manxfamily

Anyone moved to areas classified as regional?

How remote is remote Australia and has anyone who has moved on a SIR visa settled okay and intend to stay in the sticks. Or indeed anyone on the SIR and cant wait to move to the big smoke when DIMIA allow?

Maple Leaf

what regional areas are you talking about..can you give some place names...

manxfamily

Any that are classied on the SIR visa, not Brisbane/Perth/Melbourne metropolis etc. I think they are listed as post codes by DIMIA.

We are moving to Brissie on a Skilled Indi 136 so we can live anywhere we choose, I was just curious as to how people get on in smallville australia as opposed to the usual city migrants.

aussie73

It depends where you live. Some regional places escpecially within 1 hour of a capital city, places like Geelong west of Melbourne are'nt remote at all and have all the facilities of a large city but on a smaller scale.

banjo

we're regional....2hrs south west of Melbourne. We sometimes go through to Melbourne, but then can't wait to get back out again. Geelong is only an hour down the road if we need anything we can't get in our town (rare) or want a change of scenery. Plus in other directions we have The Otway's 45mins away, Great Ocean Road 45mins - 1hr and then Warrnambool (another largish city) 1.25hrs away. It's the perfect location really. Not sure you would find something similar in Queensland though as it is so much bigger and spread out that Victoria.

Downsides.....everyone knows everyone else and a lot of them have been here since the first convict boats arrived so you have to be careful what you say to whom. They have streets named after their families and so this somehow elevates them above us newly imported riff-raff. Of course everyone else always knows your business too......sometimes before you do.

Other positives.....the local hospital is great and you get pretty much private style treatment as a public patient. When having our baby last year we had a room all to ourselves with private bathroom etc. Much better than sharing a ward with 8 others.

Bix

Not sure about SIR but Timber listed the areas for RSMS here......

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...highlight=rsms

ohippy

The southern part of regional WA starts Mandurah way, which is lovely, not out in the sticks at all and a number of expats head that way even tho they don't have to live in regional WA. They choose to.

Timber Floor Au

OKIES LETS SETTLE THIS LOL

Regional Oz, isnt BUSH OZ !!!

We found out we live in regional oz, after buying our home.

Our home, is at SPEED 25 minutes into cbd, 45 minutes to airport.

Please Note:

Regional Oz doesnt mean OUTBACK OZ I will post details on Pebbledashers

Timber Floor Au

Cheers Matey Just added download of full australia postcode and suburb directory if anyone wants it too

gjc38

We're in regional Australia - Whyalla in SA - a large town with the outback to the rear and the beach in the front.

We love it and when we leave are more than happy to return....we prefer it to Adelaide though not necessarily to other places in the rest of Australia.

We find that those who try and put you off Reg Australia (and there were planty who were happy to slang Whyalla before we moved here!) are those who haven't tried it - or even been! There are major pluses, cheaper, not city living, cleaner air, more wildlife on your doorstep and the 'real' regional Aus is so much more accessible even if you're not quite living in it. However, if you're a shopaholic and love a swanky lifestyle then it just won't be for you probably.

Judes
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Timber Floor Au

Please send pics of the regional area you live in, or post them here, so we can add them to pebbledasher database, it would surely help ppl who are looking to move into regional areas.

Many thanks Steve

JAJ

There are different definitions of "regional" depending on the visa in question including.

- STNI
- Skilled Designated Area sponsored (subclass 139)
- SIR
- RSMS


Some parts of Australia are 'regional' for one or more of these visas, but not all of them.

All of South Australia and Tasmania qualify as 'regional' for all four visas. Including Adelaide and Hobart.

- Canberra (ACT) is regional for 139 and RSMS.
- Melbourne is regional for 139 and STNI.
- Townsville and Cairns in Queensland are regional for SIR, 139 and RSMS.
- Perth is regional for STNI only.

Some towns near major metro areas (eg Geelong VIC and Mandurah WA) are 'fully' regional.


Jeremy

ezvanetree

This forum moves so fast I am sure I am too late to post on this--But for what it's worth we moved directly to Darwin when we moved to Australia, and not for points. We have been here four years. We wouldn't live in Sydney or Melbourne in a million years--big cities are just not for us at all. The work in a place like Darwin can be a lot better (big fish small pond thing) and there are sometimes financial incentives to keep people here. The houses are cheaper (for Australia, where it is all over priced, but that's another thread) and everyone is from somewhere else, so friends are easy to make and people muck together at Christmas etc because their family is far away etc. We lived one month in Wagga Wagga before we moved to Darwin (work reasons), and have travelled all over Australia, but I still wouldn't live anywhere else while in Australia (we are moving again in six months to Canada, but that's for family reasons).

BettyBoop

Living in a large metroplitan area is not what we are moving to Oz for...we can get that here, too easily...we are moving lock, stock and barrel for a different culture, a better and cleaner standard of living and a more outdoor, therefore healthier way of life for our son (and for us)...and less crime (o.k. of course it exists, but not anywhere near the same degree)!
Acreage would be the ideal for us....plenty of space to be ourselves and do what we want to do....just consider the variety of life styles in this country, and hopefully undestand that many emigrating to Oz are not simply replicating the life that they have here.

BB

legibijy

I had got my SIR visa for Adelaide last Feb. Validated my visa (first entry) just last week! went to Sydney and fell in love with it! Now i am in a dilemna! I want to go to Sydney and not to Adelaide! Since I havent seen Adelaide, could anyone tell me how it is compared to Sydeney? Planning to go for good by next June to spend my next 2 years there and hopefully on my path to PR...