where is the best place to live in australia?
Im 18 and am going to move there. I need relatively cheap rental and i want to live in a city but not a huge city. I would also prefer to live near the beach.
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Melbourne, i guess is a good place,
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sydney. I can't tell you from experience about the other cities as I've lived in sydney my whole life. It's not that big a place, you can find decent rent even in these hard economic times (you just have to do a bit of research beforehand) and the beaches aren't too far away either. All the best!
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Geelong. That is on the coast, only 40mins from Melbourne and is a good size
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Albury its cute kinda big but not as big:)
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Perth will be a good idea. Its a small city which has easy access to the beaches.
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There are too many choices to offer an opinion really. But here goes. I live in Western Sydney which is nowhere near the beach, the closer you get, the more expensive. You are going to have to consider what temperature you feel comfortable living in, believe me it will make the difference between getting out and doing things and spending life in front of the a/c drained of energy because of the heat. Perth would be my pick though, people are flocking there at the moment, but remember, it is the most isolated state capital city in the world, so it takes ages to go anywhere by plane, but it does have the same weather as Sydney. Sydney is overpopulated, and unbearably hot Dec-March, also there is so much development going on, people are selling thier little houses on thier big blocks of land built in the 50's and developers are knocking them down and putting up huge apartment complexs in thier place, which personally breaks my heart. Brisbane is even hotter and in my opinion is just Sydney without the Opera House and Bridge and our harbour. If you can put up with a bit of heat, the Gold Coast is great, about an hour drive from Brisbane, you can get a good rental deal there because alot of people have bought investment properties there, and now there is a big oversupply, gorgeous beaches, pretty young population but very touristy though. If i could live anywhere in Aus, I'd move to Tassie in a minute, if i couldnt live in Perth, everything is still green there, we have been on water restrictions for ten years, everybodies plants and lawns are dead and brown. For you, I'd suggest definately somewhere near or just outside Brisbane, Melbourne or Adelaide I'd think. Only come to Sydney if you want to party by the harbour. Forget all about Darwin unless you want to spend your life with fan and a bottle of drink permanently in hand, waiting for the next cyclone/hurricane to destroy your house. Australia has been a wonderful place to live in overall, we Aussies very proud of our quirky little country, and as long as you remember to give out the occasional "G'day", you will be fine.
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Melbourne.
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Tasmania is good if you can handle cool to cold weather. Australia is not a real cheap place anymore unless you go where no man wants to go and that's not usually near a beach.
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If you want to live in a Capital City near a beach then you'll want good warm weather, so that rules out Melbourne and Hobart. But then you want it to be cheap, So that rules out Sydney and Perth. That leaves you with Adelaide, Darwin and Brisbane. Adelaide would be far cheaper for accomadation near the beach and Brisbane itself is a not exactly on the beach anyway, and Darwin has too many crocodiles.. Your choices would be better if you look at non-capital cities like Broome, Karratha, Geraldton, Mandurah, Bunbury, Cairns, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle, Woolongong, Whyalla, Ceduna. I wouldn't go any further south because the weather is too cold.
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Well Australia is a pretty suburban place, so even being in a big city doesn't mean you are in a crowded place. Sydney used to be the economic capital of Australia with most head offices located here. It is also one of the most expensive cities to live in. However you can live outside and commute (such as those people living in the beautiful blue mountains). Melbourne on the other hand is the cheapest big city in the world to live in. Good transport and many businesses are choosing Melbourne of Sydney. However Melbourne seem to be a bit up themselves because they are the number 2 city and feel insecure about it. Brisbane and surrounding area is nice, with the gold coast part of the metro rail system and the sunshine coast also not far away. Smaller cities on the beach include Wollongong, Newcastle and Geelong. But from an international point of view, these places are more like gloried country towns. But they are close enough the big cities to get you the best of both worlds. Adelaid and Perth are nice cities but far from anywhere else. I grew in Townsville, a lovely tropical city where people go to travel and never leave (in fact it is such a friendly city, people have suffered all sort of problems travelling townsville and they can say is how friendly townsville people are>
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id suggest brisbane...big enough but cheap com paritive to sydney...i wouldn'ty live in a country town because they r too small and u woin't find employment easily enough!...go brisbane!...beaches and tropical!
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The Blue Pill has good advice! I would pick Tasmania too. I went their for a holiday for a month and it was the best, so beautiful. It's the right amount of busy and peaceful... and I'm a big nature nut and Tassie is full of it. You can drive from the top of Tassie to the bottom in about three hours, so any city you live in wont be huge! There are some historical places too like Port Arthur... If I were you I would visit the website of each city to find out what they offer.
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COnsider Brisbane because it's near Queensland and in Queensland, Gold Coast is the best place to stay because of the wonderful beaches there. As a matter of fact, the water is clear and also many clubs there.
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maybe Adelaide, its cheap, and has beaches, and is quite small, My fav is Brisbane
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