Is Melbourne Good For Families?
Hi Melbourne Ben,
We are just starting out on the long road to (hopefully) a skilled migrant visa. There are 4 of us, my husband (who is a software engineer), myself and two children aged 9 and 6. We have been looking at Melbourne partly because there seems to be IT work there and partly becuase it seems to offer a good quality of life.
Trouble is, I've been reading other threads where people have been moaning about various aspects of life in Melbourne and it's confusing me.
We've moved around the UK a lot and I've always found that it takes about a year to get a feel for a new place and to settle in. I think some of the problems some people are having come from not having moved so often so expecting to settle in straight away. I expect it to be hard now whenever I move so I'm never disappointed!
The other thing that strikes me about people who may be having problems in Melbourne is that maybe they have not been used to big city life before? I've lived in a number of big cities and they all have the same problems with transport, grafitti etc etc and I'm assuming that Melbourne is just like any other big city, you take the rough with the smooth.
What would be really good would be to get opinions from people with children about how you can live and work in Melbourne, get a decent standard of life and a good education. I suppose what I really want is to be reassured that there is nothing wrong with Melbourne and that we could make a good life for ourselves there.
Any opinions or comments would be great.
Linda
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