Melbourne or Bust.......!

[heather38]

Is Melbourne really everything everyone says it is........?

I am in such a dilema.......want the weather (Brisbane too hot) Canberra....heard its the land time forgot?????? Sydney too expensive............adelaide???

Can anyone help??

[Life on easy street]

It really depends what is important to you.

Queensland has some of the best beaches in Australia but because it is closer to the equator it is hotter all year around.

Melbourne
Nearest beeches at port Melbourne & St kilda they are ok.

The beaches at mornington peninsular are a close second to queenslands beaches.

There are also some great beaches along the great coast road about 2 hour’s drive from Melbourne.

General Appearance
Areas near flindrs St train station Elisabeth St, Swanston St can be a bit untidy.
But do not let that put you off it only one small part of the city.

Eating out
Melbourne has European feel to it.
Eating out there is every type of food you could possibly want
If you like Chinese you could eat at different restaurant every week.

The weather
Can be changeable it can be 37 Deg one day then it can drop to 17 Deg the next depends on the direction of the wind.

Melbourne & Adelaide are experiencing unusually hot temp for the time of year 36 Deg forecast for today.
As there is a high-pressure zone over the south of Australia at the moment what little wind there is from the north.

[Quoll]

Grrr I really want to say bad words when people knock Canberra.

It is as good a place as any in Aus to be - a really nice blend of urban and rural. It is clean, spacious, nice weather - 4 seasons a year, it has super views from almost anywhere and is built so there is a lot of green space and you are not shut in by buildings. We dont get the wind whipping up straight from the South Pole and generally our drivers dont wear their hats when they drive!

There is heaps to do - we have some very nice alfresco dining opportunities, there are regular major events - the biggest folk festival in the country is here next weekend. We have a thriving, if not international, theatre scene, music is more common than not - not always the super big names but you can grit your teeth and head off to Sydney if you are that desperate to see the Rolling Stones! Yesterday we had a super fireworks display (not quite sure why but spectacular if you like fireworks.) There are more Olympic sized pools in the local area than the whole of UK (inless you have built quite a few over the last couple of years). We have a Chinatown without having lots of ethnic ghettos.

Our schools are as good as anywhere else and the ACT prides itself on its educational standards. We have some excellent beaches a couple of hours away and also some top level snow fields same distance in a different direction. Our medical services are on a par with anywhere else in Aus - apart from one or two specialities in which case you go to Sydney.

Sure it has that feel of a country town but that is not all bad - we dont have the gangs roaming the streets, we dont have huge tracts of pylons and smokestacks (cf the ride from Melbourne airport into the city!!!), we have nice people

Why people would actually want to live in Melbourne is beyond me!

[Stuju]

Why not have a look at NSW - theres more to it than Sydney !!!! the weather here can be very seasonal as close as the seasons on the uk (but without the intense cold ice & snow) property is not expensive all over NSW they are cheaper areas too i.e. you can buy a 4 bed property for approx $380,000 (much bigger than a uk 4 bed property)

We have a friend who lives on the central coast NSW and works in Runnaway Bay area of Goldcoast Queensland - he finds that Queensland is no cheaper than living in NSW.
All the best
gizmo