnt as good as it was 20 years ago ... but compared to where we live at the moment it isnt really that bad at all (we live on a crappy council estate in sheffield!)
also got relis in greenwith (just over from golden grove if my memory serves me right??) and we found greenwith and the surrounding areas were lovely, but the housing was packed very densely together ... yet the houses were very, very different in design!
lastly, relis in klemzig ... they love it - nice area, yet close to main roads for commuting and about 10ish minutes from adelaide.
we recently stayed at west beach (just up from glenelg) and for us it was heaven - if we werent going to qld we would def wanna go back there!

Sorry TWT i have to disagree , i think Elizabeth has improved in the last 20 years, they are probably like my parents [ in their 70 s] and rue the passing of the 10 pound era.
A walk around Elizabeth shopping on a Friday night you would hear every British accent imaginable, most of the children of this generation now live in the suburbs you mentioned, Greenwith, Wynn vale ,Goldengrove, Mawson lakes, not far from their roots.
The urban spread has engulfed this area , in the next 10 years Gawler will become a suburb of Adelaide somthing i hope not to see.. it is good to see that people are moving back to the 1/4 acre block so kids and dogs have room to move...........cheers mm

Did you see that report the other day saying Gawler is the saddest place to live in SA I'd be pretty happy if I could afford to live there

Does anybody know a place called Woodcroft? We are renting a house there for 2 weeks at end of August when we arrive. Going to use it as a base to explore Adelaide as never been there before. We're then going 'mobile' and travelling around for a couple of months (need to visit rellys in north Qld too) while choosing where to settle!

Feels incredibly weird - have resigned good jobs in UK, sold house and coming to Australia with no house/job and two children aged 8 and 5!! Although am sure many have done the same! Just hope we get settled/sorted!!

I was surprised about that when we came for our first trip, did imagine all blocks to be more like Gawler ie more space/land etc!! We have friends bought a house in Gawler and it is lovely, not that expensive but has taken them time to get used to being "out in the sticks" as they to were from Sheffield originally!!

But we have settled in Greenwith and love it, feel like we are not that far away from anything but further enough out to feel like we are in the country (sort of) but like you say how long will that last!!

can i be nosey and ask who you got your rental through. just so i can bear it in mind when we go to Adelaide x

If we decide to go to Adelaide I want to stay in Flagstaff Hill. We lived in Happy Valley for a few months when we visited Australia which also nice or there is Aberfoyle Park. These suburbs are at the foot of the hills. Flagstaff Hill is not too far from the city approx 30 minutes and approx 20 minutes to the beach. It would all depend on my OH getting work. If he could only get a job in the northern suburbs it would be too much of a commute. I've no idea about riding schools though.

Woodcroft is a nice area.Fairly new and still settling in I'd say.

Plenty of facilities nearby and a golf course too

About 40 mins drive into the CBD.
Not far from some lovely beaches and a great base to explore the Flerieu Peninsula.

I live in the next suburb of Onkaparinga Hills.

Actually we are renting the house from Tyke (hello Tyke!). See his post a couple back....!

Anybody fancy a 4 bed rental with pool in Belair?! We've just bought a house in Hawthorndene, up the road, and move out last week of August. All the details are here:

http://z2.invisionfree.com/Adelaideb...howtopic=30780

if anyone's interested!

Cheers,
Jo

(Waves back)

Won't be long now