Moving to Australia, what cities to consider other than Melbourne or Sydney?

subaby · #1 (**permalink**) 3rd March 2009, 03:00 PM

Hello all,

i'd moving to australia with my husband by the end of this year as immigrants. Could anyone tell me which would be the best city for us to work and settle?

Melbourne and Sydney are cities which we would not consider as the cost of living is expensive.

We are keen on moving to either Brisbane or Adelaide.Could anyone tell us the climate and cost of living like grocery prices, transport, electricity, shopping, entertainment details please.

surekha

Arunarc · #2 (**permalink**) 4th March 2009, 04:43 AM

Hello Surekha
Welcome to indusladies community.
You have not included rent here, it will cost you around 1000 AUD per month, this is according to me. You can wait for other members to come and answer you and give you more details. Both these places are some what same, just here and there slight difference. Adelaide is a bit costlier then brisbane.

anlalitha · #3 (**permalink**) 10th March 2009, 10:36 PM

Hi surekha,

I'll go with aruna. U have to rent a house out of city for a low rent as the rent in city will be more.

The temperature in brisbane is just the same as Hyderabad. Since u r from Hyd, u will find it good.

U better buy a car when u are settled here as transportation with a car is cheaper here when compared to the amount u spend on taxi or trains or buses, as the gas is just a dollar.

U can find good indian shops almost at all suburbs, so there'l be no issues on ur grocery.

Just wait for the others to reply and take a good and wise decision.

All the best.
lalitha shyam

subaby · #4 (**permalink**) 11th March 2009, 04:26 PM

thanx so much lalitha

, tht wd give me a brief idea. I think initially i'll have to struggle a lill maybe until we afford to buy a car. I was really worried abt the availability of indian spices. I've been surfing a lot of websites for this. Any link tht you cld provide me or would you be able to give me a break up of grocery prices for an indian household?

what should be an average househld salary for us if we move to brisbane? keeping in mind, the expenditure on food, rent, shopping, entertainment and also sending money back home here?

There are so many things to think of, I'm getting very tensed up. Both my hus and I work for HSBC BPO here, we are keeping our fingers crossed that we should get a job at HSBC there.

surekha