Moving From Brisbane to Melbourne

LHazzB on 21/06/2022 - 10:26
Last edited 23/06/2022 - 09:04 by 1 other user

Would love to hear experience from those who moved from small city Brisbane to Melbourne .

Which area is better and to live and what's better for kids education and opportunities.

Surely we gonna miss surfers and sunny coast. What are you experience or is it more better things?

And please if anyone can shed some light on which suburb are better to move to for renting a home from safety prospective and rentals or buying home.

Addition** - Best suburb (around 600's range)within 30-40 mins drive to city.
Preferable south west/ north west/ North

Thanks for yours time for advice/suggestions which would help us make better decision.

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Comments

  • Xistn on 21/06/2022 - 10:27
    +18

    Don't, stay.

    • HazzB on 23/06/2022 - 09:08

      Are you in Melbourne?

  • 87percent on 21/06/2022 - 10:32
    +6

    think you should have that L plate on your username for a bit longer…

  • bohn on 21/06/2022 - 10:33
    +12

    I'd love to move to Brisbane/QLD from Melbourne!

    • Fergy1987 on 21/06/2022 - 10:35
      +7

      house swap with OP?

  • SF3 on 21/06/2022 - 10:36
    +2

    Another how long is a piece of string post, that is looking for a "silver bullet" answer.

  • Jason Genova on 21/06/2022 - 10:39
    +4

    just remember any future outbreak and you'll be locked down like caged animals

    • markathome on 21/06/2022 - 10:48
      +2

      It's helpful to hear some anger about this and Labor's handling of it. In parts of the Twittersphere, you get the feeling you're the only one who had a bad experience of the lockdowns. Wasn't political or anti-Labor three years ago - but I am now.

      And yes I absolutely accept, ScoMo messed up too. But NSW was locked down for half as many days as Victoria and ScoMo was Prime Minister of both states.

      • Drakesy on 21/06/2022 - 12:01
        +9

        Lets not forget the Ruby princess though and Gladys locking down lower socioeconomic areas while the northern beaches and Bondi were allowed to gallavant around with Covid ;) NSW was hardly a gold standard.

    • payton on 21/06/2022 - 10:54
      -1

      Dan Andrew's cheer squad seemed to enjoy being caged like animals
      not sure if stockholm syndrome or if Dan is the new Mao Ze Dong, the latter caused deaths of tens of millions of people and birds yet still have a cult following

  • iNeed2Pee on 21/06/2022 - 10:43
    +9

    Nicest places to live in Melbourne:
    Jacana, Dallas, Coolaroo, Broadmeadows and Meadow Heights.

    Avoid areas like Toorak, Brighton, South Yarra. They are fairly seedy……

    • 87percent on 21/06/2022 - 11:12

      don't forget those dodgy places like Hawthorn, Camberwell.. never felt so unsafe when walking down Glenferrie Road!

      • SupeNintendoChalmers on 21/06/2022 - 21:12
        +2

        I was just walking down Glenferrie road a few hours ago for the first time in 4 years, was shocked to see heaps of homeless people with mattresses strewn across retail walkways.

    • freefall101 on 21/06/2022 - 11:45
      +1

      I've been looking for a house in the north, I love setting the price/size/etc and looking at the map and watching broadmeadows light up like someone set it on fire (because they probably did) because it seems about 30% cheaper than the rest of Melbourne.

      I keep thinking to myself "it can't be that bad" then I go check a house out there. It is indeed that bad.

      • soan papdi on 21/06/2022 - 11:55
        +1

        Glenroy wanted to be the Toorak of the North apparently. Still a long way to go.

      • brendanm on 21/06/2022 - 19:08
        +2

        This is one of those times I'd love to see who has negged, just imagine the sort of person who can't recognise blatant satire.

  • djones145 on 21/06/2022 - 10:45
    +5

    one question
    the weather forecast for today is snow, hail, rain, sun, cloudy, fog and wind

    how do u feel?

    also in Brisbane, do you think 25 degrees is cold and you bring out the snow gear?

    u do know Melbourne is 4 seasons in one day and winter is COLD! lolz

  • big1964 on 21/06/2022 - 10:57
    +3

    Ask Bec Judd she would recommend Brighton as a good suburb!!

  • pharkurnell on 21/06/2022 - 11:18
    +2

    Surely we gonna miss surfers and sunny coast

    Get used to 364 days of rain and hideous traffic jams, and a freeway thats been a work in progress for 30 years and still aint finished.

    • Donaldhump on 21/06/2022 - 12:14

      you have freeways, dam your lucky

      • pharkurnell on 21/06/2022 - 12:15
        +5

        Known as the Monash carpark… thus why its free.

        • Donaldhump on 21/06/2022 - 12:16
          +1

          yeh we have train lines shaped like a wheel spokes. you want to go from gold coast to Ipswich/cleveland etc you need to travel for 4 hours.

  • slow on 21/06/2022 - 11:31
    -4

    Congratulations on escaping Hicksville, heat and humidity……

    • payton on 21/06/2022 - 12:41
      +3

      yes, please leave QLD and head to Melbourne, we'll thank you for it, cheers
      be together with your fellow greenies over there in your egalitarian multicultural utopia 👌

  • dogboy on 21/06/2022 - 11:45
    +8

    You poor bugger. Sorry to hear you have to move from paradise to that cold and miserable hellhole.

  • urahara on 21/06/2022 - 11:46

    Move to Newcastle

  • Drakesy on 21/06/2022 - 12:02
    +5

    Must be a masochist.

    High house prices
    Freezing weather
    Wet & dreary.

    • Boogerman on 22/06/2022 - 08:46
      +1

      "Wet & dreary"
      Sydney has double the annual rainfall of Melbourne & has less dry days over 20dg - so you can do more outside regularly in Melbourne than Sydney

      • CauseNEffect on 22/06/2022 - 15:48

        Sub tropical climate in Sydney means it get much heavier rainfalls. So gets most of ours in clumps then lots of sunny days.

        Melbourne the rain is far more frequent there's just less of it each time.

  • CauseNEffect on 21/06/2022 - 12:44
    +3

    Don't forget to learn Spanish.

    • yellowfever on 21/06/2022 - 21:08
      +2

      Why? There are more Greek, Mandarin, Viet and Italian speaking residents

      • CauseNEffect on 22/06/2022 - 14:05

        Victorians are Mexicans to the northern border states…. ;)

  • big1964 on 21/06/2022 - 16:27
    +3

    How much rainfall has Sydney had this year?Oh wait 1624 mm so far and it we ain’t at the 6 month mark

    Melbourne has had around 280 mm this year why do some people north of the border think that it rains down here all the time !!

    • bohn on 21/06/2022 - 17:03
      +1

      Usually Melbourne has more days with rain (but perhaps not much rainfall) compared to Sydney, which is why people tend to associate Melbourne with rain.

      Not sure how Melbourne compares to Sydney this year on rain days, but I have seen the stat in other years.

    • CauseNEffect on 22/06/2022 - 15:43

      Sydney has a sub tropical climate. Often when it rains, it pours down then there are several days of no rain.

      We are currently in the la Nina cycle and therefore above average rainfall, and extremes like this year are more likely with climate change…

      Sydney has a far more tolerable climate than Melbourne outside these extreme weather events.

      Melbournes climate of four seasons in a day including rain every other day is not even debatable.

      • big1964 on 22/06/2022 - 21:19

        I have lived down here in my life it doesn’t rain here “every other day” and yes it is debatable, Sydney is the second most wettest city in Australia after Darwin Melbourne is the 5 wettest city!!
        Whenever I meet people from Sydney over the years, the first question is where are you from I say Melbourne and the reply is oh it rains a lot down there doesn’t it!
        Sure the winter is cold not that much colder than Sydney and the weather is “changeable”here yes La Niña has been with us for a couple of years now but the average rainfall up there is still higher, in Sydney.

    • Ghost47 on 16/09/2022 - 11:48

      People are ignorant. But in saying that, it’s best not to shill Melbourne. Too many growing pains that are just going to get worse due to domestic and international migration.

      People should move to Adelaide and Perth instead.

  • WreckTangle on 21/06/2022 - 20:54
    +6

    I did this move once. M has less humidity, more culture & daylight savings. Brisbane was a cultureless hot hole.

  • jhaley3180 on 22/06/2022 - 08:49
    +4

    I love Melbourne as a city. I moved away for work about 12 years ago, but am regularly back visiting. I love the hot summers, just wish the winters were a fraction warmer. I love the culture, the back alley dining, the sports, the choices… Sometimes you don't realise what you've got till you depart.

    That being said, places to live; well depending on where you work and how far you want to travel. I have a soft spot of the Mornington Peninsula. Frankston gets a bad wrap but it its a lovely city with some brilliant surrounding suburbs. Edithvale and Mordialloc if you want to be closer to city. If you want even closer, Malvern, Hawthorn but you're getting into support unaffordable now …..
    On the other side I actually think Werribee is brilliantly placed with Geelong not far down the road and I see I fair bit of suburban renewal combined with growth. That being said it's not on the same playing field as the South East.

  • 2esc on 22/06/2022 - 09:42
    +1

    I would only move back to Melbourne for a huge pay increase and I'm talking double or three times my wage the negatives outway the positives. Even then I doubt I would move.

  • happylime on 22/06/2022 - 10:49
    +3

    First, you need to narrow down the area you want to move to.

    Do some online research. Here are some useful sites:

    Visit your shortlisted places as a tourist. Visit a local shopping centre or/and main street.

    You will then be able to make the right decision.

    • HazzB on 23/06/2022 - 08:59

      Thanks for wonderful suggestions

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