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Just started to get my self together for applying to migrate to Oz from Bristol. I'm having a huge decision about where to move to, theres just so many places!. I think I have narrowed it down to Perth of Melbourne but is there anyone who could give me some good points or the bad about each location.
Perth and Melbourne....you couldn't have picked two more opposite Aussie cities.
Pros for Perth:
1. beautiful weather all year round
2. Less crowded than Melb
3. Real estate is much cheaper
4. Gorgeous beaches
5. very relaxed city (due to it's smaller size)
6. A good support network for Poms (there's heaps of
Poms in perth)
7. Shorter travel time from England to Perth (cheaper)
Cons for Perth:
1. isolated form the rest of the country
2. Too many Poms (just kidding)
pros for Melbourne:
1. On the East coast so convenient to travel to
Sydney, Tasmania, New Zealand.
2. Great restaurants and shopping
3 Big city so has all the "conveniences" of a large
city
4. has a great transport network
Cons for melbourne
1. The second most expensive city in Australia to
live (after Sydney)
2. Hot in summer ...freezing in winter
3. Also very unpredictable weather
4. rents and real estate is VERY expensive
Hope this helps a little
I've been in Sydney for 5 years. Used to live in Southampton
OZ is a really really big place. Many people love Perth but its closer to Singapore than it is to Sydney! You really are isolated. which can be good or bad. I find Sydney a small place so I think i would go stir crazy in Perth ( still never been ! ) . Depends if you wanna get away from it all. I hear its a really nice place to visit. It has a meditereans climate. Hot dry summers, cooler wetter winters.
Sydney to Perth is the same distance as Los Angeles to New York or London to Turkey. Apart from Adelaid and Melbourne there isnt much to write home about ( if you like big towns) in between. I'd say Adelaide is as big as Southampton but its the capital of South Australia, and thats it until you get to Perth 2,000km later!!!!!
These are all generalisations and stereotypes but I hope you get my drift.... I think Melbourne is the cultural centre of OZ similar to New York with a european feel, and cold & damp in winter ! with down to earth people . where -as Sydney is like Los Angeles big , brash, always in a hurry and beach culture with an outdoor lifestyle. Sydney siders pretend it doesn't get cold here in the winter but it does! They don't do heating very well so I'm colder inside than in the UK! The winters are nice in Sydney, sunny & dry all winter down to about 9c at night and up to about 20c in teh day , so not bad for Winter. Sydney has hot wetter summers and cooler dry winters. Housing is VERY expensive here. But an hours drive north or south and it becomes reasonble.
Queenland and Brisbane have the biggest population growth at the moment. It seems to be the place to be. Housing cheaper than Sydney too.
Its currently cheaper to rent than buy in the cities due to the way the tax system works here for investment properties. House prices have skyrocketed in the last 4 years. They are now slowly dipping by a percent or 2. Many people have no chance of buying especially in Sydney
check out the date so many years ago and still the same question being asked today! I wonder if there is one Question not been asked on this site already?
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Geoffrey (32, an aussie!!), Tracy (35), Jake (7), Jessica (2) & Joseph (1)
check out the date so many years ago and still the same question being asked today! I wonder if there is one Question not been asked on this site already?
Probably Geoffrey - so how many chickens have you inseminated today anyway - Thats my question to you!?
but then im sure i've wrote a post that has been posted on here before, sometimes we're so mixed up and been forever researching and getting nowhere and then we find this site wiv all the helpful people on and we buck up the courage to ask the question that has been bugging us whether or not it has been asked before.
