)Hi again Jules,No never been to oz before and have never wanted to go somewhere so much in my life! can't wait although the very thought of uprooting is a killer! But worth the pain! You're right about the zillions of schools to choose from, it was quite easy for us as we wanted to be on the coast side of Brissie, and also my 8 year old requires some learning support in school, and when we decided that we liked the look of alex hills, we liked the name as it's scottish and how close it was to the coast, when we looked at schools we discovered the alex hills state school has a whole learning support building with the lot (occupational therapists, physiotherapists etc etc) that just finalised everything for us, it seems so perfect. Finally we decided against an agent as my sister in law and her husband are already in Brisbane and they used an agent, spent a fortune and said in the end they wished the hadn't bothered as they felt they done most of it themselves. So we are on out todd as they say.

Can't wait to get there. Hope this helps you make a few decisions.

Keep in touch and all the best