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16 minutes ago, l0ckym said:

CBD centric is old school.
Heck I live in Albury/Wodonga- and work for a multinational FMCG as an Asia-PAC manager. I travel all over the world from here.
Melbs is a 35min flight/3hr drive, Sydney is 1hr flight, Canberra is a 3hr drive (with international airport servicing Singapore)...
I have a 1000m2 block, 5 bedroom house - with views over town - only cost a smidge over $300k.
10mins from the office - travel 10x a year...have zero desire to work in any cbd.
Probably earn more than most cbd jobs in my IT field as well (I'm not a specialist)..
Got me buggered why everyone wants a $900k mortgage...

This is basiclly what I'm doing, but a bit closer to melb down the hume.

I billed prob 10 days max in Melbourne last year the rest of it overseas or interstate.

I get a 26000m2 block , close access to a lake, 1 hour to airport. Few min drive to a train station that hits CBD every 20-30 min in peak times
 


 

Yep - not sure what the city offers other than 10000 coffee shop's - which to be honest- you probably only go to 2-3. Footy, concerts - meh - better on tv. Winton 1hr Sth, Wakefield 4hrs north, deca Wodonga 20mins - snow 1.5hrs, river, lake, world class road & MTB routes, motorcyclist (& hence GTR) heaven. $500k would get you a mansion around these parts.

1 hour ago, l0ckym said:

Depends - 8hrs of meetings or 3hrs of meetings - if your rate is like mine - the time gained pays for itself. You would t do it everyday - even once a week could be worked into a package if you can negotiate your contract

lol

As if I'll get that kind of travel budget being in retail and sending customers on wild goose chase for every question I get asked. 

1 hour ago, emts said:

This is basiclly what I'm doing, but a bit closer to melb down the hume.

I billed prob 10 days max in Melbourne last year the rest of it overseas or interstate.

I get a 26000m2 block , close access to a lake, 1 hour to airport. Few min drive to a train station that hits CBD every 20-30 min in peak times
 


 

Time for jetski. 

It's not for every job - but retail is everywhere. Don't need to be in a cbd to do that - unless you are selling 'Welcome to Melbourne" pamphlets...


Precisely, and I've huge choice if I wanna move elsewhere seeing I'm with Coles. If I'm getting better at sucking genitals, I'm sure I'll go further up.

If only I knew this like 10 years ago...

Basically, I'm spoilt for choice in regards of purchasing a property if I wanna "grow up" no?
3 minutes ago, Count Grantleyish said:

 


Precisely, and I've huge choice if I wanna move elsewhere seeing I'm with Coles. If I'm getting better at sucking genitals, I'm sure I'll go further up.

If only I knew this like 10 years ago...

Basically, I'm spoilt for choice in regards of purchasing a property if I wanna "grow up" no?

 

Should move tomorrow - then you can afford "all the GTR's"...<insert evil laugh>...

Reasons why I stay in Melbourne - family, friends, IT industry here is big, f1, afl, motogp etc. all dat kinda shit

Also cos I don't know any different, I got a house now too cbf moving

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4 hours ago, l0ckym said:

Yep - not sure what the city offers other than 10000 coffee shop's - which to be honest- you probably only go to 2-3. Footy, concerts - meh - better on tv. Winton 1hr Sth, Wakefield 4hrs north, deca Wodonga 20mins - snow 1.5hrs, river, lake, world class road & MTB routes, motorcyclist (& hence GTR) heaven. $500k would get you a mansion around these parts.

The city, I don't really get it either - depressing place with rubbish everywhere and crowds, queues and shitty limited parking you have to pay for. Food really no better than restaurants and cafes in suburbia.

Suburban Melbourne on the other hand, I love. I think the attraction for most is that their friends and family live here too. Plus people growing up in the area and not wanting to venture too far out. I know if it wasn't for family, friends and my work industry then I would likely be on the skirts of Bendigo with 1000sqm like you, waiting for the growth to come through instead of borrowing high for comparatively mediocre residence.

I got offered a job based in wodonga but majority of work in melb, though i knew that when work wasnt in melb it would be 4.5+hours away in wodonga or further... Im not that desperate at this point, thanks...

4 hours ago, l0ckym said:

All quality of life in the end. Stressing about a $5k/month mortgage - every month for the next 30yrs doesn't appeal. Plus I can spend more time with the kids, and we can afford for the wife to be part time. Each to their own.

Don't think the goal has ever been to pay off those mortgages, just an alternative to paying rent rather and have equity in something...but I agree...fk having 80% of your income go to a bank so you can live closer to skyscrapers and sip lattes on demand. Rather buy a motorbike to kill the travel time lol

Travel time to and from work is a big one for me - for most jobs that's unpaid time/fuel that really needs to be factored in to your working hours/expenses when calculating job value, but rarely ever is. People seem to want to ignore it or accept it as fact of life. Used to have friends brag about incomes then find out their hours are 8-6 etc. Income doesn't look as good when you put down the complete contribution involved. Working 5 mins from where I live, I know what I'm getting paid for and you couldn't get me into the city for less than 25k p/a more. I purposely moved close to my work to maximise my weeknight R&R, youth you'll never get back. When you work 5 days a week and get only 2 to yourself (who convinced the world to run with this?!)...it's wasted life if you're getting home at 7pm to have dinner, watch an hour of tv and go to bed.

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8 hours ago, l0ckym said:

Should move tomorrow - then you can afford "all the GTR's"...<insert evil laugh>...

Haha, can't afford to service the loan at the moment! 

In middle of "career change" myself but knowing me, I'd stay within Coles. 

after blasting up and back the hume every weekend for a couple months I cannot believe just how bad it is currently.

I know it's end of summer so city folks doing their last weekend away in vic for the year but damn that Lane etiquette is gone.

always seems to be a Black SUV sitting at 105 in the right lane.

11 hours ago, Count Grantleyish said:

Time for jetski. 

don't think I haven't been looking

need shed to store it in first.

boat ramp 1km either end of my road and a "man made" beach a few 100 meters.

All I need to do is "find" a key to the gym in the estate up the street and I'm sorted.

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