Originally Posted by fish.01

North Lakes is part of Brisbane, Ormeau isn't.

Originally Posted by bingobob777

prove it

Originally Posted by fish.01

charming as always have you read post #24 yet? if so I'll carry on from there.

Originally Posted by Grayling

You may as well say that Ipswich is a suburb of Brisbane then....it is closer than many mentioned

Originally Posted by fish.01

It already is. See post #24

Originally Posted by Grayling

Then that shows just how ridiculous this whole issue is.

Ipswich is a city in it's own right.....How about the Gold coast? shall we call that Brisbane as well?

Originally Posted by Jensanco

Asprilla I'd love to.
We were actually destined for Melbourne for a job but having sold the house we contacted the company hubby would be working for to say we'd sold and would be starting to make arrangements to get out there and did they have an exact date they'd like hubby to start and they replied saying they'd already given the job they'd said would be his on arrival to someone else - was a bit upset as they could have at least emailed to tell us!

Hubby has two possible positions just South of Brisbane? One at Yatala and one in Richlands, but we don't know if we'll find out before we get out there if he has managed to get one or neither of them :$. Not the best situation to be in really but there you go. Hubby is happy to do any job until he can get a position in his area of work but picking up just any job in the UK isn't easy so not sure about Australia.


With an uncertain job position we really don't want to pay more than about $450 per week for a rental, we have 4 children but don't have a problem with 2 of them sharing at least initially so a 4 bed min would be great, don't want an acreage or anything but enough room for the little two to play in the garden would be good.
I know the potential jobs are south of Brisbane but I'm leaning more to the North, I did look up a few schools in the Gold Coast??? area and was shocked really by the reviews for around half of the schools I looked into with comments like the school having serious bullying problems, and the worst one being that there was problems with knives being taken into school :$ and these would have been fairly good commute if hubby were to get the job in Yatala. He would be working shift work for either so perhaps traffic would be less of a problem. ( I appreciate it's only a handful but they would have been the places we'd be looking at commute wise to Yatala that would be a walk to school for the kids.

I'm not daft I know there can be a few louts even in the nice areas, but we'd prefer to live somewhere that is on the whole, family friendly, good infrastructure, we want to manage with one car if possible so having shops, generally good schools, parks, drs, pharmacy etc all in one area would be ideal.
I quite like the look of the North Lakes area but obviously I need to be realistic hubby wants to avoid an hours commute if he can

Jen

Originally Posted by asprilla

Hi there Jen, well that's definitely given everyone some more to go on. Unfortunately I don't know the south side too well, but there are a few folks on BE living down the gold coast way who I'm sure will be able to help....

Richlands: I've got a friend who works out that way, he lives on the bayside at Manly in a lovely spot. Fair drive to get to work, approx 1hr each way, but a great place to live I reckon. Only reason I'm mentioning this is just so that you don't discount the suburbs on the bayside.

Yatala: wait for further advice from Gold coast based BE resident experts.....

Originally Posted by Jensanco

Thanks Asprilla, last comment wasn't directed at you.

I think if he got a job in Yatala the commute from Bayside wouldn't be too bad. just having had a look at the map. Though I've been told to avoid the school in Mount Cotton :$ - there was me thinking the area looked nice but a couple of people have said the school is terrible :$

It is very hard without having a job to go to isn't it?

Thanks Again