Yes, DO go on, Div!
Curly - you raise a point that had been bothering me...restaurants!! There's a Chinese in Korumburra...that's about as ethnic as it gets, I think! Again, correct me if I'm wrong I drove through Dandy the other day and it all came flooding back from my childhood there - the infinitely diverse cuisine in one place, and I'm sure I had eaten most of it by the time I was 18. What am I depriving my kids of?? We'll definitely have to make special trips into town for some Nepalese, Vietnamese, Afghan etc...I think visits to my inner city friends will bring us close enough to Brunswick St to satisfy the palate every couple of months.
I can't comprehend the not having enough to do in Melb, though - that one's confounding me!
I love that I was born in Carlton, spent formative years by the sea, rest of my childhood in a huge migrant population and my adulthood so far nestled in the hills. As much as I want to raise country kids, they won't know the rich beauty Melbourne has to offer quite the way I do. Ach, well, they get their very own story, I suppose. And they'll probably move right back to Melbourne, anyway, at least for a little while when they spread their wings
Oh, Fiona, you got me feeling bittersweet about this move...just when I thought I'd reconciled it all!