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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77335071 Australia 02/21/2019 11:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Rural in Queensland is Toowoomba, this is much closer to home for me. Never thought I'd see a poster from Toowoomba here. I used to live at Esk ages ago. Lovely quiet place and would go to Toowoomba often. Much preferred going there than Ipswich which was just as long but in the other direction. Semi rural towns in Australia are awesome. Especially if you can work remotely online. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 64890241 Australia 02/21/2019 11:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Rural in Queensland is Toowoomba, this is much closer to home for me. Never thought I'd see a poster from Toowoomba here. I used to live at Esk ages ago. Lovely quiet place and would go to Toowoomba often. Much preferred going there than Ipswich which was just as long but in the other direction. Semi rural towns in Australia are awesome. Especially if you can work remotely online. Small world. I am an a hour or so north west of Toowoomba close to the Bunya mountains. Had lunch in Esk last time we had to go to Brisbane, Still a lovely quiet town. Cafe served me a monster of a meal! I agree rural has its own unquie lifestyle here in Oz. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77143455 United States 10/13/2021 03:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Rural in Queensland is Toowoomba, this is much closer to home for me. Never thought I'd see a poster from Toowoomba here. I used to live at Esk ages ago. Lovely quiet place and would go to Toowoomba often. Much preferred going there than Ipswich which was just as long but in the other direction. Semi rural towns in Australia are awesome. Especially if you can work remotely online. Been there Toowoomba is in the bush a long way from Brisbane Ipswich is much closer and still in the bush, but much more accessable and developed as old historical port town for the Lockyer and Downs |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77143455 United States 10/13/2021 03:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Okay on the computer now.... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64890241 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. I've visited Toowoomba is full of country people but rampant deros Ipswich is a great country town close to Brisbane with good mix of industry farming and access to coasts and Brisbane and Toowoomba The strangest thing there I found were over-friendly people. You might be confusing "shithole" with Brisbane which has really got some problems with drug use and very shoddy planning issues. The traffic and design were not fit for purpose. But then again, if you are running a narrative for pr shill purposes to promote Toowoomba or Brisbane, you did gud. Nah, you did bad. |