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You don't like the hills....haven't heard that one before :)

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Not as a cyclist or as a driver. The road layout follows the hills so is quite confusing!

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You're living on the wrong side of Brisbane for a hill hater...even your suburb name has a hill in it :)

Personally, I love them....the windy, crazy laneways traversing the hills give the inner western suburbs their character. But I guess its tough if you don't know where your going.

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Ha they are pretty to look at be on top of - actually we were looking at living in Darlington in WA, but here its hills everywhere! A bit of straight flat road is nice now and then

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Hmmm...

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Most people that start moving around states usually end up going back to the UK.

You could save yourself a lot of bother and get a one way ticket home?

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Well i didnt! since moving states it has made me want to stay here more than ever, :) sometimes it can be to do with the place is not right for them or it could be to do with themselves,for me it was the place that was getting me down so the change did us all good.

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I don't think so.

If offered the choice of Brisbane or go back to the UK...I'd be in the UK now.

Instead, I went to Melbourne (1.5 years ago)...and have got no desire to go anywhere.

I suppose if someone has gone from WA > Qld > Vic > NSW > Tas > NT > ACT > SA and still hasn't found something they like then I can see your point. :D

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I did that, but then came back again and tried another State, and stayed :rofl:

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I'll agree with that :D

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I love it too - we have seriously considered living there but the head overruled the heart, as the train service is not great and I work in the city. Also properties don't come up for sale very often. I was surprised to see the demographic breakdown - as you say, quite a few Brits.

I think the attraction is the villagey, holiday place feel, but in reality the lack of facilities, not even a supermarket, would probably get to me. So we've just bought in the city fringes and Brooklyn has been put on the "maybe in a few years" pile. (We've been there quite a few times but a lasting memory is the bloke staggering up and down the middle of the street with a can of Jim Beam and coke in his hand and a cockatoo on his shoulder. :D )

OP - I agree with other posters that you really need to analyse why you are unhappy. Do you not like where you are now, or do you miss the UK? If you still think of the UK as "home", moving states is probably not going to help.

Sorry you are feeling this way. :(

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Hi

Interesting thread as we've had a few thoughts about doing this ourselves, not a cheap option as it seems to be about the same price to ship from Tasto the mainland as it did from the UK to Tas!!

OH would prefer just to move back to UK, but I think I'd rather try somewhere else, even if it was only for a year or 2, as it would give us the chance to try a different lifestyle and climate, the whole idea behind moving to Oz in the first place was to experience something different after all. The children would prefer not to move at all but simply because they don't want to change school, but they have said they would rather move to another state than return to the UK.

Hope it works out for you Kingseat, whatever you chose

Sam