Hi Petals,
Thanks for the welcome and advice. Sorry to hear about your friend, I hope she is ok now. We know about some of the issues you said, work, 4 year teaching degree, housing etc.
Plan is to get a bit of land and build our own, wea are simple people so wont be anything over the top, no Grand Designs here.
We just need to weigh up the pros and cons of each and as you say it is a difficult decision. Still one will be getting chosen, we are doing a recce to NZ in Sept, just wish we could squeeze in Tasmania.
Many thanks for the advice.