Also, if you have one built, you need to factor in the little extras. Have a read through this thread for example.
Here's a very accurate one on the cost of living in Queensland, as an example.

Thanks Polly, I've just read the thread and all I can say is crikey! When we were thinking of living in Brisbane we were goind to build, but were put off when we couldn't really pin the builder down on a final price. It was far too variable for my liking. That other thread gives an excellent example of just how much the extras are and how they can vary.

Out of curiosity, most houses here are build by a building company where you effectively choose one off the peg, customise it and they build the whole thing. Does anyone here build in the style of how you see it being done in the UK on programs like Grand Designs? You know where you basically build it yourself and subcontract out bits and pieces and you manage your own build? Is that done here at all?

Hi there...

we applied on the 21st of June, under the "designated area sponser", so we'll be relocating to Brisbane, for the time required, then move onto Perth, afterward..

we're going to go over in June, and validate the visas, then come back sell up etc.. we never really anticipated it going through this quickly..

we had our Medicals & Police checks Scot&Eng, done in September 06.

we're shocked at how quickly it has all gone through...

good luck to you all

Bonny

I dont think you fully undersand what i am saying.I have noticed you have started and written on a lot of posts ref moving back to the uk !!!....you live in perth for a start isnt that where all the poms go.....and one of your posts state about finding British curry in perth!!!!!...............I think you think I am writing about you......perhaps you dont like alot of things about oz as much as britain...thats up to you, i am off to either queensland or adelaide.Not perth.......I am going to australia in 5 days maybe then i will get a shock and see how awful it is and my ozzi syndrome !!!!!!will just vannish. ......i will visit jobs, schools, people who are english living there....estate agents and get a feel for the place just think in queensland i can buy a beautiful large house with land instead of struggle living in a small ex council house, also the job offers for carpentry there is £14.50 per hour a bit better than £ 8.50 here hey......and you wonder why i want to move ....

heh find out what plumbers earn while your their we want to be in queensalnd goldcoast asap.roll on may tryin to find ot house prices for diffeent areas in queensland dont want big flash house just nice 4 bed pool in decent area near schools thinking of robina let me know how things go
lesley

Hi does anyone live in and around brisbane/queensland who have settled there from leaving the uk.......i am off to oz in 5 days and wonder if any expats living brisbane/queensland would be kind enough to spare half hour to let me know how it's been for them........will only be there about 6 days in queensland, will travel from brisbane to sun shine coast and gold coast.... will be leaving uk on the 7th feb.....will visit sydney for two days then queensland then adelaide.....in the process of migrating....... thankyou

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hi lesley will find out for you no problem..... hey you dont want a flash house .... but a pool and 4 bed......sounds flash to me......one of those houses here would be £800,000 where i live south uk.........i thinks me want one too ha ha !!!!!robina meant to be lovley.......

have 5 bed house 3 bathrooms in whitley bay newcastle for what were paying her mortgage wise could easily afford 4 beds and the pool.
also got no quality of life with so many kids (7) to be precise and teh weather so bad and cold most of the time there stuck indoors 9 months of the year on pcs and nintendos got to be more to life than this.
in uk we couldnt afford anything bigger certainly not down south were they at least have better weather .
oh i wish it was may
cheers lesley

I've watched them all so far (will watch today's tonight) and yesterday's family seemed to me to have had the most clear cut decision. Victor Harbour seemed the ideal place for them. I spent a day there in October, it seemed a nice town and the surrounding countryside is lovely. I hope they make it, they seemed a nice family.

One thing that has really struck me about this daft programme is that no real thought seems to have gone in to where to send the families. If some of the families have had a budgets where they would really struggle to get somewhere nice in Sydney or Perth, why didn't they think about sending them somewhere cheaper to start with? And why no Melbourne or Hobart or anywhere not a capital city?

Go through the forum with various searches like "plumber wages" or "plumber queensland" and you will find lots of threads.

Similar - go through the forum and search for Brisbane - in fact just read back through threads over the last week. There are a phenomenal amount of posters on this board in Queensland, both settled and unsettled. can't offer to meet you myself as I am off to the UK on the 12th

Wait till its too hot for them to go outside, and they end up back onthe Nintendos again....

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Similar - go through the forum and search for Brisbane - in fact just read back through threads over the last week. There are a phenomenal amount of posters on this board in Queensland, both settled and unsettled. can't offer to meet you myself as I am off to the UK on the 12th :

Hi Pollyana my husband has just been on the forum for the first time .And noticed that you are having a get together at the the Gap? in brisi on the 10th,Ill be there then is ok for me to go?would be a great chance to me a few of you all at once!!!

[QUOTE=graciebluecat;4350147] ha ha ha i know that will probably happen too. will search threads for info on plumbers wage work in queensland thank you

[QUOTE=graciebluecat;4350147] Yep, all welcome at The Gap - print the maps off the thread and you should have no problem finding it. I just have to stay sober enough to get on the plane on the 11th or I won't be in the Uk on the 12th !
You won't have any problem finding us at the club - the staff have been warned!

[QUOTE=Pollyana;4350239] COOL!!!and thanks for the info....sounds like fun...staff have been warned !!!!....OMG.. ..what am i in for????....ha ha.....pollyana can you advise me on somewhere to stay in brisi or sunshine coast?...any info really appreciated.

WOW ...seven kids amazing..sounds a lovley big house....south coast is ridiculous for prices you looking for a house your size here will be over the 1million pound mark...........i agree with you on the weather here its drizzle,....i would rather it be humid hot then cold.....i wear my coat all the time even in the house and yes i have heating....i have raynaurds so feel the cold all the time....not nice....there is more to life i agree . look forward to move....