Coming to Melbourne with young baby

**nikola27** · 09-08-2011, 07:58 PM

Hi all we are hoping to arr in Melb Sept/Oct time and then hunt for somewhere to live, within 30mins of the CBD! COming with a 4/5month old baby and will deffo be interested in meeting other new mums...so excited to have finally got the job offer and just hope things go ok with the visa...so hard to know whether to sell car/give up rent on house etc before visa is granted but we expect to be leaving very shortly after so will have to take the risk and start getting stuff sorted! Dreading flight and time difference with baby but will be worth few days/weeks of disruption I'm sure!

**Guest31881** · 10-08-2011, 02:21 AM

Hi Nikola,

I have moved your thread to the Victoria forum you may get more answers here than in the welcome section.

Take a look at one of our sister sites that is just for Victoria and Melbourne members, you may find your answers on there.

http://www.lifeinvictoria.com/

Best wishes and good luck with your new life

**leanda** · 10-08-2011, 02:56 AM

Hi Nikola

Where are you thinking of settling? I am in point cook which us vet family friendly and I have a 1 month old son.

I can understand your nervousness about the flight as it is bad enough for adults but hopefully your little one will sleep for aloof if it

Leanda x

**DannyCoyles** · 10-08-2011, 03:07 AM

Hi

We have a 7 month old boy, we live in the south east. if you end up over this end of towm let me know.

Danny.

**nikola27** · 10-08-2011, 07:56 AM

Thanks all! Deffo check out the life in Vic site and also Point Cook area. So far we've been looking at SE maybe Oakleigh area as love the pedestrianised cafe area on google maps...guess we'll get a better feel once we are there, but will deffo be looking up other mums for coffee etc! Just can't wait to get over there now! Miss another British winter..hoorah!x

**velly** · 18-08-2011, 01:14 AM

we moved out of the city to Torquay to have our child...cant beat bring a child up next to the beach IMO :)

**rikyuu** · 18-08-2011, 02:21 AM

Originally Posted by velly

we moved out of the city to Torquay to have our child...cant beat bring a child up next to the beach IMO :)

sorry a bit off topic, living in Torquay sounds great, but what kind of work is available around there to cover the cost of living? I'm expecting it's not cheap.

**DannyCoyles** · 18-08-2011, 02:27 AM

Originally Posted by velly

we moved out of the city to Torquay to have our child...cant beat bring a child up next to the beach IMO :)

I grew up in a seaside town, it wasnt in sunny Melbourne and the beach days were limited but it was great.

**Judyuk** · 18-08-2011, 06:41 AM

Hi Nikola we moved over here in April this year with twin boys aged just one and a five year old so if we can do a flight anyone can, they slept most of the way the first part of the flight the second was much harder but we got thru it. The younger they are the better your baby should hopefully sleep. We moved to a place called sandhurst about ten mins from Frankston takes my hubby about 35 mins to get into work just outside the city. It is very family friendly and you will meet lots of people especially with children. Let me know where u end up and we could meet up and introduce you to a few more people I know some from where I live to point cook area. X

**velly** · 19-08-2011, 04:28 AM

Originally Posted by rikyuu

sorry a bit off topic, living in Torquay sounds great, but what kind of work is available around there to cover the cost of living? I'm expecting it's not cheap.

I work at Ford in Geelong (contractor) but you will find most people in Torquay work for Ford or Shell lol

I rent a 3 bedroom townhouse with a garage 800meters from the beach for $380/wk

Yes house prices are high if your buying but you can still find cheap rentals