I’m moving to Melbourne and I’m currently planning everything involving the switch to the new city. It’s going to be a lot of work. Not only because I’m moving there for a new job and hopefully a chance at a new career, but also because moving, in general, takes a lot of effort. Especially if you’re moving interstate, like I am.
One of the things I looked at when choosing where to live in Melbourne was all of the amenities offered in each area. For example, I wanted to ensure that my area would have a good therapist and optometrist. Bayside seemed like a pretty good option in this regard. It also has a lot of other great aspects, like leafy green parks, safe family surroundings, access to public transport, a dining precinct and a shopping centre. The optometrist is located in this shopping complex, a convenient ten-minute walk from my house. It’ll be great, since the first thing (or one of the first things) I have to do when I arrive in Melbourne is visit a behavioural optometrist clinic to get my eyes checked out. I want to join a local soccer team in Melbourne, but my hand-eye coordination has been a little bit off recently. My vision is unbalanced and blurry, so I feel like I won’t be a very valuable player to my new team until I get all of that stuff sorted out.
In the meantime, there are lots of other things to plan, such as getting my luggage and all of my possessions from my house in Adelaide to my new house in Melbourne. It makes it a little bit easier if I hire someone to do it for me, but it’s also more expensive that way. I need to double check what the salary is going to be at my new job before I go around making those decisions.