We are thinking about emigrating to Australia, probably Melbourne area, where is the best place to go?

Question

The area must have a hospital as my wife is a nurse and good schools for our children aged nine and five.

Answer 1

G'day,

Most Melbournians are looking around the East, South and Southeast side, so the price of the properties on those sides are pretty expensive.

The inner suburbs are old houses, pretty dense and small, with expensive prices due to their closeness to the CBD.

I used to live in Collingwood and Clifton Hill (the inner suburbs) with my parents. When I got married in 2000 and looking for our own place. The obvious path will be to look around the area that I have been lived in. However after searching for awhile we realised that with our budget of about $300K, we could only find a run-down house that we need to renovate extensively. We were looking further and further towards East and South East area, until we reach Rowville and felt that it becomes ridiculously too far, not to mention the peak-hour traffic report that you usually hear from the radio on the M1.

We finally settle in Point Cook, west of Melbourne. It is about 20min from the city via Westgate Freeway with plenty of new estates being opened, affordable price, close to the sea and infrastructure that aimed for young families. Just try and have a look yourself if you are interested to find out.

I am enclosing 2 websites that lists available property around Melbourne. The 3rd website is one of the main real estate in Point Cook area, if you are interested to see around the area. The last link is the article from The Age, one of the main newspaper in Melbourne in regards to criminal rate around Melbourne suburbs.

In regards to primary schools there are 3 choices: Public/Government, Christian/Catholic and Private. Public schools have pretty much the same standard wherever you go and they are the cheapest alternative. You usually just enrolled to the one closer to where you live. The list of government schools are here: http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/schoolsonline/Browse.asp
Private are the most expensive, since on top of the tuition fee, you will still have to buy books, uniform,laptops etc. The list for non-government schools are here: http://www.isd.com.au/.
I am also enclosing some job websites as well if you need it. They are as follows:
www.seek.com.au
www.mycareer.com.au
www.careerone.com.au

For your wife, there is a hospital nearby my area named Werribee Mercy Hospital. However there are also other jobs that she can work with her expertise besides hospital, such as Nurse On-Call service, which is Victorian Government initiative to provide 24hrs information health information helpline. For more info on health career, go to www.vic.gov.au.

Good luck and welcome to Melbourne. I've been living in Melbourne for 16 years, visited some other capital cities in Australia and still giving Melbourne 10/10 for the best city.

Answer 2

Adelaide. It is a really friendly city with everything that you would expect from a larger city, but with a nice 'small' feel about it. Easy to get round, compared to UK(we have been here a year) public transport is cheap & efficient. There are some really nice safe beaches, and the hills are lovely if you get a bit homesick for greenery! The weather on the whole is very like the Med, our first winter temperatuures didn't really go below 10 degrees, so not like scraping the ice off the car in the mornings!!! Housing is much cheaper here too, Adelaide has an ill deserved reputation for being a backwater, but as I said earlier we have found it a nice place to settle. Your husband would have no problem transferring. If you do make it out here, remember, it will take at least a year to stop feeling weird and not wanting to run home and also to stop converting dollars to pounds! We have found the cost of living to be much cheaper than UK. I wish you luck with your decision making, it took us along time to decide, but we are glad we made it here, even our cat came with us and has settled happily.

Answer 3

Look at melbournecitylife online. It tells you about all the different areas and you can check out property prices etc.
I think there's also a book you can buy called something like moving to australia/buying property in australia from whsmith or waterstones, which may come in useful in helping you make a decision.
Melbourne does get cold in the winter, but that's the same with all the southern cities like sydney and adelaide.
But at least you're guaranteed a summer every year living in any city in oz, unlike here in the uk where if we get a few weeks of summer we think we're lucky.
Good luck and hope the move goes well for you.

Answer 4

If you are going to live in Melbourne I would suggest the eastern suburbs as they are much nicer than the other suburbs. Depending on your budget though on where abouts in the eastern suburbs blackburn is a nice reasonably priced area. Glen waverley is nice as well. For something closer to the city hawthorn is nice, however I dont no what its like as a family area. For a list of jobs in the eastern suburbs area go to www.easternhealth.org.au, there is a large number of jobs in a wide range of fields in eastern hospitals.
For public schools I would recommend glen waverley, their high school (for later on) is one of the best public high schools in the state and their primary schools are good as well.
If you have any other questions just email me

Answer 5

http://tinyurl.com/377pas

We'll be glad to have you here :)

the above link will provide you with a list of some of the nursing /nursing aid positions that are current today in the Melbourne area ...

as there are hospitals in many areas ( and schools) you may need to do further reseach on the suburbs ( will be happy to help you if you need )

Answer 6

You'll get a job before you buy a house so don't stress too much about where you live. Flemington Road (North Melbourne) has lots of big hospitals. Box Hill has another big hospital and Clayton has another one. Look on seek.com.au for jobs, then look at whereis.com.au to look at maps.

Good schools are everywhere - public and private.

Answer 7

Geelong in Victoria. It is less than an hour from Melbourne. Hospital not far. My friend moved there and she and her husband work in the hospital. It is on the coast.

Answer 8

Queensland hot, Melbourne is now having bush fires.get to a travel agent for answers

Answer 9

if you are from a cold place(UK) Victoria/Tasmania is the place for you a bit cooler there than QLD pick a large country town that has a hospital & inquire about jobs & housing & go from there
schooling in small towns is good as not as many kids in them as city schools

Answer 10

Anywhere in Queensland. Best state of all.