It wasn't our first choice but the landlords of our first choice (in Brighton) were messing about with how long they wanted the lease to be - we wanted 15 months, they wanted 12 and then said no, they only wanted a six month lease, which is totally annoying as if we had known that, we would never have looked at the place.
Our new house is pretty perfect - about 500 metres from a train station - it is a little bit out of the city so is about 40 minutes on the train (I will be reading a book a week!) but is 10 minutes to the beach, 10 minutes to Brighton (nice "cafe culture" suburb) and 10 minutes to the largest shopping centre in Melbourne. It has a good sized garden for Adam to play football and a garage for us to hide all our "stuff".
We are hoping to move on Friday but we need the removal company to confirm that they can do it - our containers are being loaded onto a train tonight to go overnight to Melbourne - as it is a holiday Monday next week (Australia Day) we would really like to get in for then.
Now that we know where we are living we can arrange school, kindegarten (really confusingly, in Melbourne kindy refers to pre-school, and prep is what we called kindy in Sydney!!!), dentist, doctor, football club, athletics, swimming, etc, etc.
