86,000 Southerners to Move to QLD

They leave thougn when the honeymoon period of over. No jobs like Sydney or Melbourne and no family close by. Then there is the humidity

 

I’ve seen lots of people ( including my parents ) sell in Sydney and then regret it 5-6 years after.

So you stay in Sydney , weekender in the CC or mid north coast and buy a winterender in palm cove ....or maybe trinity , after all that has the medical Center.

Later on you need to be close to decent medical facilities

cliff

 

The classic case was when a lot of Victorians moved up and people in the 2000s boom. A lot moved back.

 

We've bought on the GC & will be moving there later this year.....but not selling in Sydney. It's nice to know that we have options to be able to do that, which many don't.

 

Sensible .

Sadly most people don’t have that option , but most people haven’t been members of somersoft / property chat for 15-20 years ...

cliff

 

Agree mate. However my guess is the vast majority of 'members' on this forum don't take much action, if any at all in order to get into a position such as the one @skater mentioned. I can't know for certain, but I'm confident in my guess.

My comments aren't made to diminish the fantastic resource PC is, but rather to suggest that most of the successful investors on PC quite likely before coming to PC already possessed a different mindset to the vast majority of members who are on this forum. Then PC further facilitated a sharing of knowledge/market information/networks etc for those individuals to succeed even further.

I view PC as a leveraging mechanism to save money, time and reduce mistakes.

It's invaluable imho.

 

The fact is that you don't know what you don't know. Before PC & SS before that, we were searching for something. We didn't know what at the time, but went from one failed venture to the next. We were never 'normal'.

Neither Hubby nor myself came from money but we were both brought up to believe that you could do whatever you wished to achieve in life, so long as you did the hard yards. Neither family had investments, nor did our peer group, so buying the first IP was a complete 'out of body' experience for me. I thought that normal people like us didn't do this sort of thing, only the rich.

Finding SS changed a lot of things and brought a lot more confidence. It is so easy to find information today, much easier than it used to be, but I do believe that sometimes the ease with which information is had brings with it some who think that this whole investing thing is easy, and therefore either put it off, or quit just when they should hold on. Nothing worthwhile in life is easy.

 

Thankyou. Currently renovating the PPOR, so that if we do come back, we don't have to do it then, just tidy up after tenants.

 

The essential ingredients.

 

Another downside is their kids will likely be drawn back for work 20 years later, so they will be disconnected from their grandchildren. I've seen this before.

People who move up for lifestyle is one thing, but if you do it to save money...there will be other costs later on.

 

LOL! I'm glad that not being normal is an essential ingredient.

 

I have to say it is, I have no choice.....

 

Well then 'YAY' to all us weirdo's.

 

We made the move to QLD pre-covid. Took a huge drop in salary to do so (approx 30k pa less), but actually ended up better off each fortnight because of the much lower costs of living here too. It's funny how things can balance out.

One of the best decisions we have made.

 

When the southerners taste the coffee and see how backward most of the locals are, they will quickly head back South

 

Lollll is Brisbane coffee that bad??

 

Definitely better place to retire then

 

Ha I went to Melb for the weekend and the coffee was terrible.

 

Backward locals in QLD?

I was born in NSW and first travelled to QLD in 1990.

The first thing that I really noticed was much less rubbish on the beaches and in National Parks, ect.

So I noticed that Queenslanders appeared to care for their natural environment to a much greater extent than their southern counterparts?

Sure...QLD relies more heavily on tourism than either NSW or Vic...so that may explain the above to some degree...but I honestly believe after living for years in NSW and QLD... that the everyday local in QLD actually cares about their environment more so than people in either NSW or Vic.

Depends what you value most I suppose...

 

Nah! Don't drink coffee, so not an issue here.