Possible Sydney relocation!

Possible Sydney relocation!

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Mattt

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16,662 posts

223 months

Wednesday 7th November 2012
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Possibility that I'll be moving to Sydney from Brisbane with work, might be fairly immediate too.

Project is in the Moorebank area, but office is near the Harbour Bridge, but guess I'll be 95% project based.

I'd be looking for a house or flat share initially until the OH moves out middle of next year - although I need 2 car parking spaces!

Any recommendations for areas, or anything else I should know?

Colonial

13,553 posts

210 months

Wednesday 7th November 2012
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Budget?


Mattt

Original Poster:

16,662 posts

223 months

Wednesday 7th November 2012
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I currently pay 300pw to share a flat in Brisbane so hopefully similar.

Mattt

Original Poster:

16,662 posts

223 months

Thursday 8th November 2012
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Bump

Colonial

13,553 posts

210 months

Friday 9th November 2012
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Parking is going to be your issue in the areas I'd suggest.

1 you can manage, 2 might be a problem.

What do you value? is it just a place to crash or do you want to be close to the action, close to the beach?

Mattt

Original Poster:

16,662 posts

223 months

Friday 9th November 2012
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Not worried about beach, but close to some bars/restaurants would be good - not lots of clubs etc though

Google [bot]

6,686 posts

186 months

Friday 9th November 2012
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Inner west is what you want, kinda inbetween both. I pay $600/week for a 3-bed townhouse, garage, double drive, all mod cons, good transport links, blah blah. PM me if you want specifics.

Hitch78

6,117 posts

199 months

Friday 9th November 2012
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Any idea of the shower gel situation out there?

Currently mulling a potential move to Sydney from Dubai myself. Work is in North Sydney which I understand to be an actual district rather than a general area. Everyone I know keeps telling me about how expensive Sydney is!

Mattt

Original Poster:

16,662 posts

223 months

Friday 9th November 2012
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Shower gel is surprisingly easy to find in Australia.

Genks

75 posts

142 months

Friday 9th November 2012
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Hitch78 said:
Any idea of the shower gel situation out there?

Currently mulling a potential move to Sydney from Dubai myself. Work is in North Sydney which I understand to be an actual district rather than a general area. Everyone I know keeps telling me about how expensive Sydney is!
North Sydney is literally that, a suburb just over the bridge from the CBD, the rest of the suburbs over the bridge are collectively known as the Northern Suburbs.


jintysbhoys

1 posts

142 months

Sunday 11th November 2012
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Northern subs are nice and yes, Sydney is as expensive as London, perhaps a little more so now. (Im from up North,so don't hold that against me :-)) I go over every year for 6 months as both my boys live there. A one bedroom flat in say Neutral bay, Cremorne, etc will cost around $450.550 per week if you go further to Manly or any beach area withing a 5k of the CBD it will cost more, a little further out towards Ryde etc will be cheaper but take longer to get to the city. Would love to take my car over as it gets little use here, but after looking at the forum here, its not to be as (A) I am not resident and (B) its too expensive.

cinquecento

555 posts

230 months

Sunday 11th November 2012
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Matt,

Assume you will need a lock up garage for the cars..rather than a car port?. Check your insurance policy if you must have one.

A lock up garage will add a few more dollars to the bill.

Hasbeen

2,073 posts

226 months

Monday 12th November 2012
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If you are going to have to get out to Moorebank mostly, it might be worth looking somewhere west of Liverpool. Nice country air, & a reasonably pleasant drive, except for getting to the city, & there's trains for that.

I used to have a stretch of the road from Liverpool to Wallacia, where I used to tune my Morgan when I was racing it in the 60s. If it would accelerate from 40MPH to 110MPH, on a straight stretch from a cross road to a bridge, it was going well. Great speed limits in those days.

I tried living near work, & living near my playground, [the motor race tracks] & found it nicer being close to play. Give it a thought.

MudwiG

283 posts

269 months

Wednesday 21st November 2012
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Take a look at Wollstonecraft, Neutral Bay, North Sydney, Kirribilli is also nice.

They are all 10-15 bus or train to the Central Business district and are more residential so you get parking more easily.

I pay $510 per week split between 2 people and have a 2 bedrom unit and parking space for that in Wollstonecraft.

If you go Eastern suburbs such as Bondi, Cogee and Tama etc the prices will fly up!

anonymous-user

59 months

Wednesday 21st November 2012
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I would highly recommend Neutral Bay, Its pretty affordable although quite a bit more expensive than Brisbane, My apartment cost $550 per week for a 2 bedroom with great views and only a 2 minute walk to the Bus stop where there's regular buses to North Sydney taking 5 minutes and Wynyard (CBD) which takes 10 mins in rush hour. I did have a garage but the entrance ramp was too steep for the MX5 and the garage door was too low for the Volvo but there was loads of on street parking and its a really safe and quiet suburb.

Mattt

Original Poster:

16,662 posts

223 months

Monday 3rd December 2012
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Suppose I should update this thread.... I'm here!

Hotel until end of January, when I need to find my own place. Will look into above suggestions, thanks!