[the terry's]

Hi Paul,

We are looking on moving to Geelong or Winchelsea (30mins away from Geelong) when visa arrives. I have 4 kids of varying ages and I've looked into this area and it looks great for families. There's plenty of schools, primary and secondary and even a TAFE college in Geelong so at least the schooling for all ages is there. Winchelsea is more semi rural, farming, cattle that sort of thing and to give you an idea of what I've been looking at property wise here goes, 4 bed, 12 month old (bungalow), with all mod cons, 3 acre fenced garden with a further 17 acres of land (20acres in total!) for A$485,000 or about £230,000, not bad really! or 4 bed older style (bungalow) with 5 acres A$380,000. Torquay is a holiday destination for alot of aussies when schools out because it's along the surf coast, and they hold a surfing competition there each year. Prices are a bit steep tho which is why we have been looking a bit further in, although still only 1 hour to the beach (coastline) or 30 mins away to Geelong and all the shops, cafe's etc it has to offer including a cinema!

Hope this helps.

Helenx