I'm Bendigo born and Bred.
I live about an hour out, but head in every sinlge week.
I read something in one of our local papers/mags yesterday that said that Bendigo was named by UNICEF as Australia's first Child friendly city.
I don't mind Bendigo. It has everything. It's close enough to all regional centres and only 1.5 hrs from Melb along the freeway.
It's still got a bit of a country feel about it.
I'd love to have a BB friend nearby
Just wanted to add, if you want to know anything at all about the area, feel free to ask me
Happy to help
I live in a country town and i dont think i'd handle the 'city life' very well lol.
Oh and a bonus too - our kids are the same age Logan is June 07 and Bella is Feb 09!
Whats the weather like most of the time?
I'm a country bumpkin at heart too. I can't stand big cities! I nearly moved to geelong before we had kids.
The weather is pretty good. It gets a bit warmer than Melb most of the time, but only a few degrees. Night's are generally a little cooler.
Where are you from?
I love Bendigo such a nice place to live. I lived there for 3 years while at uni. I have a few friends who live there with kids and really like living there as its big enough a place without being melbourne size.
we're an hour away from bendigo, it's alright, i go in town each second week, and ballarat the other weeks in between.
Our latest discovery is that there is no JB hifi there! Ballarat has one but.
The hospital has left a lot to desire for us. Treated us like crap, and told us we had no option but to go all the way to melb for birth, and wouldnt even share care with melb so we'd be travelling to melb for the entire pregnancy! All because we live just outside their catchment area. Plus they stuffed up our 19 week ultrasound, wouldnt show me a thing, screwed up the photo cd so the images were all completely unreadable, and refused to accept our complaint. And to top it off the social worker kept insisting i drink beers with my man every day! Whilst pregnant!
But if you are thinking of having any more children, our beautiful midwife hails from bendigo, her name is Helen Sandner, and she's just wonderful!
You should like easter time too, havent seen it myself for years but there is the chinese parade and all the chinese dragons are amazing, the kids will love it!
Sorry you had a bad experience Phynna. I had 2 wonderful experiences at the public hospital and I'm outside catchment area.
RR if you have a look on the real estate website, it will show you most of the properties for rent and for sale. I can tell you which parts of town you'd probably want to head away from.
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