Raven, my gf said the same thing when I told her!! She grew up on the farm next door to DH and they were best friends, and she can't understand why we would go back!! I can understand once they get to teenage years possibly, I mean, my DH had to come to Melbourne for uni and at the time my parents had moved to their own treechange and I stayed in Melbourne and went to uni, living in share houses etc.

Kim - The driving is a big one and wonder how much worse it will get once school hits. Now we just have swimming and kinder.

PRM - Thanks hun, we know the kids will love it, Iz comments every time we go down that it is really really quiet at nana and pa's place and that there alot of trees! They have a covenanted block in the middle of dairy farms and it's all Aussie bush!