I like Dubbo. We are 50kms out of town but I have lived in Dubbo before. I like the location of everything (Supermarket, work, schools, sporting activities etc) I like been able to get to everything quickly. Depending on what your kids do its got most things.
The biggest thing I guess is location to other places. I love shopping at Orange but its 150kms away. So by the time the kids are at school and I leave it only gives me 2hours there before I have to come home. To go to Sydney its a good 5plus hours not that we go there often but recently my daughter had surgery there so thats an expense when its not a day trip. If you want to visit family unless there close it is a long distance to go.
Housing is affordable compared to other places both to buy and rent. Well I think it is anyway and if you go out of town to the smaller towns again its even cheaper but then petrol here is dearer then closer to the Coast.
I certainly think there are alot of employment opportunities for Nurses and if your DH wants to get into management thats a real possibility within a few years (more $$ in management)
I imagine Tamworth, Wagga, Toowomba etc are in a similar position to Dubbo. Probably not as bad.
The rehab hospital in Dubbo Lordes (not sure if I spelt it right) has alot of jobs on offer also. I did some work experience years ago. Most of the patients are elderly and recovering from strokes but they do still have patients with brain/spinal injuries and patients recovering from GBS, amputee's, MS, etc.
I think DH is leaning more towards Tamworth, he likes the size of the town. Plus its a days drive back to sunshine coast where our families are - just in case something happens - our parents are getting on in years, so thats also one of the reasons Tassie got struck off the possibilities list - its far too expensive to just jump on a plane and come back if one of our parents were to have an accident (or worse!). Thought if we stuck to either NSW or Vic, at least we can drive home if necessary.
As someone else said, a lot of grads aren't getting positions and its a national issue. Nurse shortages usually relate to a shortage in senior experienced nurses. Kinda hard to get experience if you can't get a job though...
Once he has done his grad year, he is not likely to have trouble getting work in rehab. It's an area that struggles to retain staff for various reasons. I know my old work pretty much has permanent vacancies in rehab.
Dubbo is awesome Mel...only a three hour trip west to see me!!! In all seriousness though, it's a great central town, big enough, but not huge, with a pretty big hospy system.
Lourdes is the private/rehab hospital in Dubbo I may be biased, but I personally prefer Dubbz over Tamworth
MIL was in Lourdes for 6 months after a hip replacement & couldn't fault them in any way. The base definetely needs more GOOD nurses. Anywhere. Maternity was a mess last I spoke to anyone about it.
And Dubbo isn't a bad place to live. Pretty central to everything. Great range of schools, shopping is pretty good, its only another 4/5 hours past Tamworth
Thanks guys!!! I'm definitely attracted to the idea of moving somewhere new even though I would have to make new friends which I'm not very good at doing LOL
We live just out of Ballarat and they are always looking for nurses, there is the Ballarat Base Hospital (public) and the Queen Elizabeth Centre which is a rehab centre-both of these are run by Ballarat Health Services. Ballarat also has St John of God Hospital (Private) and very soon the town will also have a new Oncology Centre, so they will probably be looking for nursing staff when that opens.
As your from Tassie you would be able to handle Ballarat winters :-)
Check out the BHS website and also St John of God, I know there are always adds for the nurses bank as well.
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