Please anyone any tips for Perth V Melbourne . OH said thanks to my dad we should go to Perth. Now at crosspaths, we dont know about the work front in Perth for stonemasons , know a lil about in Melbourne. My dad came over to england in 60's so he big ups Perth.We should be all being well be in oz for new year and we have two small children so I am worried about having them out of school to long.

Wurzel lover heh? Spelt it wrong though. You are talking chalk and cheese with Melly and Perth. Give us a clue what you are looking for. but I reckon there is nowhere better to raise kids than Perth.

Sorry for my mis spelling, I am a big fan well I am from Bristol!!! Ummmm
I want the beach life for the children but coming from a city , I love city life but then again I dont want to live in the city. But dont want to be in smallville . Does help you, I know!.
To be honest we are worried that work in OH trade will only be in the cities like Sydney, Melbourne (so are aussie friends say here anyway). I have only ever been to NSW. If my dad had not gone on and on about Perth
I would not be in a mess

Sorry was going to tell you I love the Wurzel's (thats how the band spell it ) I am not on about worzel's as I am one !!! But think its rather great to have such a user name. Not from our neck of the woods?

I adore them both, but they really are chalk and cheese.

We settled, in the end, in Melbourne and don't regret it at all

All I'll say to help you out is don't fret about the kids being out of school to long if they are young. They get a years grace here anyway. The experience can be far more educational than a class room anyway

Can someone explain in what way they are chalk and cheese please?

In my opinion, and I have been to Melbourne 5 or 6 times, it is a bustling metropolis so there is more to do but more congestion etc, we would have ended up living further out and hence commuting longer had we gone there. The weather is more English. Perth is more laid back, / smaller. I come from towns of 100,000 people or less so like the smaller town feel to it. Everything is within 30 minutes of home and there is more than enough to do if we want to go to gigs, have a big night out etc. Outdoorsy things like camping and boating are important to us so Perth suits us best by far.

I knew I could have saved a lot of hassle by moving to Leeds.

PMSL @ Bordy

The weather...Ahhhh always a great discussion. I prefer 3 months of cooler weather in Melbourne to the 3 months intense heat in Perth, its personal choice!

Melbourne is green (except between december and March!) and lush and fairly hilly. Perth has beautiful beaches, open spaces etc.

Melbourne has heaps more to do (events and the like) but is more crowded than Perth. (but to put it into perspective, about 60 million people in the UK and about 4.5 million in the whole of Victoria, so its really not crowded!)

Perth is the most isolated city in the world (apparently) and it is costly to leave there (flying, or a very long boring drive). Melbourne is a sprawling city but you can be in the countryside in an hour, in Sydney in 11 hours, in Adelaide in 8 hours or fly anywhere over east for a more reasonable price.

In Perth you will probably live nearish to the sea and get more sun and have less traffic. In Melbourne you can choose sea, city or mountains within an hour of the city and snow in 2 hours.

Does that explain chalk and cheese enough?

[QUOTE=hevs;5427016]PMSL @ Bordy

The weather...Ahhhh always a great discussion. I prefer 3 months of cooler weather in Melbourne to the 3 months intense heat in Perth, its personal choice!

Melbourne is green (except between december and March!) and lush and fairly hilly. Perth has beautiful beaches, open spaces etc.

Melbourne has heaps more to do (events and the like) but is more crowded than Perth. (but to put it into perspective, about 60 million people in the UK and about 4.5 million in the whole of Victoria, so its really not crowded!)

Perth is the most isolated city in the world (apparently) and it is costly to leave there (flying, or a very long boring drive). Melbourne is a sprawling city but you can be in the countryside in an hour, in Sydney in 11 hours, in Adelaide in 8 hours or fly anywhere over east for a more reasonable price.

In Perth you will probably live nearish to the sea and get more sun and have less traffic. In Melbourne you can choose sea, city or mountains within an hour of the city and snow in 2 hours.

Does that explain chalk and cheese enough?[/QUOTE]

sorry but can you go into a bit more detail Hevs

Errm.....the cheese is crap wherever you live in Aus

so are the sausages

Now you have got me in a pickle thats my trouble We just cant make up our minds. See both cities have something we want, I am fed up with not knowing what to do. We could stop off on the way to Melbourne

Thats what we did. For about 6 weeks we travelled across It was awesome and the kids were sold into the idea once we'd done heaps of stuff too

Put them between 2 slices of bread and you will know trust me