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We live in Victoria and if we speed or get caught by police, they still take all your details and put them on your Australian licence when you get one, no matter the date you got fined/caught, so that don't apply in victoria, so i would check that out if i was you. or better still don't speed. xx

Hi, We live here in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong towards the south, and have done for 6 years since we moved over from the UK. We love it over here and did originally think that if we didn't like it we could try other areas instead of going back to the UK. But since we got here, we love this area, we have stayed. I wouldn't consider moving out of this area personally. We are so close to so many beaches most are 20 minutes or less away so easy to drive to. Geelong City center is only 15 minutes away and we have the ocean enclosure where the kids can swim in the sea (and it's free) with no need to worry about creatures in the water. (not that we have a great deal to worry about down here, its colder in the ocean so one advantage is most of the stuff to be afraid of is further north). There are plenty of playgrounds (play parks) here to chose from, there are all over the place, from small ones to huge ones. the bigger ones have free BBQ's for your use. Check out http://whatsoningeelong.com.au/ this will give you loads of info about up and coming events in the area and they bring out a new magazine for free every month with all the up and coming events. Teaching jobs are a little hard to come by, depending on the school you apply to, just like in the UK, and the school year has just finished here. The school year goes from end of January to December so we are on our summer 6 weeks break now for Christmas. Substitute teaching seems to be the way to start over here and it will give you an idea of the different schools in the area. Preps are the first year of school and they start after they have turned 5 here, so a year later that the UK. Primary schools go to year 6 then high school goes to year 12, where they are 18 when they leave. Some/Most private school go from prep to year 12. so you have either primary teaching certificate prep to year 8 so can teach year 7 or 8 in high school, or secondary certificate year 5 to 12 so can teach year 5 or 6 in primary. Hope this all helps and welcome to ask any other questions xx