I'd be inclined to go as close to there as you could afford, to reduce travelling time and increase family time?
:yeahthat: thanks for pointing that out Audax cause that's one thing we would like to see change in our current situation as DP drives at least 1hr & 30mins to get to work on the other side of Melb CBD, and the earliest he gets home 'some' nights is about 8.30ish if his lucky but most nights 9ish or later.

Of course like anyone i would love to keep rent as cheap as possible as compared to super cheap rental prices here in Ballarat anywhere else looks so damn expensive to us, lol.

CQ reckon your spot on there as i had a good look at some rental online last night and yeh looks like most places are up near $400 which i nearly had a head attack over even though DP did warn me of the figures as he had a peek the other night, ... cause here in Ballarat you could rent a nice 3brm home for $250 no kidding. With our house here in Ballarat ' if ' we did decide to rent it out i'm guessing we could get about $250-$260 for it (??).

With this moving adventure DP & i have to take into absolute serious consideration we don't send ourselves backwards financially in the long run therefore wouldn't be worth the move.

... Thanks heaps & heaps Fleur that's such a gorgeous offer (my lil' secret squirrel )

Thanks heaps for the very honest info ladies, ... please, please keep the ideas coming the more info the better for us