What is the best place to live in Australia?
Nice people are found everywhere. The best surfing beaches are in the southern States but they can get cold in the winter, If you want to be hot all year round then the tropics are for you – but you won’t find much surf. Northern NSW from Coffs Harbour to Tweed Heads has many magnificent beaches with good surf and most have few people on them. There are plenty of towns to choose from. Southeast Queensland is good too but some beaches are very crowded and the Gold Coast is a bit tacky (in my opinion anyway, lots of people like it). I wouldn’t worry about the wildlife. There are some dangerous animals in Australia but they won’t bother you. In the northern tropics you get crocodiles and box jellyfish but if you are sensible, neither is a problem. Shark attacks are very rare. Snake bites are rare and deaths even rarer. 95% of people bitten by snakes are trying to kill the snake. I’ve never seen a funnel web spider even though I lived in Sydney for thirty years and redbacks, although commo