[Cherish]

Ringarooma is cheap cos its rural.
Personally I love it
http://m.realestate.com.au/listsearchview....mParkingSpaces=

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If you need a lot of GP support I'd be ringing around there too, a lot of practices aren't taking new patients. That may also influence where you look

[samshine]

As someone who lived in Queenstown and Zeehan for 6 years of my childhood, I would advise avoiding the west coast. It's very isolated. My mum struggled a lot when we first moved there, we spent the first year driving 4 hours on awful roads each way on the weekend to get back to Hobart. While she ended up loving it, and we had a pretty good early childhood there, when it came to high school and education options we left again.

While there are not many places as cheap as there, there are areas that are still cheap but closer to better services. Wynyard, Ulverstone as mentioned by PPs are lovely.. If you need access to specialist services, however, as a nurse I would suggest being closer to Hobart. There are some lovely towns in the Huon.

It also depends on where you come from. If you are coming from a city interstate you may still struggle in some of these places! When we returned from living overseas (and interstate before that) we went to Hobart and found that difficult enough at first. But that was pre-children, and if you are particularly looking for the quiet life I guess you're ready for that

You will definitely get something for $500 per week, even if you decided not to go rurally! Good luck OP

[Party of 5]

Derwent Valley is nice

http://www.newnorfolk.org/

http://www.realestate.com.au/rent/in-7140/list-1

[kriattica]

I live on the West Coast and dont feel isolated at all. Its just under 2 hours to Burnie or around 3 to Hobart, the road to Burnie is much nicer to drive than to Hobart. Cheap rent. Petrol is about 4cents a litre dearer than Hobart. The Supermarket has everything we need and anything it doesnt we stock up on when we head away.

All in all I think wherever you live is what you make, we have been here for a couple of years now and I like the close knit community and the community spirit that the West Coast has and we havent found that anywhere else we have lived. We choose to live here so that we are together as a family and my DH isnt doing drive in/drive out for work.


This post has been edited by kriattica: 02/03/2012, 10:11 PM

[Cherish]

Move to ringarooma and enrol in the school, you might just be enough numbers to save us from closure!! It is a fantastic school!