We are often asked about employment opportunities when people are considering a move to Tasmania. The state has had a higher than average unemployment rate for a while and it can be difficult to find work, particularly outside the main cities. However, the employment figures released last week show that Tasmania is now close to …
Unemployment Rate in Tasmania Lowest in Three Years Read More »
Many of our blog readers and people enquiring about moving to Tasmania are interested in the regions known as the Huon Valley and the Channel area south of Hobart. Kingston is the regions major commercial centre (we live in Kingston Beach and it is great) but Margate it seems could be looking forward to bigger …
Margate Tasmania Development Close to Green Light Read More »
The Hobart City Council is proposing a further 10 roads have speed limits reduced from 60km/h to 50km/h. This follows the reduction of speed limits on a number of CBD roads in 2011. The story below from The Mercury Newspaper provides some of the background. However, the article is not clear in the statistics provided, as the …
Having talked with many people planning a move to Tasmania during the past three years, it is interesting that the circumstances of those wanting to move vary so significantly. I have worked with single people in their twenties through to singles and couples in their 60s and 70s. A large number of the people who …
A couple of months ago there was talk that power prices in Tasmania may fall, as we talked about in our blog posts at the time – here and here. Well now it is confirmed that electricity prices will fall by 5.23% from 1 January 2014, as reported in The Mercury newspaper today. Remember that …
