Vanessababa Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 Need a little advice please What are your thoughts on Secret Harbour as a suburb to raise a 12 year old? Looking at different areas in WA and I really like the look of Secret Harbour. What are the employment opportunities like? My background is Call Center Management/Business Development Management. Would it be too far to commute to Perth? Any advice more than welcome and thank you all in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthumbrianDavid Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 We were based in Secret Harbour for our 3 week reccie. I really liked the place. It had a nice feeling and has a decent restaurant in the Whistling Kite. It's a short drive to Mandurah where we spent fair bit of time, although it's got a mixed reputation.  It'll probably take you an hour to drive to the CBD, which isn't too bad if you can work from home a couple days a week. The car parks at the train stations are rammed at peak times.  The properties are really cheap to buy/rent compared with the northern suburbs. Not sure about schools but you can check out the rankings here https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-school-atar-ranking-2019-how-did-your-school-perform-in-2019-20200108-p53psl.html .  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanessababa Posted July 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 Aw thank you so much for the reply, much appreciated. I am torn between Adelaide and Perth so looking into different areas, although I really like the look of Secret Harbour and the school reviews on the link you sent me are really good. If you dont mind me asking where did you end up living? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verystormy Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 18 hours ago, Vanessababa said: Need a little advice please What are your thoughts on Secret Harbour as a suburb to raise a 12 year old? Looking at different areas in WA and I really like the look of Secret Harbour. What are the employment opportunities like? My background is Call Center Management/Business Development Management. Would it be too far to commute to Perth? Any advice more than welcome and thank you all in advance Have you got your visas and if so, what category? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthumbrianDavid Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 If you dont mind me asking where did you end up living?We were supposed to move over in April but our flights were cancelled on us. We'll get there eventually!Sent from my Redmi Note 7 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthumbrianDavid Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 One thing to mention - I got a completely different feel of the suburbs when driving around them to researching online. Different at night to through the day as well. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanessababa Posted July 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2020 On 04/07/2020 at 05:40, verystormy said: Have you got your visas and if so, what category? Citizenship by Descent - should be finalised in the next few weeks fingers crossed Do you know of any potential opportunities? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanessababa Posted July 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2020 On 05/07/2020 at 09:44, NorthumbrianDavid said:   We were supposed to move over in April but our flights were cancelled on us. We'll get there eventually! Sent from my Redmi Note 7 using Tapatalk   Oh no what a nightmare! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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