For all the Aussies out there.. Which city is the best place to move a family to?

Where are all the Peeps from down under?? I know you are awake at this time!

Any of them. Just make sure you are not mistaken for americans.

How are the school systems down there?? How is the multiculturalism there? Overall would you say one city is more friendly then others?

cairns, hobart

Both of those places seem too far away.

If thats an issue...Brisbane is the best of the 3 evils.
Sydney if live on the north side where its still predominantly anglo.

Move to the country, which in most cases is not that far from the big cities. I grew up in Sydney, it is a shit fight nowadays. They have a mosque in the suburb I grew up in and most of the shop signs are in Arabic. The local deputy mayor has just been jailed for fraud and as a result the council has been disbanded and integrated into another shire. I think that he is the dude that painted "Wake up Aussie Moslem take over" on the same council chambers some thirty years ago. Eat shit Salim! And to think that my now deceased German father was naturalised an Aussie in those very chambers.

Melbourne is better, except for the weather and the hoards of rampaging Somalis. Great arts centre and lots of live music venues. The 'Espy' in St Kilda is where they shoot Rockquiz..great show. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

Brisbane is nice, not too much shit happens in Brissie, except for when they refuse to mitigate floods by releasing water from the upstream dams and then it rains cats and dogs and everything goes under.

I don't mind multiculturalism to a point. I live near Toronto and it is a big mix of everything. As long as anyone is a good person, I don't care what/who you are. My husband feels a bit differently on that.

If there was a way that hubby could work remote I would prefer that, but your country has crazy ass deadly animals. That scares me more than the people lol.

Doesn't the country have more crazy deadly critters to worry about? I was just watching a video of some guy casually pulling a 40ft python out of his laundry basket, like that is a daily occurrence there??!!!!!

Haven't you watched Crocodile Dundee? Just use the force like Mick did on the water buffalo and all the critters are at your beck and call.

Hobart is OK. The flight cities are Perth, Hobart, Gold Coast Hinterland, maybe Adelaide if you're poor. Melbourne and Sydney - ghettoised. Need to be sure of your suburb. Really Perth and Gold Coast also that way, for example Perth - stay out of Nollamara.

This Littlepixie is shaking her head no, I wouldn't be keen on any of those cities thou I would suggest living on the outskirts of Sydney(Ive been there but not lived there).

Remember Australia is a huge country and if your not keen on the heat then I would also suggest staying below the 26th parallel, its not as hot and no crocks(Im talking the man eating kind, not the ones you wear on ya feet).

The blue mountains keep coming to my mind so here's a link.

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I wish you an easy transition to Australia.

Is there any GOOD suburbs out of Brisbane? The Aussie and Canadian dollar are close in value, which helps for real estate.

Sydney folk try to hard

Brissie has numbskulls

Melbourne gets ghastly winters

Coasts between them all - fantastic

It wasn't until I was speaking to a cousin of mine who is living in Mount Isa, that I realized how damn big Australia is. I was hoping him and my husband would be able to get together for beers. The typical global map does not do it justice on how large it actually is. I think it was like a 20 hour drive if my husband was to try and meet up with my cousin.

I have heard a lot of good things about the Blue Mountains and Australia in general, but some of the comments here are freaking me out lol.

How hard is it to get a fire arms licence for hunting? My understanding is it is more difficult than Canada, which I like, but I like my rifle.

The major cities are multicultural , its just a matter of how much you want to live with.
I agree to judge a person on character not skin color BUT when its a game of spot the Aussie in malls, schools, train stations etc then it can be isolating, especially for kids and teenagers who tend to want to fit in.

But if money isn't an issue, if you pick the suburb wisely and send the kids to private schools, then you could practically live in any major city.

Stat the hell away from Melbourne!
It ‘used’ to be nice, not so much anymore.
The others aren’t kidding about the African gangs, the media and police play it down, but if you find the right social media groups and get word of mouth from the people living there.....well, it’s bad.
Your son in particular would be at risk, at this stage rape is the lesser of their crimes (for now) young white males on their own get beating by large groups of African musloms, the car jacking and home invasions are always violent. Just earlier this week a mob of 60 travelled into a suburb and went full ape, police did nothing.

Sydney is nice, if you want that large multicultural thing.

Brisbane is still pretty nice, if you are looking at the Gold Coast, I guess a little travel doesn’t bother you. Take a look at the Gold Coast hinterland region, beautiful area. Keep in mind the Gold Coast has the Coolangatta airport, so if hubs is flying in n out for work then there is that option.

Brisbane, airport side north lakes or for a closer to the beach feel, Redcliffe or Sandgate. If you want the ‘blockie’ lifestyle..... like a few acres, a pony, dogs, some chickens, areas like Burpengary might suit.

Obviously I am from Queensland.
And love the place!

I have been to Sydney , great to visit, but no thanks, just the traffic and sheer numbers of people. Mind you Brisbane traffic can give me the right shits too...

Melbourne was on my visit list, now I couldn’t be arsed, plenty of other nice places to visit here. Liberals feked the place right up.

Q? What sort of schooling were you looking to put your kids in? Private? College - which is like religious private... or public.

Q? What lifestyle do you want, city, beach, suburbia, or blockie

I would say brisbane as traffic in melbourne and sydney is cancer.

Only rifle licences for hunting Yowies and the occasional roo cull. Then you have to store it disassembled, remove the firing pin and store ammo in a separate safe. Better off hunting at Coles or Woolies.

Lived Sydney whole life. It's like the Bronx of new york. Tough place to be.


Try Darwin or Perth. Or even Alice springs

I think if you join a gun club that you may be able to. Sorry not a lot of help with this one as we are farmers and we just apply under the rural/primary industry side.

I you commin’ ere to shoot our roo’s mate?

LoL ;-)

You can always join a shooting club if living in the Burbs.

To be honest this has kinda been thrown suddenly at us. He started working for them in the summer. We are outdoor enthusiasts. Have acreage in Northern Ontario and I was hoping for us to move up there in a few years. Now with this change in plans I am kind of in a moment. I don't want to be right in a major city. I moved away from that long ago and would never want to be directly in a city now. As for schooling, if the public system is good then I wouldn't mind keeping them in that. If the private schooling is relatively affordable then I would go that route. At this point my daughter wants to either be a specialized electrician or an accountant lol. She also still has a few years left of high school, so who knows what either of them are actually wanting to pursue for college or university.

Ideally if hubby can work from home remotely, then I would want something further away. Have you been to the Snowy Mountains? The thought that you guys have snow actually excites me lol. It would be like a little piece of home. I suppose I would have to look at suburbia because of the kids, unless there are cute towns that are in smaller numbers.

adding to this the safe needs to be bolted to the floor and needs atleast 2 keys or course ya mite have the keypad type in anycause you must go to your local police station and had them the password or the spare key to the safe and your house.

They will occassionaly randomly come around to your house even if your not home to make sure the gun is in the case and if its not a immediant arrest warrent is issued.

So everytime you want to do something with the gun you must tell that police station when what and where ya want to use your gun. They will always approve it solong as you commit no crimes.

It isn't a big deal about the rifles, we just enjoyed hunting game for meat, deer, rabbits, moose. I have no intent on hunting your roo's. Being up North here though, you really don't feel comfortable with out one. Remember we have LARGE predators lol. It seems like where you are, the smaller the deadlier..

Dont move to Australia. Its full of homosexuals and their enablers. Ever since they allowed them have a fake marriage God has removed any protections. Hence the weather and economic issues. Soon it will be over taken by Allah.

Reap what you sow fags.

All of those laws make sense and I wouldn't have an issue with that. Here we have stricter laws then in the states. My husband uses a trigger lock on all his rifles and it is also in a safe that is bolted. Ammo is also in a separate location. Having gun laws is the smart way to approach it.

I will just miss eating tasty venison and moose.

Grafton is nice this time of year, or maybe its Rangoon..idk.

Here is a movie for your ears, a trip from Brisbane to Sydney circa 1978. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Pretty accurate! Vale Jimmy Dibble.

Okay on the computer now....

Well at least you have plenty of time to think.
Pretty exciting and a BIG change if it happens.

Maybe look into outskirts around Brisbane, Gold Coast or Sydney unfortunately ALL 3 can be hot, but you will acclimatise.

Sorry haven't done the Snowy Mountains yet, it's on my list to do a week horse ride over them. if you could make that work it would probably feel more like home.

1. Re - Brisbane, also add the suburb of Logan as a NO. High crime, low lying so it floods, but hey it's got an IKEA.
2. Don't do Ipswich (near Brisbane) its a hot strange little shithole, but hey it's kinda almost getting a Costco


The Sunshine Coast is about an hour from Brisbane and also has an airport, less busy than the Coolangatta but still a pretty good airport.

There is also the Sunshine Coast Hinterlands, lovely lifestyle up there, mountain living with ocean views.
(we don't get away much because of the farm, but if we can the sunshine coast hinterland is usually it, it's only a 2 & 1/2 hour drive from the farm,
the mountains and the rentals are lovely and the beach (lots of them) are only 45 mins to an hour away.

Rural in Queensland is Toowoomba, this is much closer to home for me. I know Toowoomba has lots of good schools to chose from. I did a few years Boarding there for school.
Brisbane will be over an hours drive away.
Toowoomba also now has a good sized airport, so there is that.
Its called the Garden City.
Totally different feel to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
Toowoomba is well..... *thinking* it's largish, and has everything you would need and expect, without being too big of a city.
and it's got more of a "country people" feel to it.... as in people off the land.
You want to shoot roos... you will find plenty of peeps that will have a relative living on the land. Or wild Pig shooting - that kind of thing is just a drive outta town. Toowoomba is the "edge" leave Toowoomba to the west and you drive straight into farming pretty much.
No beaches and no snow though.
Doesn't get the humidity that the other places get.
**Toowoomba is on the list to get incoming "refugees" so far they seem to behave themselves, and integrate well. Shit they love to eat at "Nando's" though not sure what'a up with that. LoL

If you like to camp and the great outdoors you will love Australia!
remember the snakes are (usually) just afraid of you as you are of them.
and you might even get a cool Yowie (bigfoot) story to tell the family back home.