Studying in Melbourne next semester - Housing Advice needed

**LittleGrizzly** · 05-20-2009, 13:17

Maybe you would have more luck in the frontroom or entrance hall ?

Backroom tends to be a more limited group...

**Papewaio** · 05-22-2009, 08:09

I would use the internet and look at the price of renting a place near the uni and then compare with the student digs. Often student digs are small/shared but very close to uni vs normal places which might be further away but bigger and more free.

Before moving to Sydney in 2000 (from Perth) I used Domain and a few other property sites to scope out where I was going to live.

For Victoria:
http://www.domain.com.au/Public/Choo...=buy&state=VIC

**Dîn-Heru** · 05-26-2009, 21:36

Originally Posted by Papewaio

I would use the internet and look at the price of renting a place near the uni and then compare with the student digs. Often student digs are small/shared but very close to uni vs normal places which might be further away but bigger and more free.

Before moving to Sydney in 2000 (from Perth) I used Domain and a few other property sites to scope out where I was going to live.

For Victoria:
http://www.domain.com.au/Public/Choo...=buy&state=VIC

Thank you the advice.

I must be getting senile, because I could have sworn that you lived in Melbourne before you moved to Sydney (which was the main reason I posted this in the Backroom), but now that you mention it I seem to remember that your location was Perth, Western Australia, Australia and so on, when I first joined.

**Papewaio** · 05-27-2009, 00:06

I've spent about 4 days in total in Melbourne. I liked the CBD, good coffee, plenty of nice food and the trams are cute.

Overall it was easy enough to get around, fairly flat and lots of nice things to do.

**pevergreen** · 05-27-2009, 00:13

Gah! Melbourne, Gah!

Greg is coming to Australia?

Excuse me, I'm just going to go book a trip to melbourne now.

You should come up to Brisbane at least. We do have the best beaches and the best weather. Melbourne is horrid at that time of year. Plus Brisbane has the most .Orgahs. Myself, sapi, other gameroom friends, Warluster and so on.

Well, we did have good beaches before the storms...

I was going to meet CaptainBlackadder, but he came down sick on the day. Awwwr.

**CountArach** · 05-27-2009, 00:50

Originally Posted by pevergreen

You should come up to Brisbane at least. We do have the best beaches and the best weather. Melbourne is horrid at that time of year.

I take exception at your remarks... except the one about Melbourne.

**Gregoshi** · 05-27-2009, 03:33

Originally Posted by pevergreen

Gah! Melbourne, Gah!

Greg is coming to Australia?

Excuse me, I'm just going to go book a trip to melbourne now.

You should come up to Brisbane at least. We do have the best beaches and the best weather. Melbourne is horrid at that time of year. Plus Brisbane has the most .Orgahs. Myself, sapi, other gameroom friends, Warluster and so on.

Melbourne is not a choice as June 8 to about July 17 is work for the wife - assuming things stay on schedule. The kids and I will probably be Melbourned out by the time she is done and ready to bolt the city. If Din-Heru isn't getting there until July 20, we may miss him unless the project runs long.

Here's hoping for a few days delay.

Brisbane is a pretty certain stop after that. In addition to a bunch of stuff to see in and around the city, a couple of my old Clan Doragon mates that I still maintain contact with live there (barocca being one) and I hope to meet them for the first time. It also looks like I need to set aside an Org Day.

I'm still not sure of an exact schedule. We'll probably just set an arrival and departure date (June 22 to July 29/30?) and worry about the inbetween once we get there and the wife's work schedule becomes clearer. However, I think we may very well spend 4-5 days in Brissie and vicinity sometime in the last two weeks of July. We'll probably go to New Zealand for another week on the way home. My daughter insists we must track down and see some butt ugly blue bird that lives there. And the Lord of the Rings movie geek in me wants to see MiddleEarth and isn't objecting too much.

**pevergreen** · 05-27-2009, 03:51

Wooh! When the time gets closer, I'll gather the 'clans' and it will probably only be me that turns up.

But every Orgah I meet is another I don't need to meet when I visit others.