Thanks for all that info Tali.

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.