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Originally Posted by Daviedog
HI,
I am 33 and currently studying to become a primary school teacher (qualify in July 2008). Husband is a newsagent. Looking for options go getting out of the UK for a slower pace of life with more time to spend walking and chilling. Want to live somewhere warm - ish. WOuls love to live in a village commmunity again. Looking for ideas - not done any research yet as we are just considering our options - thought about Oz and Canada.
Thanks
D
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We're in South Australia and we are loving it.
We live in a community of about 25,000 people and it is a community. It can who you know rather than what you know that helps you here though.
I think that teachers are in demand in Australia but if you check out the "please read.." thread towards the top of the Australian forum that has a link for the skills in demand.
We live on the side of an extinct volcano (it really is extinct though
) and in the centre of it in a beautiful blue lake. It's lovely to walk around and if you prefer mountains there are the Grampians in Victoria nearby.
In the winter (we arrived in July) we only had frost once and it only lasted for about an hour. The warmer days if winter reminded me of summer in the UK!
The summer so far has been quite warm with a few days in late 30 degrees C and one over 40 (which is rare here).
If you choose Australia make sure that it's somewhere with water. Parts of Australia have had a drought for years and water is in short supply. The local firefighters have to take there own water if they are going to fight a fire in Victoria since Victoria (or the parts near us) don't have enough!
Where we are has plenty of water but we didn't think about that when we moved.
Regards,
Karen