HELP! Where should we live????
#16
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Joined: Mar 2008
Location: Perth
Posts: 281
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
A possibility:
You could get a place like this 8km from the beach in a semi rural area on > 1 acre out the back of the Gold Coast. City of 500,000 so should have all your requirements though I don't know much about the Currumbin Valley so a local may be able to say whether they are suitable. Not the most useable land, not for traditional crops anyway, but should be very private in a beautiful setting.
Listed at $499,000 (you should offer well under)
one and a quarter acre block
8km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...lley-109575021
or
$542,000 (make them an offer under 500)
10km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...lley-109096421
or
Dual living 5 bedroom
$550,000 (make them an offer under 500)
one and a quarter acre block
11km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...gera-109605616
You could get a place like this 8km from the beach in a semi rural area on > 1 acre out the back of the Gold Coast. City of 500,000 so should have all your requirements though I don't know much about the Currumbin Valley so a local may be able to say whether they are suitable. Not the most useable land, not for traditional crops anyway, but should be very private in a beautiful setting.
Listed at $499,000 (you should offer well under)
one and a quarter acre block
8km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...lley-109575021
or
$542,000 (make them an offer under 500)
10km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...lley-109096421
or
Dual living 5 bedroom
$550,000 (make them an offer under 500)
one and a quarter acre block
11km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...gera-109605616
#17
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
A possibility:
You could get a place like this 8km from the beach in a semi rural area on > 1 acre out the back of the Gold Coast. City of 500,000 so should have all your requirements though I don't know much about the Currumbin Valley so a local may be able to say whether they are suitable. Not the most useable land, not for traditional crops anyway, but should be very private in a beautiful setting.
Listed at $499,000 (you should offer well under)
one and a quarter acre block
8km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...lley-109575021
or
$542,000 (make them an offer under 500)
10km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...lley-109096421
or
Dual living 5 bedroom
$550,000 (make them an offer under 500)
one and a quarter acre block
11km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...gera-109605616
You could get a place like this 8km from the beach in a semi rural area on > 1 acre out the back of the Gold Coast. City of 500,000 so should have all your requirements though I don't know much about the Currumbin Valley so a local may be able to say whether they are suitable. Not the most useable land, not for traditional crops anyway, but should be very private in a beautiful setting.
Listed at $499,000 (you should offer well under)
one and a quarter acre block
8km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...lley-109575021
or
$542,000 (make them an offer under 500)
10km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...lley-109096421
or
Dual living 5 bedroom
$550,000 (make them an offer under 500)
one and a quarter acre block
11km to beach
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...gera-109605616
#18
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
Ah the lush tropical greenery. It's what I miss most about the eastern states. Queensland has some of the most spectacular scenery I've ever seen. Perth is SOOO flat and brown, apart from Kings Park and a few parks dotted around the place. Love the setting for properties 2 and 3.
#19
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
Gorgeous part of the world. About 25 mins to nearest public hospital, and the nearest beach is awesome. A choice of excellent schools - both public and private. However I can't think of any technical/engineering/manufacturing type work down here so I have no idea how far you'd have to travel to find work. Living down here only works if you don't need Brisbane on a daily basis.
#20
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Re: HELP! Where should we live????
Hay with kids under 10 BRISBANE we have the best theam parks,we have a 4 & almost2 year old, are weather is 20 to 30 c humidity can be high for six weeks or so. $500 will get you two roads back from sea at Redcliffe area about 40 mins north of city. Jobs are on gumtree.we have been hear 3 years now and love it. We test run Pearth and Adelaide frends did Sydney.
QUOTE=sarisburysleuth;9947582]We desperately need some advice - we have been considering Australia for some time now and have decided that we should go for it. However, the more we try to find the 'right' place, the more undecided we become.
We are a family of four, with two children under 10. I am a design engineer (although now a technical manager) that could pretty much turn my hands to anything if given the chance and my wife is a specialist paediatric nurse.
Our house wish list is as follows:
Any suggestions or feedback gratefully received.[/QUOTE]
QUOTE=sarisburysleuth;9947582]We desperately need some advice - we have been considering Australia for some time now and have decided that we should go for it. However, the more we try to find the 'right' place, the more undecided we become.
We are a family of four, with two children under 10. I am a design engineer (although now a technical manager) that could pretty much turn my hands to anything if given the chance and my wife is a specialist paediatric nurse.
Our house wish list is as follows:
- Within 10km of the coast
- Priced up to $500k inc. around 0.5 acre (could never afford this in a decent part of the UK)
- Within 30mins of civilisation - shops, etc
- Within easy reach of good schools, a decent hospital and in an area where some form of technical/engineering/manufacturing work exists, although I don't know anything about the mining industry.....yet!
Any suggestions or feedback gratefully received.[/QUOTE]
#21
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Joined: May 2006
Posts: 6,600
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
Go back to the drawing board. Can you get a visa? If yes then move on to can you get work. If yes, where? What's the climate like in those places where you can get work. Do you like it hot, humid, temperate, dry etc etc. Then you narrow it down even more, finally coming down to how close to the sea you want, how close to the CBD you want, what suburb do you need to be in to go to a particular school etc etc etc.
#22
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
I do make lists. However I also seem to mislay them and forget what's on them. Anyway that's how I worked out the best place for us. Listening to random strangers on a forum discussing the 'ideal' suburb gave me a headache
#23
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 20
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
To me, it all comes down to job. Where there is job, there is money. Where is money, there is happiness with family and everything else that goes with it.
Landed in Perth a while back. There are huge opportunities out here. There is a saying heard more and more now, about a two tier economy, which basically means the west is running faster than the east. It doesn't mean that the west is propping up the east, which is often the way the expression is presented.
Take all the advice you can. However you may also want to try the expos, particularly where each of the states present to you, what do they have to offer. Many think the expos are naff, and to some extent they can be. There is certainly no jobs there, unlike the way they advertise themselves. However, they have loads and loads of information, and that's what you need.
And as someone mentioned earlier, first and foremost make sure you can get a visa and they will let you in !!
Landed in Perth a while back. There are huge opportunities out here. There is a saying heard more and more now, about a two tier economy, which basically means the west is running faster than the east. It doesn't mean that the west is propping up the east, which is often the way the expression is presented.
Take all the advice you can. However you may also want to try the expos, particularly where each of the states present to you, what do they have to offer. Many think the expos are naff, and to some extent they can be. There is certainly no jobs there, unlike the way they advertise themselves. However, they have loads and loads of information, and that's what you need.
And as someone mentioned earlier, first and foremost make sure you can get a visa and they will let you in !!
#24
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
Sovereign Hill Estate, Gabbadah, Perth ... 8kms from beach at Guilderton / Moore River.
Nice easy going lifestyle
2.5 acres with houses for sale under $500k
30 mins to shops at ocean keys, clarkson
45 mins to Joondalup hospital
Nice easy going lifestyle
2.5 acres with houses for sale under $500k
30 mins to shops at ocean keys, clarkson
45 mins to Joondalup hospital
#26
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
#27
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
Sorry, but calling Moore River or Guilderton 'Perth' is incorrect. http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&tab=wl A bit like calling Cambridge 'London'.
As I live in sovereign hill I do actually know it is "WA", so thanks for bringing my "mindslip" to the attention of everyone.
To the OP ... If you do decide to come to WESTERN AUSTRALIA then it is definitely worth a look
#28
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Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 14,188
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...eden-108971086
but they all have one thing in common... arse end of nowhere.
#29
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
Oh stop being so pedantic Im sure the OP is capable of googling
As I live in sovereign hill I do actually know it is "WA", so thanks for bringing my "mindslip" to the attention of everyone.
To the OP ... If you do decide to come to WESTERN AUSTRALIA then it is definitely worth a look
As I live in sovereign hill I do actually know it is "WA", so thanks for bringing my "mindslip" to the attention of everyone.
To the OP ... If you do decide to come to WESTERN AUSTRALIA then it is definitely worth a look
On a side note I've been trying to talk the OH into buying some land up that way. I would love a couple of acres.
#30
Re: HELP! Where should we live????
We can all come up with great looking houses for not much money... check this one out
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...eden-108971086
but they all have one thing in common... arse end of nowhere.
http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...eden-108971086
but they all have one thing in common... arse end of nowhere.
Gold Coast houses I posted are not arse end of nowhere though
BTW, That house you posted really is the arse end of nowhere....had to zoom out seven times before I could work out where it was
Last edited by fish.01; Mar 16th 2012 at 7:40 am.