suzyambrose

Well let me put it this way I've got about 35 places for Brisbane and about 12 for Melbourne and we're in Melbourne for a week and Brisbane for 4 days I dunno how we're gonna fit it in!

wanderingwombat

Skip Melbourne.
WW

suzyambrose

I wish we were doing it the other way round now we need the time in Brisbane!

ABCDiamond

spartacus

35 suburbs in how many days?

ABCDiamond

That's like some American friends, touring Europe and seeing all the sights in 7 days

bcworld

Looking at the list I don't think its as bad as it sounds. Depends on what constitutes at looking at a suburb mind you.

Say you started by having a nice brekkie in Oxford St, Bulimba. Then head on to Balmoral / Hawthrone > Morningside > Seven Hills > Cannon Hill > Carina > Carindale> Camp Hill > Holland Park > Mount Gravatt East > Upper Mt Gravatt > Mt Gravatt.

You could see a lot of it in a morning.

suzyambrose

That's good to know, my OH will be glad to hear that I dont think he wants 2 spend all our time in Oz driving around, I imagine it might get a bit boring.

I there anything else should we be looking into while we're over?

LouiseR

Don't forget it's stressful too! When you don't know where you're going, you're talking to your partner/kids, the sat nav decides to tell you to turn left at the last minute or down a road you can't turn left down....

Driving round aimlessly gets very old very fast!

wanderingwombat

Say you started by having a nice brekkie in Oxford St, Bulimba then head straight to Wellington Point, Ormiston, Cleveland, Thornlands & Victoria Point.

That should settle it!

WW

bcworld

I think it would be better to see what some of the city suburbs have to offer before going bush!

Grayling

Kim67

Here's what we did when we moved to Brisbane and had only a couple of days to get an idea of where we wanted to live. We chose the most important thing for us for accommodation. At that time we didn't have kids and our priorities were fencing for our dogs and proximity and access to the city where my husband and I were both working. We ended up in Eight Mile Plains because it had easy access to the city, was in the budget my husband's employer was paying for rent and was one of the only suburbs at that time in Brisbane that had decent fencing for two kelpies. We rented there for six years (in a couple of different houses) until we found the best place to buy. By this time, we had three kids and our priorities were school and ballet. My eldest was going to school near South Bank and her ballet school that she'd become heavily involved in was in Camp Hill. We trolled the inner south side for years until the perfect bargain property in Coorparoo Heights came up and we bought it.

So my advice is to do some research on schools and anything else that interests your family, and then decide on where you want to live. Fish.01 has given you some good advice on suburb choices. Do some research online regarding schools, parks etc are in those areas. I can tell you from first hand experience that inner southside is great for kids. Close to South Bank, the river, heaps of parks and some good schools. Even if a suburb seems out of your price range, you may be able to sacrifice size etc to live there. This website may offer you some helpful information about schools and the catchment you have to live in to send your children there http://education.qld.gov.au/schools/...-brisbane.html

Good luck.

suzyambrose

TBH I'd rather narrow down some suburbs when we get there and then research the schools, if I look at all the schools in all the areas I have on my list well it's just going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack and make it all even more complicated!

Kim67

Fair enough, but if you're intending on sending your kids to state schools, I'd have a bit of a think about it in case you choose to live in the catchment of a dodgy school. When we were in Eight Mile Plains, we sent our daughter to Eight Mile Plains State School instead of Warrigul Road and it turned out to be a big mistake - the school also had kids from Rochedale and surrounds and it was a shocker. We ended up pulling her out and sending her to a private girls school in the city. In grade one there were kids telling the teacher they were going to "smack her *****in' head in".