Melbourne question
May 8th 2004, 5:08 am
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Melbourne question
I am about to apply for a job at Whittlesea City Council and Melton Shire Council. What are the areas like. OK or to be avoided? We want to live in a rural area. We plan to move sometime in July this year.
Graham
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May 8th 2004, 5:31 am
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Hi Graham,
We arrived in Melbourne 5 weeks ago and checked out a lot of areas, but liked Melton as soon as we arrived. People very friendly and most facilities are here. We've been here for just over two weeks now and loving it, plenty of room for everybody and loads of great places to walk the dog. We went to Torquay last week and it was just over a hours drive from the house. Loads of national parks close by which we haven't seen yet.
The only problem is my commute to work via the train (I'm in South Yarra) has been 1 1/2 hours each way due to the tracks being relaid. I only started last week so am thinking of driving next week to see what it is like. Still, I would prefer the longer commute than living in the city.
Cheers
Kevin
We arrived in Melbourne 5 weeks ago and checked out a lot of areas, but liked Melton as soon as we arrived. People very friendly and most facilities are here. We've been here for just over two weeks now and loving it, plenty of room for everybody and loads of great places to walk the dog. We went to Torquay last week and it was just over a hours drive from the house. Loads of national parks close by which we haven't seen yet.
The only problem is my commute to work via the train (I'm in South Yarra) has been 1 1/2 hours each way due to the tracks being relaid. I only started last week so am thinking of driving next week to see what it is like. Still, I would prefer the longer commute than living in the city.
Cheers
Kevin
May 8th 2004, 7:02 am
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Originally posted by kevbhoy
Hi Graham,
We arrived in Melbourne 5 weeks ago and checked out a lot of areas, but liked Melton as soon as we arrived. People very friendly and most facilities are here. We've been here for just over two weeks now and loving it, plenty of room for everybody and loads of great places to walk the dog. We went to Torquay last week and it was just over a hours drive from the house. Loads of national parks close by which we haven't seen yet.
The only problem is my commute to work via the train (I'm in South Yarra) has been 1 1/2 hours each way due to the tracks being relaid. I only started last week so am thinking of driving next week to see what it is like. Still, I would prefer the longer commute than living in the city.
Cheers
Kevin
Hi Graham,
We arrived in Melbourne 5 weeks ago and checked out a lot of areas, but liked Melton as soon as we arrived. People very friendly and most facilities are here. We've been here for just over two weeks now and loving it, plenty of room for everybody and loads of great places to walk the dog. We went to Torquay last week and it was just over a hours drive from the house. Loads of national parks close by which we haven't seen yet.
The only problem is my commute to work via the train (I'm in South Yarra) has been 1 1/2 hours each way due to the tracks being relaid. I only started last week so am thinking of driving next week to see what it is like. Still, I would prefer the longer commute than living in the city.
Cheers
Kevin
Cheers
Graham
May 8th 2004, 10:43 am
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Hi Graham,
We've not really been here long enough to say for sure, but definitely a lot better than Ireland (me) or Scotland (wife) in winter I'm sure. The locals have been telling us it doesn't get much worse than right now, and I'm walking about without a jacket (although this is forced - our stuff is in quarantine right now, hopefully we will get it early next week). Ideally we would prefer somewhere with more sunshine and warmer weather, but we love Melbourne so far and have no regrets at all. We are thinking maybe in a few years we could be in Queensland (because of the weather) but probably some of the guys who have been here longer could tell you better about Melbourne weather.
Sorry don't know anything about whittlesea.
Cheers
Kevin
We've not really been here long enough to say for sure, but definitely a lot better than Ireland (me) or Scotland (wife) in winter I'm sure. The locals have been telling us it doesn't get much worse than right now, and I'm walking about without a jacket (although this is forced - our stuff is in quarantine right now, hopefully we will get it early next week). Ideally we would prefer somewhere with more sunshine and warmer weather, but we love Melbourne so far and have no regrets at all. We are thinking maybe in a few years we could be in Queensland (because of the weather) but probably some of the guys who have been here longer could tell you better about Melbourne weather.
Sorry don't know anything about whittlesea.
Cheers
Kevin
May 8th 2004, 11:15 am
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The weathers wiered, can be freezing in the morning and by luch time you need the AC on cos its red hot.
Definately better than UK autumn so far.
Don't know anything about the areas though, sorry.
Definately better than UK autumn so far.
Don't know anything about the areas though, sorry.
