How did you chose??
Oct 26th 2007, 8:03 am
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Re: How did you chose??
Our Reccie was a visit to friends. In the tropical Far North of Queensland. The Atherton Tablelands to be exact.
We had been to Sydney, Perth, and Brissie plus a few places in-between.
Didn't want to be in a city personally. After leaving the crowded UK couldn't see the point of heading into another crowded city and rat run in suburbia.
We wanted good (warm) weather for most of the year and an area with NO WATER RESTRICTIONS
This region has it all, Cairns and the beaches, Mountains, tropical rain forests, the barrier reef, the dry dusty outback all within an hour.
Cairns is a great airport with Direct flights to Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong all about 7 hrs away. This northern gateway is two hours + closer to the rest of the world
No time shift to speak of - this close to the equator (Latitude 16 degrees south) there is only about 20 mins difference between Sunrise and Sunset all year - which is great for the old body clock.
So when you weigh up what an area can offer it's not all just about work, the more expensive place you put yourself, the more work you'll have to do to pay for it. I have traded a high paying job for quality of life - N QLD has it all, don't make a decision until you've been up here.
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We had been to Sydney, Perth, and Brissie plus a few places in-between.
Didn't want to be in a city personally. After leaving the crowded UK couldn't see the point of heading into another crowded city and rat run in suburbia.
We wanted good (warm) weather for most of the year and an area with NO WATER RESTRICTIONS
This region has it all, Cairns and the beaches, Mountains, tropical rain forests, the barrier reef, the dry dusty outback all within an hour.
Cairns is a great airport with Direct flights to Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong all about 7 hrs away. This northern gateway is two hours + closer to the rest of the world
No time shift to speak of - this close to the equator (Latitude 16 degrees south) there is only about 20 mins difference between Sunrise and Sunset all year - which is great for the old body clock.
So when you weigh up what an area can offer it's not all just about work, the more expensive place you put yourself, the more work you'll have to do to pay for it. I have traded a high paying job for quality of life - N QLD has it all, don't make a decision until you've been up here.
I'm now a Human being - Not a human doing!
Fabulous post, that is excatly what i want for my life. to spend time with the children and stop working 20 hours a day 7 days a week building at work and coming home and building a two storey side and back extension with no bloody help.
Want to go to work, part time and the wife work part time and then take my son to the beach before he spends all day at school and we dont get to know each other.
good quote at the end of your post. Just what i intend to be.
Kev
Oct 26th 2007, 10:54 am
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Oct 26th 2007, 4:43 pm
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Re: How did you chose??
Anyway, me and the Mrs met and worked in Melbourne for a few months. Then returned to Melbourne a few years later, then spent time in Sydney, and finally got married in Cairns.
So when we migrated here we moved to Brisbane
, a city we had never visited.I suppose the logic was, if Brisbane sucked, we could move to Melbourne.
JTL
Oct 26th 2007, 4:50 pm
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Re: How did you chose??
Fish and chip shops shut at 7:30pm !! Its true . Couldn't believe it...
Anyway, me and the Mrs met and worked in Melbourne for a few months. Then returned to Melbourne a few years later, then spent time in Sydney, and finally got married in Cairns.
So when we migrated here we moved to Brisbane, a city we had never visited.
I suppose the logic was, if Brisbane sucked, we could move to Melbourne.
JTL
Anyway, me and the Mrs met and worked in Melbourne for a few months. Then returned to Melbourne a few years later, then spent time in Sydney, and finally got married in Cairns.
So when we migrated here we moved to Brisbane
, a city we had never visited.I suppose the logic was, if Brisbane sucked, we could move to Melbourne.
JTL
My OH has just come back from Melbourne (and Adelaide) actually, she loves it there too but she's a Brisbane girl at heart so I'm happy to put down some roots here ... yeh ... those roots.
Oct 27th 2007, 12:11 am
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Oct 27th 2007, 12:14 am
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Re: How did you chose??
It was a choice between Adelaide and Brisbane because they where both cheap
Brisbane came out on top because I looked on the map and was further North so therefore must be warmer.
Looking back the amount of research we did was incredible (not).
But we had not kids back then so figured if you didn't like Brisbane we could try another city.
Brisbane came out on top because I looked on the map and was further North so therefore must be warmer.
Looking back the amount of research we did was incredible (not).
But we had not kids back then so figured if you didn't like Brisbane we could try another city.
