Would you ever consider...

[~Saram~]

Dh and I have done three big moves (within QLD but about 1000km each time) I love it. I love moving to a new town and exploring a new region esp if it is somewhere remote/has tourist attractions etc.

We have been lucky though as DH job pays entirely for every move including paying stamp duty and other costs involved in us selling our houses. Not sure if we would do it if we had to cover expenses ourselves

[PinkPalace]

Mel - you know how i feel on moving at the drop of a hat (4 houses in 2 different states in 2 year lol!!!)...

but i dont think i could sell everything and start afresh. I think i love my furniture pmsl!

but if it was for an amazing opportunity (ie work with heaps of $$)... then sure!. but if it was so i could live there and it would cost me over $10-15 k to move and re buy everything probably not.

Even to tassy i would consider shipping it there in a container.

[Arimeh]

haha nah not brave - maybe stooopid.. lol

I figure you guys are my friends - so it doesn't matter where I live, cos I can annoy each and every one of you whenever I want

I would desperately love to move to Tassie - I just suggested NZ to DH cos its so much like Tassie.. bwahahahaha..

But I would love my dad to meet my kids before he dies

PP - I'm not too attached to anything really in my house - its just stuff.

[Visitor8]

Tassie yes yes yes yes yes

NZ no no no no no

[Phteven]

Yep, the more distance between me and the IL's the better.

[Nicambhar]

We often daydream about moving to Tassie. With my current shyte fight situation on the go, you just may see my location change all of a sudden.

[Jahzara]

Tassie is nice - but very cold atm. Summer isnt too bad.

I can understand why you would want to live near your Dad.

We have never had an interest in going to NZ so we wouldnt move there but i have heard its nice.

[Willow]

Not while the kids are so young. Just before DS was born we were looking at the possiblity of moving to Canada for DH's work. After he was born I realised how glad I was we hadn't moved because I needed a support system....I agree with Brontide 100% on the inlaws thing but unfortunately, most of the time the only person I have to help out with the kids is MIL.

We do eventually want to move up the coast, but nothing as drastic as o/s.

[Arimeh]

Tassie is nice - but very cold atm. Summer isnt too bad.

PMSL.. I know.. I was born there (but don't tell anyone I'm a Tasmanian born Queenslander!! shhhhh...

Mel - find DH a job and a nice place for us to live then

Sue - yahhhh lets all move there!!!!!

Brontide - hmmm.. thats not my motivation at all...
hehehehe

[Jahzara]

[QUOTE=Arimeh;1864158]PMSL.. I know.. I was born there (but don't tell anyone I'm a Tasmanian born Queenslander!! shhhhh...

Woops ! Sorry - thought you might have just heard nice things about the place.
Didnt realise that you were born here !

Woops !

Funnily enough, we lived on the Sunshine Coast for 6 years and moved back here when we started having kids to be with family. We miss the Coast terribly. Love the climate and the lifestyle. Thinking about heading back there in a few years.

Its a small world !

[fionas]

Yes, I would consider it. I like change.

Mind you, it seems to have become a full-time hobby of mine to think about moving and unfortunately DP is not much help as he really doesn't mind where he lives.

We've both done big moves before (me to Aus from the UK) and he to the US (before we met) and back again so the big move doesn't really faze us too much.

[luna moth]

Yeah, for sure - When DH was looking for a postdoc position, we considered everything: Boston, Cambridge, Bangalore, Lille, Auckland....

And we ended up in Brisbane.
Depending how things go, we might well be on the move again in a couple of years. We'll never end up in Tassie, unless it's as cliched retirees running a B & B, but I am OK with that. Some friends of mine have just done it, two months out from birth of first child, packed up to go to Tassie, because it's cheaper there and she'll be able to stay home for longer. And the community is very strong down there. I guess it has to be, when you're all cousins...

[Maruschke]

And the community is very strong down there. I guess it has to be, when you're all cousins...

[AngelPunks]

If you find a house with a granny flat Mel I'll come down with you

[luna moth]

If you find a house with a granny flat Mel I'll come down with you

A friend of mine has a house in Hobart, and he seriously wanted to rent out the house and just live in his shed. Not do it up into a granny flat, just keep it as a shed. His girlfriend was not so keen, though.

[Rouge]

We've toyed with the idea of going to Canada, or even the US. And its still on the cards. We wouldn't sell everything though. We'd probably sell some stuff and keep the rest in storage. It is something we definitely want to do before the kids finish school, just for one year to give them some worldly experience.

[Nelle]

Oh yeah Tasmania, I seriously looked into moving there, but I couldn't see many jobs in dh's line and when faced with reality, couldn't even afford the trip over for a holiday.

I've heard that Tassie's can have a thing against mainlanders, but fair's fair, we do give our share of crap to them! And perhaps I've only heard from people with bad experiences, all the Tassies I know are lovely - may be different to actually live there, but it may not!

[Visitor8]

lol we don't have a thing about mainlanders :P It's all jokes, just like the 2 heads thing

Tassie is beautiful!! It's gotta be one of the only places you can walk outside and see the snow, then walk 5 minutes down the road to the beach then decide that bushwalking is what you wanna do and go from the beach. It's seriously gorgeous here. I remember the drive from the boat in absolute awe at the mountains and the green! I was from cement city so it was very new to me, so hilly and perfect.

Mel YOU find DH a job, and I'll tell you that you can get a house here where I am, 30 minute drive from Launceston city for $200 a week near the beach