suburbs

housing

Biff! Bosh! Bash! ‘Ouch!‘ This is exactly what you don’t want to happen to you whilst you’re out at night on walkabout, or any time really. But when you’re looking at new areas in which to live, and you don’t know the country well let alone those areas, how do you find somewhere that is [...]

Crime Statistics in Australia: Finding Safe Suburbs thumbnail

This internet thing, it’s really catching on, isn’t it? There’s lots of stuff available online now, it’s come along in leaps and bounds in the last 6 or 7 years. That might seem a strange thing to say right now, but I do have a reason. Quite some time ago I wanted to write a [...]

areas

It’s a question I get asked quite often on this website, usually more specifically linked to a particular city. So, for example, “What are the bad areas to avoid in Brisbane?” Or “What are the bad areas to avoid in Sydney?” Just so that you know, the above image is NOT of a bad area of [...]

Multicultural Australia

In a moment I’m going to show you a series of maps of Australia’s state capital cities. I’m sure they will instantly remind you of the kind of maps that are thrust before us as the election results come through on election night. Don’t worry, it’s not that, there’s no need to hightail it out [...]

Brisbane

Last week I re-printed one of my Australia and New Zealand magazine articles, it was called Girlie Shopping in Australia: Retail Therapy. Well, if you look closely at the magazine cover… … you will notice it’s main title is “Discover Brisbane”. That’s something I’ve already done, and so the people from the magazine asked me [...]