Victoria the place to be

[tracy123]

Victoria’s estimated population is 5,205,200 (as of June 2007) with more than 70% of all Victorians are living in Melbourne and is Australia’s 2nd largest City but smallest mainland state.

People worry about the Victorian weather so I’ve included the average monthly temperature as a guide. Victoria has a dry heat and during the summer months it will hit the mid 30 degree mark.
Melbourne’s climate is temperate and variable with
no great extremes and one of the lowest rainfall
levels in Australia.
www.bom.gov.au

Average monthly maximum

temperature in Victoria

Month


Melbourne


Mildura

January

25.8 °C Melborne


32.8 °C Mildura

February

25.8 °C


32.7 °C

March

23.8 °C


29.3 °C

April

20.2 °C


24.1 °C

May

16.6 °C


19.6 °C

June

14.0 °C


16.0 °C

July

13.4 °C


15.4 °C

August

14.9 °C


17.7 °C

September

17.2 °C


21.1 °C

October

19.6 °C


25.0 °C

November

21.8 °C


29.0 °C

December

24.1 °C


31.7 °C

Source: Bureau of Meteorology

Transport

Trams
Currently, there are 31 individual tram routes in the metropolitan area, eight depots, and a fleet of 474 trams, providing nearly 34,000 services a week. Melbourne has the third largest tram network in the world with 245 kilometers of double track, this is growing all the time.
The train, trams and buses all run off 1 ticket even though owned and run by many companies. Melbourne is divided into 2 zones, zone 1 is Melbourne’s inner suburbs and zone 2 being it’s outer suburbs. Then you have the country network run by V/Line
Fares
Short term Metcards
ZonesCity Saver
City Saver Full $2.80
Concession $1.60
2 hour Full fair (zone 1) $3.70 (zone 2) $2.80 (zones 1+2) $5.80
Concession (z1) $2.30 (z2) $1.70 (z1+2) $3.30
Daily Full (z1) $6.80 (z2) $4.80 (Z1+2) $10.60
Concession (z1) $3.70 (z2) $2.70 (z1=2) $5.60
Off-Peak Daily Full – – $9.90
Concession – – $5.00
Sunday Saver Full – – $3.10
Seniors Daily Concession – – $3.40

Education
The table is a list of the highest-rank schools based on VCE results as published by Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. The data are ordered by the median study score (MSS in the table). The maximum study score is 50. If the results are equal, schools are then ranked by the percentage of the students with a study score above 40 (P>40 in the table).
Low average VCE score by P40 or MSS measure does not necessarily mean that the teachers of a school do a bad job or provide a poor environment for the gifted students. Some schools (e.g. Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, Melbourne High School) are highly selective and take only the fast learners, some private schools attract fast learners by offering them scholarships, etc. On the other hand, many schools accept all the applicants (or even specifically encourage applications from students with learning disabilities) but still provide an excellent environment (accelerated programs and advanced classes) for the gifted students.
Girls on average produce better VCE results than boys and therefore the statistics of all-girls schools may seem better. Finally, academic progress is only a part of the services that secondary schools provide to their students. Still many parents consider high VCE study scores to be very important in their choice of the schools.
Some private schools encourage gifted students to take International Baccalaureate examinations instead of VCE, thus, lowering their average VCE score.

First line the number that the school is placed in 2006


Name of the School


Where the school was placed in 2005


MSS


P>40

1.
Mac.Robertson Girls' High School
1
39
43

2.
Melbourne High School
2
38
38

3.
Bialik College
3
37
41

4.
Shelford Girls' Grammar
44
37
36

5.
St John's Regional College
39
37
33

5.
Korowa Anglican Girls' School
40
37
33

7.
Camberwell Girls Grammar School
5
37
32

7.
Mount Scopus Memorial College
7
37
32

9.
Presbyterian Ladies' College
7
37
31

10.
Ballarat and Clarendon College
9
36
28

10.
Carey Baptist Grammar School
21
36
32

10.
Melbourne Girls' Grammar School
21
36
32

13.
Ruyton Girls' School
12
36
27

13.
Scotch College
12
36
27

15.
Genazzano F.C.J. College
17
36
25

16.
De La Salle College, Malvern
4
35
28

17.
St. Kevin's College
6
35
25

17.
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School
9
35
25

18.
St. Catherine's School
21
35
24

18.
Strathcona Baptist Girls' Grammar School
37
35
24

18.
Melbourne Grammar School
17
35
24

18.
Camberwell Grammar School
12
35
24

22.
Caulfield Grammar School - St. Kilda East
21
35
23

22.
Caulfield Grammar School - Wheelers Hill Campus
19
35
23

25.
Sacre Coeur School
26
35
22

25.
Methodist Ladies' College
12
35
22

28.
St. Margaret's School
9
35
21

28.
Beth Rivkah Ladies College
57
35
21

28.
Huntingtower School
34
35
21

31.
Tintern Girls Grammar School
59
35
20

31.
Firbank Grammar School
32
35
20

31.
Trinity Grammar School
44
35
20

34.
Lauriston Girls School
na
35
19

34.
Loreto Mandeville Hall
12
35
19

36.
Kilvington Girls' Grammar
33
35
14

36.
Edenhope College
na
35
14

38.
Swifts Creek School
na
35
11

39.
Victorian College of Arts Secondary School
29
34
23

39.
Goulburn Valley Grammar School
29
34
23

39.
Mentone Girls' Grammar School
21
34
23


I'm more than happy to keep adding things as i find them, but it would be great if people could add things as well almost like a 1 stop shop, that anyone thinking of moving to Victoria could find all the info on 1 thread rather than trolling through the 1000's of threads PIO have.
Also please note the VCE results are from 2006 if you look at the 2005 results, results can change.

[Toorak Trev]

Might be worth dropping that info in a spreadsheet to better represent the results for like for like comparisons

[Bobj]

Does this help??

Doctors fleeing Victoria for better jobs in Queensland in News & Events at My Medical Career


Or this?

A Victorian’s Guide to Townsville and North Queensland.


We love tourists in North Queensland, well actually we don’t but we do like your wallets a lot so if you are planning on coming up here for a holiday here are a few pointers on what to look out for and generally what not to do.

OK to start with here is a few tips on how to recognise a North Queenslander.
1. No my father wasn’t an aboriginal, its called a tan.
2. No we don’t need to give our clocks a workout twice a year because you people can’t get up an hour earlier. We have more than enough sunlight and if you would like to take some home please feel free to do so.
3. We aren’t the ones with white as a sheet legs, arms and faces.
4. We aren’t the ones drowning in a pool of sweat in 25C and requiring hospitalisation due to heat stroke, at 11.00PM.
5. We aren’t the ones who get sunburnt walking out to the car and back
6. We aren’t the ones who go swimming at the beach, except in the stinger enclosures.
7. We aren’t the ones driving 30 kilometers an hour under the speed limit towing a triaxle 40 foot long caravan with a 1984 Corolla blowing great clouds of smoke.
8. We aren’t the ones who go looking for crocodiles every time they seen a warning sign on the highway because we know that they are there.
9. We aren’t the ones looking for a coffee shop after 9.00pm because we have Macca’s for that.
10. We aren’t the ones attempting to do box turns
11. We aren’t the ones who can’t understand the local lingo
12. We aren’t the ones who insist that Victoria is a great place to be on our number plates, we are too modest for that.
13. Queensland really is the smart state. It has to be because so many dumb Mexicans want to move here.
14. Crocodiles prefer Victorians to Queenslanders; they think they taste like chicken.
15. We do actually follow Aussie Rules up here but it’s against the state law to believe that it is some form of religion.
16. It is an unwritten law that we can take the pizz out of any Victorian we come across. Don’t get upset, it is a form of being friendly. We could of course just ignore you like we do to people from NSW.
17. If you can’t take it, stiff. It’s a harsh country with hard people who live here.
18. If you do want to move here to live you will be welcome to undergo the trial by climate.


Cheers, Bobj.

[Eera]

I know I shouldn't bag Vistoria; the family all come from the High Country (Bright - it's a beautiful place when it's not on fire). We got sensible and escaped up north though. Along with every other Victorian in a caravan at the moment it seems; Bob's point 7.

(Australia's great no matter where you live, but having lived through three major bushfires in my time I'd take a cyclone anyday).

[olly]

Does this help??

Doctors fleeing Victoria for better jobs in Queensland in News & Events at My Medical Career


Or this?

A Victorian’s Guide to Townsville and North Queensland.


We love tourists in North Queensland, well actually we don’t but we do like your wallets a lot so if you are planning on coming up here for a holiday here are a few pointers on what to look out for and generally what not to do.

OK to start with here is a few tips on how to recognise a North Queenslander.
1. No my father wasn’t an aboriginal, its called a tan.
2. No we don’t need to give our clocks a workout twice a year because you people can’t get up an hour earlier. We have more than enough sunlight and if you would like to take some home please feel free to do so.
3. We aren’t the ones with white as a sheet legs, arms and faces.
4. We aren’t the ones drowning in a pool of sweat in 25C and requiring hospitalisation due to heat stroke, at 11.00PM.
5. We aren’t the ones who get sunburnt walking out to the car and back
6. We aren’t the ones who go swimming at the beach, except in the stinger enclosures.
7. We aren’t the ones driving 30 kilometers an hour under the speed limit towing a triaxle 40 foot long caravan with a 1984 Corolla blowing great clouds of smoke.
8. We aren’t the ones who go looking for crocodiles every time they seen a warning sign on the highway because we know that they are there.
9. We aren’t the ones looking for a coffee shop after 9.00pm because we have Macca’s for that.
10. We aren’t the ones attempting to do box turns
11. We aren’t the ones who can’t understand the local lingo
12. We aren’t the ones who insist that Victoria is a great place to be on our number plates, we are too modest for that.
13. Queensland really is the smart state. It has to be because so many dumb Mexicans want to move here.
14. Crocodiles prefer Victorians to Queenslanders; they think they taste like chicken.
15. We do actually follow Aussie Rules up here but it’s against the state law to believe that it is some form of religion.
16. It is an unwritten law that we can take the pizz out of any Victorian we come across. Don’t get upset, it is a form of being friendly. We could of course just ignore you like we do to people from NSW.
17. If you can’t take it, stiff. It’s a harsh country with hard people who live here.
18. If you do want to move here to live you will be welcome to undergo the trial by climate.


Cheers, Bobj.

I knew you would be along any minute Bobj....!

[olly]

I know I shouldn't bag Vistoria; the family all come from the High Country (Bright - it's a beautiful place when it's not on fire). We got sensible and escaped up north though. Along with every other Victorian in a caravan at the moment it seems; Bob's point 7.

(Australia's great no matter where you live, but having lived through three major bushfires in my time I'd take a cyclone anyday).

You are right about the Victorians in caravans travelling at the moment Eera, my retired brother says he is having trouble finding spots in the parks, worse than ever before, as he has been travelling now in the Victorian winters for 5 years now. He says that they are finding problems getting in all over the place up through NT and WA.

[olly]

And another thing Bobj, I don't taste like chicken either (so I am told!)

[Petals]

Victoria will always be the place to be. Too much sunshine give wrinkles, snakes eat cats and dogs in Queensland so safer in Victoria. Hence we have more migrants coming than every other State, not Brits, migrants from all over the world.