Thread: Thinking of moving to Tassie

Tassie is a lovely place,it's just cold.

Originally Posted by bblaze

As a chef you will find work any where, not saying we are short of chefs but there seems to be work about if you are prepared to maybe just be a cook for a while. I believe any one that wants work in tassie can find it. I spent 12 months on the dole about 15 years ago because I didnt want to work (burnt out), Keeping out of work was harder than working. I like the northwest, little bias I suppose.
Have fun on your visit, alow a month if you want to see more than the northwest corner.
cheers
blaze

one of the reasons we are looking at tassie is that they are by internal accounts and advertisements actually screaming for teachers down there ...and there are some good incentives for teachers to move there as well from what the swmbos telling me and what we have read...so will have to see what happens ...

cheers

Every body complains or states how cold Tassie is. Lets have a fair look at it.
I have just done the gunbarrel highway through to dalhouse springs and on to melbourne. When checking overnight temps it was 3 to 4 degree colder going through the gunbarrel than the same times in tassie. Daytime temps were only on average 4 degrees higher apart from one day in Uluru where it was 26 degrees. I wore thermals most of the time.
The beauty of tassie weather is we dont get extremes
cheers
blaze

Hi,
Born and raised in Hobart, lived here all my life except for 6 years in RAAF. Couldn't wait to get back here when I got married with three weeks of service life to go.
Couldn't face renting in the Weribee or Laverton area, house prices were ridiculous, couldn't afford to buy there, but moved to Hobart and on an average salary, bought and paid off a house in a nice suburb in about 10 years.
Though I live and work in Hobart, I love the other parts of the island, they are all so different, depends on prevailing weather and local geology.
The wet quartzite West Coast is so different to the dolerite central highlands or the granite parts of the East Coast. The dry dolerite East Coast is so different to the wet dolerite Tasman Peninsular. You can walk through many different types of forest types and land form types in one day, there is much more variety in a small area than many parts of the mainland.
Not sure where we would want to live once work finishes, West coast is a bit wet and the East coast is a bit dry, Central Highlands are too cold, so I suspect coastal North West might have some good options.
As others mentioned, teaching and chef skills should find work easily, especially in country areas, and with a bit of luck in the same town.
I suppose the best option is to come down on an extended working holiday and see how you like it, and if you do, make the move permanent.
cheers

Although winter is cold we had weeks of 30 degrees + for weeks and about 5 40+ days last summer.

That was hot.

Originally Posted by bblaze

Every body complains or states how cold Tassie is. Lets have a fair look at it.
I have just done the gunbarrel highway through to dalhouse springs and on to melbourne. When checking overnight temps it was 3 to 4 degree colder going through the gunbarrel than the same times in tassie. Daytime temps were only on average 4 degrees higher apart from one day in Uluru where it was 26 degrees. I wore thermals most of the time.
The beauty of tassie weather is we dont get extremes
cheers
blaze

I have mentioned the weather because he lives in the Wide Bay Area, no winter here and on the coast only about 7 days in the year the temperature is above 35 centigrades were I live.
Sure there are places in the main land much colder than Tasmania but the diference that I have noticed when I lived few years in Hobart is that the tempreature claims rapidly to the pick on the day and hold it for about 1 or 2 hours and then drops very fast again
Here where I live this winter we have 8 centigrades about 7 am but by 9.20 was well over 12 and hold for about 8 hours before start dropping again.
That it is the diference that I have noticed.

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
Born and raised in Hobart, lived here all my life except for 6 years in RAAF. Couldn't wait to get back here when I got married with three weeks of service life to go.
Couldn't face renting in the Weribee or Laverton area, house prices were ridiculous, couldn't afford to buy there, but moved to Hobart and on an average salary, bought and paid off a house in a nice suburb in about 10 years.
Though I live and work in Hobart, I love the other parts of the island, they are all so different, depends on prevailing weather and local geology.
The wet quartzite West Coast is so different to the dolerite central highlands or the granite parts of the East Coast. The dry dolerite East Coast is so different to the wet dolerite Tasman Peninsular. You can walk through many different types of forest types and land form types in one day, there is much more variety in a small area than many parts of the mainland.
Not sure where we would want to live once work finishes, West coast is a bit wet and the East coast is a bit dry, Central Highlands are too cold, so I suspect coastal North West might have some good options.
As others mentioned, teaching and chef skills should find work easily, especially in country areas, and with a bit of luck in the same town.
I suppose the best option is to come down on an extended working holiday and see how you like it, and if you do, make the move permanent.
cheers

mate thanks for that...very interesting.....how cold do the highlands get?

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Originally Posted by cucinadio

mate thanks for that...very interesting.....how cold do the highlands get?

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Have a look HERE for a rough idea