GP JOBS IN AUSTRALIA

South-East Queensland from the Landsat 7 satellite

Springfield

This is a purpose built satellite city to the south west of Brisbane. Designed to take off the pressure of development on the Gold Coast, it has only recently been developed. Current population is about 20,000 but this is expected to grow to 80,000 by 2030. It’s well laid out with decent sized plots, a major shopping centre and a few restaurants. There’s a big cinema complex nearby in Redbank. If you don’t fancy living in Springfield, there are quite a few very nice outer suburbs of Brisbane to choose from. Try the Graceville & Chelmer areas, which are about 25 miles to the north.  There’s good road link to Brisbane (though it can be busy if you were to commute into Brisbane from Springfield) and there’s a planned rail link.

More information: apart from the ubiquitous Google maps (use Streetview – the little orange man by the scale bar – to look around the area) and Wikipedia, these two sites might help with more information. Not all areas are covered of course and there’s no guarantee on the quality of information. Still it might be helpful in helping you to find the best place to be:

http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/rate-your-place/

http://www.cityhobo.com/  (N.B. easiest way to get information from this site is to use the ‘maps’ tab on the top navigation)

Please note: this information is correct as far as we can tell. Please let us know if you think otherwise or if any links are broken – thanks