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We are thinking about emigrating to Australia, probably Melbourne area, where is the best place to go? |
Travel Info The area must have a hospital as my wife is a nurse and good schools for our children aged nine and five. Travel Tips G'day, Most Melbournians are looking around the East, South and Southeast side, so the price of the properties on those sides are pretty expensive. The inner suburbs are old houses, pretty dense and small, with expensive prices due to their closeness to the CBD. I used to live in Collingwood and Clifton Hill (the inner suburbs) with my parents. When I got married in 2000 and looking for our own place. The obvious path will be to look around the area that I have been lived in. However after searching for awhile we realised that with our budget of about $300K, we could only find a run-down house that we need to renovate extensively. We were looking further and further towards East and South East area, until we reach Rowville and felt that it becomes ridiculously too far, not to mention the peak-hour traffic report that you usually hear from the radio on the M1. We finally settle in Point Cook, west of Melbourne. It is about 20min from the city via Westgate Freeway with plenty of new estates being opened, affordable price, close to the sea and infrastructure that aimed for young families. Just try and have a look yourself if you are interested to find out. I am enclosing 2 websites that lists available property around Melbourne. The 3rd website is one of the main real estate in Point Cook area, if you are interested to see around the area. The last link is the article from The Age, one of the main newspaper in Melbourne in regards to criminal rate around Melbourne suburbs. In regards to primary schools there are 3 choices: Public/Government, Christian/Catholic and Private. Public schools have pretty much the same standard wherever you go and they are the cheapest alternative. You usually just enrolled to the one closer to where you live. The list of government schools are here: http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/schoolsonli... Private are the most expensive, since on top of the tuition fee, you will still have to buy books, uniform,laptops etc. The list for non-government schools are here: http://www.isd.com.au/. I am also enclosing some job websites as well if you need it. They are as follows: www.seek.com.au www.mycareer.com.au www.careerone.com.au For your wife, there is a hospital nearby my area named Werribee Mercy Hospital. However there are also other jobs that she can work with her expertise besides hospital, such as Nurse On-Call service, which is Victorian Government initiative to provide 24hrs information health information helpline. For more info on health career, go to www.vic.gov.au. Good luck and welcome to Melbourne. I've been living in Melbourne for 16 years, visited some other capital cities in Australia and still giving Melbourne 10/10 for the best city. Source(s): www.realestate.com.au www.domain.com.au www.pointcookrealestate.com.au http://www.150.theage.com.au/view_bestof... Other Travel Tips Anywhere in Queensland. Best state of all. Queensland hot, Melbourne is now having bush fires.get to a travel agent for answers if you are from a cold place(UK) Victoria/Tasmania is the place for you a bit cooler there than QLD pick a large country town that has a hospital & inquire about jobs & housing & go from there schooling in small towns is good as not as many kids in them as city schools You'll get a job before you buy a house so don't stress too much about where you live. Flemington Road (North Melbourne) has lots of big hospitals. Box Hill has another big hospital and Clayton has another one. Look on seek.com.au for jobs, then look at whereis.com.au to look at maps. Good schools are everywhere - public and private. I live in Melb. |
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