RE: [ozmidwifery] RE: Location, location, location

[Sally Westbury]

I moved to Freo from near Melbourne 2 years ago and I love it!! Freo is great if you like older houses and a mish mash of interesting artistic, hippy, free thinking, diverse people. There was originally a large Italian migrant community here and there I still a good village feel to it.   Woodside is the local maternity hospital and is small and friendly. It is the only hospital that works very co-operatively with the Community Midwives. Woodside is the only hospital that will let us work as midwives within their walls.   Midwifery in Australia is quite different than the UK and varies greatly from hospital to hospital depending upon the midwifery management and what the obstetricians will ‘allow’ the midwives to do.   Good luck with the move   Sally Westbury Homebirth Midwife Fremantle Western Australia -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karen Sent: Sunday, 8 February 2004 3:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ozmidwifery] RE: Location, location, location   Dear Everyone                     As I am hoping to get a job in a hospital in Perth, can anyone help us with suitable areas to bring up a family but within easy travelling distance to Perth for work, easy = 30-40 minute drive at the most.   I have three children (ages 12, 9 and 3). We would ideally like an area that is not very large and busy. Perhaps in the country but not isolated. There has to be easy access to good schooling. We do like older properties with a bit of character but this not essential. The kids of course just want to rent a property with a swimming pool!! Is this a really tall order? I hope we're not looking for the impossible.   We hope to move out later on this year and ideally we would like to get a property that we'd be happy to settle in for a while (or at least until my work visa runs out) We spend ages on the net looking, but there is just so much to look at. Fremantle area looks nice, is it?   If anyone can gives me any pointers on nice areas or even areas best avoided I would really appreciate any advice, we can hardly wait to move out to OZ !!!   Kind Regards Karen Crossan