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Hey, thanks for your in put, always good to hear. i can see desk jobs being easier on the commute for sure. we are heading over in 4wks to scope it out!!

Thank you

Awesome, that sounds great. Thank you actually can you help with school years. maisie was born 29/1/08....she’ll start year 6 in January, is that correct?

Becky - you sound like my guardian angel House sounds perfect that’s what we’d be after! we plan a holiday rental, then we can distribute ourselves out to different areas and see what’s on offer. How do you find schools so far? someone gave me a link, it was 2015, but lots of red spots - I assumed this wasn’t great?! thank you for helping thou. David is willing to commute to come home to cc, so I can see the definite draws. im getting very excited

1.2 M bargain!! thanks for pointing out, because we’ll be renting first off, rent is do-able, so it seems we can afford to live there. also holiday let’s / hotels are affordable too... ill look more into it but think we like Berowra.

Brilliant, thank you very much ill look through the links

Why not a suburb? why not a school in that suburb? dont you have to be within postcode area for school..so I won’t have a choice?

To be honest, it’s a very good point. I didn’t think of them setting in first. Youve had had an amazing Aussie journey! Very jealous!

7 weeks! Wow! i just want to get them registered before the break, happy to send them in for few last days of term if it’s allowed / we arrive in time

Great, I’ll look at those links. Thanks we hope to arrive late nov

Thank you. I have considered this but it’ll mean moving the kids from schoo again and not sure that’s a good thing?! i understand that most people commute, due to the vast area. I think he’ll still see kids a lot as they are older and they’ll go to be 8+, we’ll have weekends together, where we don’t have much of that here.

My husband said about Hornsby, so we are looking around that area. do you know wheee we can look into schools? Are there websites that we can use? thanks

We are in Hertfordshire here, about 30min train from kings cross. We’d never think of living in Posh parts of London - so I see your point. But we’d not want to live that near to Sydney anyways. City life isn’t for us. But I’ll check out those areas. Realistically we need to arrive to see if we can find anywhere or hubby can handle the commute! thank you

We’ve heard NSW don’t offer release. A friend looked into it as she wanted Perth and can’t see his job paying enough in NSW. Itll all work out - still happy to be heading over!

Port Mac and Newcastle were our original areas to live. once our house is empty - it’s time to sit and have a re-think I think! thank you for your advice

Yep - it’s all over. I can’t risk loosing out on citizenship or having my visa cancelled.

We are restricted to nsw. Otherwise we’d be in Brisbane need to stay for 2yr so we’ll stick it out, it’s what you make of it! glad you guys are happy thou

Thanks for the honest reply. Sitting here with my house in boxes as it’s being shipped tomorrow - now wanting to cry ! this was why we wouldn’t of picked nsw originally , knew it’d be expensive! back to the search thanks again

Yep cc can offer it that’s why we are looking there. Can’t see us affording much else without being a flat which is pointless. just a shame the job is there! But we have said it’s a starting point - he’s not tied to it. thanks for your views, it has helped

Budget wise we are guessing around $550 per week. 3 bed house. Rather not be inland but get we won’t be buy the sea on our budget. hubby commuting to Alexandria and decent schools

I was told to avoid west?! Haven’t even looked there. The Gong looks nice thou

How far would a decent beach be? Here we are hours and the beach is rubbish in uk...I appreciate we won’t be there every day but like to visit semi often

Massive thanks for your reply. That link is very good...seems like lots of orange/red spots im struggling here! Where can we live that’s affordable but far enough from city?!

Thank you. I’ve hsd a quick look, it looks very nice. Schools seem good too.