Sunshine coast or not
 

I am moving from Victoria to Qsland,wife and three kids 10.7.and 5yrs.we want to know is the Noosa area worth a look.(Retired LFB any questions answered)Arrived in oz 2yrs ago,Geelong,Vic weather cold windy and erratic :beer:

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my brother is lucky enought to live in noosa and we've stayed there several times. it is gorgeous and you're not far from the glasshouse mountains etc if you want a change from great surf. there's a web cam on noosa beach if you search. good luck

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We went On holiday to the Sunshine coast last Nov/Dec, it was fab, :) Noosa was lovely but the beach was really smelly, something to do with algae ! Its very cosmopolitan & a bit pricey. Mooloolaba/Maroochydore are also really nice, we wanted to move to Mooloolaba but the DIMIA said that we could only go to Maryborough part of Qld :mad: so we have now decided to go to Adelaide with a view on moving to Mooloolaba after 2 years. :rolleyes: Good luck with what ever you decide.

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Spent christmas day on sunshine beach at Noosa -- It rained !!
We're hoping to go to Melbourne -- Is the weather as cr*p as everyone says it is?

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:beer: Yes,I dumped all my warm clothes before leaving england,I bought some more soon after arriving in Geelong.Hence moving to Qsland

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Well don't dump the clothes yet - it gets nippy at night up here in winter, and many houses have no real heating.

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Hi,Pollyana thanks for the reply,how cold is cold?in Geelong we put our heating on some nights midsummer??I guess we have just had a bad spell of weather(2years)
If you are near Noosa whats it like,schools,social,Weather shops etc etc.

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We went to Noosa last October with the view to relocating there. However we decided against the place because even though it was lovely it felt a bit pretentious.

Our preference is Coolum Beach. Much more down to earth, more realistic real estate prices and the beaches are a lot nicer, as were the people.

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Answered lots of questions on noosa in a couple of threads recently, try a search they will come up, basically Noosa is a very upmarket holiday resort at the northern end of sunshine coast, the southern end is just as nice but has a lot more jobs and is just that half hour closer to brisbane which is always handy. Caloundra, Buderim, Alexandra headlands, Mountain creek and mooloolaba seem popular with poms although I dont know where they head to in mooloolaba its mainly all units now. Were in noosa now but will be moving down to the southern end of coast in about 2 weeks when our house settles mainly due to all of our work being there.