Kununurra??To Live there or Not?

I have not lived there but would like to move back North, a bit cold in winter down here in Perth , but I have stopped there a few times on the jobs , I think you will get a lot of info from this link

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Doug

Diesel

Its a hot place. November to April. The year we lived there it never dropped below 38 for the whole of March

There are some waterfalls in the vicinity for swimming. Stay out of the rivers as you will soon become croc tucker

Kids are adaptable and should enjoy the change

Everything including the house will have to be airconditioned.

Food etc will be mega expensive

If you can adjust to living in a small country town then you should go for it.

Kununurra used to be a good community and if you are prepared to get involved in community activities you will slot in quite nicely.

There are lots of places to explore in the region.

Enjoy

Cheers

G'day DieselJuice

To live here or not is the 64 thousand dollar question that only you can answer.

We have been here for coming up 4 years and to date have basically enjoyed it here. The town is big enough to cater most services, doctors, dentist , shopping etc as long as you can adopt a patient outlook and be prepared to order and wait for some things.
Cost of living is higher obviously and the biggest rip off is the price of fuel.
If you have access to GEHA Housing and your subsidies and district allowances it will make living expenses more realistic. Housing in town is at a premium due to other booming factors and therefore I would consider it fairly unrealistic to move here unless you had GEHA or employment housing.
The school here is quite good and does cater up to Year 12. My daughter attends school here and enjoys it, well as much as kids enjoy school anyway.
There are the typical north west type social problems but having said that I would consider it one of the better north west towns.
Yes it will be particularly hot for the most part of the year except for Nov to probably April where it can be #loody hot, humid and horrible. You do actually climatise and your accomodation and work place will be air conditioned. (Hence power subsidy for govy employees). There are fresh water swimming holes you can use but only after gaining the correct local knowledge.
If you enjoy camping and four wheel driving and fishing you will love the place. It is a great base for touring the top end generally if you can manage the time off to do so. Its a lifestyle thing and if its the lifestyle you want you will enjoy it.
If your other half is keen to work part time or whatever there is heaps of various types of work available. The only people around here without work are the ones that don't want to work.
When we first came to town there was fairly limited (and expensive) air travel out of here due to the collapse of Ansett. Over the past couple of years that has improved vastly with skywest coming and going fairly regularily in conjunction with Argyle.
Hope I have been of some help. If you want to give me your email address I can ping you some photo's etc, your call.

Cheers
Wal.

1.49 ltr...At least that is today ....grin....And there are plenty of places to swim or fish or just go driving or camping.. The wife and I have a couple of boats one for rivers and one to go out from Wyndham...And a camper trailer does the trick for us.. We are out every weekend we can..Its an individual thing living here, depends what you want!..The rain last night took out the optic fibre so we lost every thing for 24 hours...No phone eftpos All plastic was useless the last shopping day before chrissy...lol...But in the wet thats how it is...

I spent 12 months in Kununurra in the mid - late 60's. Lived in the PWD hostel. No bridges over the Victoria in those days (or most other rivers) Only bitumen was Border to Wyndum.

It was pretty remote in those days, with no road access from south for several months each year, most things came by 'State Ships' to Wyndum but I really enjoyed it. Good social life and plenty to see and do at weekends.

Bruce

Go for it, been kicking myself for years that I didn't when I had the chance especially as like in your case the employer is footing the relocation costs.
You can always pull the plug a couple of years down the track if it gets too hard (usually on the missus and family).

On the up side, when i was last there (99) the water cost $65 a year for as much as u could use

Thanx heaps everyone who replied with some advice. I have scoured the net and looked at all the pros and cons. Somehow I am gettin gthe feeling that the heat and remoteness is going to be the biggest factor for the wife and kids to cope with. I'll have to think long and hard about this one. Cheers to you all for Xmasstay well and enjoy life, family and friends as it s so short. I will post later when I decide whether to go or not, i may also have th eopportunity to go to a couple of other regional centres so will see what doors open.

Merry Xmas from

The Juice