Not too fussed about unis as we'd only be up there for 2 years max. DSD goes into Year 11 in Jan/Feb so she'd just have finished high school when we'd come back to Melbourne.
The way I see it is this - yes it would be a big adjustment for me after living in big cities (ie. London, Melbourne) for most of my life but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to really get ahead financially. So I would see it as an extended holiday. TBH even though I'm not a beach/hot weather person, I'm really good at entertaining myself and don't mind being home if the house is not complete chaos as ours is at the moment because it's too small. GIve me a nice house, with space and storage and I don't think I'd care too much about where I was living. And hey, on the money they're talking, I could fly down to Brisbane/Sydney twice a month if I was missing city life.
Then you do it!!!! I find the heat debilitating up there - but I survived working in air conditioned hospital and having air con... You will too! Life is short - do this and it will get you ahead!
Have you spent much time in the tropics? I was born in Bundaberg.... but I can't deal with the heat... actually the humidity is what I struggle with: it makes me feel like I have asthma or when it's really bad like before a cyclone I feel like I'm drowning... but that's just my body... it's very "Northern" (think northern hemisphere). But maybe you'd get used to it
I found that living up there things go mouldy. A few of my canvas paintings have been ruined by living in humid locations. I would recommend storing most of your things down here.
I won't go on about too many other negatives. Maybe you should just view it as an extended holiday... you'll won't want to spend the rest of your life wondering...
I also can't comment too negatively because I would miss you if you went! (And it's not about me)
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