Costs of moving interstate, is this to little or to much?
We are thinking of moving to melbourne from the NT in one to two years, and in order to know how much we need to save I have costed the expenses out (well the ones I can think of). I just want arough idea if these sound right to you and if I have missed anything out. I have costed both flying over and transporting the car and driving over in our car. Also which method have you done and what would you reccomend? TIA
To fly: Flights for 2 adults, one child, and one infant: $755.01
Car hire two weeks: $700
Up to 2 weeks accomodation in caravan park: $1500
Transporting car: $607
Total: $2647
To Drive: 2 tanks or petrol a day @$80 a tank for 5 days: $800
Accomodation @$120 a day for 5 days $600
food @$70 a day for 5 days $350
Contingency $400
Accomodation for 2 weeks in caravan park $1500
Total: $3650
The accomodation in caravan park is dependent on if we secure a rental prior to arriving in melbourne. We also think we can do the drive in 4 days but added an extra one just in case.
Removalists: up to $4000
New bond: $1600
2 weeks rent in advance: $800
We figure between $8000 to $10000 should do it. Am I being overly cautious or seriously underestimating? We will also be moving with 2 children under 3 as well.
I'll have a look at backloading but most moves from here are done by container and trained over I think. Have no idea yet, if DP gets a job transfer he will be based in brunswick, but no way we can afford there.
I have moved interstate three times in 4 years (NT --> SA (moved Adeliade to RUral there too with a 4 week old bub)-->WA
I am afraid to say the removalists are hugely expensive. In 2006 I moved Adelaide to Dawin with about 1/3 house full of stuff for $2000
I have blocked it from my memory how much it was to move to WA almost 2 years ago but LOTS. And we sold most of what we had before we moved, because it was cheaper that way. They really sting for NT too, less trucks
I imagine that you might find those costs more, especially if you have a whole house. If we had time we were looking at driving a rental truck ourselves, or a furniture tralier.
The gOod news, I drove from Melbourne to Alice in 2 days so 4 will be fine! ANd I don't thinik you'll use that much fuel. We probably filled up 4 times.
A cheaper option might be to do a relocation. They often have them at backpackers around ALice where you get a limited time to relocate a hire car or campervan in a few days adn they pay for fuel.
Good luck
i cant really say how much to move a whole house worth of stuff but we have had a few things brought up from where DP used to live in sydney to qld and it always costs a few hundred to backload a few items so i can only imagine a house worth of stuff would be stacks. sorry
we just moved half an hour away and it cost us $550!
good luck
HI muminalice, If your DH's company transfers him, most company's offer 'relocation assistance' to help with the cost of moving. Some companies will pay for all moving expenses. Have you looked into what your DH's company offers?
Just to be pedantic... you will need to eat regardless of whether you drive or fly, so that $350 is kinda neither here nor there!!
Thanks everyone for replying. All costs for removalists, car moving are actual quotes, though like you say they will probably go up on actual booking. Believe me closer to the time I will be double checking all prices!
Taurean: We drive a ford falcon wagon, and I was basing the cost on a tank of petrol here at around $1.46 a litre. I don't know how much I would get to a tank as we don't do any highway drving here
Tashybabe: Thanks for that, that kind of info is good to know.
Squidipa: We did the sea container thing over to here as well. Might do that again again as it is about $1000 cheaper, but they charge ten times more for storage.
Nickle: DP's company only transfers when they absolutely have to, like a depot losing bus runs (he works for greyhound buses and they just transferred some drivers from perth to darwin for example), so by transferring I meant applying for a position available in melbourne so unfortunately no relocation assistance to be had. At least if we do drive we have one person who is used to long distance driving.
Last edited by Little Chicken; July 26th, 2010 at 08:25 AM.
: adding reply to nickle
Another vote for containers. My parents used a container to move their gear over to Perth from Vic 2 years ago as that was the cheaper option by a long shot.
As for fuel, we used to have a Commodore wagon that would get about 500km to a tank on a good run. Your car would be very similar I'd say. The price/ltr you've based it on is very reasonable too. Fuel is expensive in the Alice, hey! You probably won't need it but there's a good website which shows fuel prices around Australia - motormouth . com . au
Costs of moving interstate, is this to little or to much?
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