……and our decision is…….BEACH LIFE!!!!

After much thought, deliberation and a few beers we have decided that it will be the beach life for us.

Although we love the buzz of the city, it is the sunny beaches and chilled living that caught our imagination. Even when we first found out we’d be coming over our first thoughts were about living by the beach so it had to be beachside.

It then came down to Bondi or Coogee! Although Bondi is a good surf beach and Coogee not so much, it is a very touristy area and expensive for what you get.

We have just fallen in love with the atmosphere of Coogee and from what we have seen we can get a nice apartment close to the beach for our money, plus Coogee sits right in the middle of good surfing spots such as Maroubra (6 minute drive) and Bondi (10 minute drive). Another bonus for us is that a few of the other UK crew have decided to live in Coogee as well.

Deciding to focus our efforts on just one area did mean that it kind of narrowed our search, but there was still no end to the mad dashing about trying to look at possible apartments. After the first glut of viewings we found a nice, modern, one bedroom apartment with a large balcony and decided to make our first offer….how exciting!!!

We knew competition was fierce for this apartment as we counted at least 10 other people at the open house viewing and after we submitted our application along with a mass of references we waited nervously to find out whether we were successful or not.

Unfortunately, on this occasion we didn’t get it. But I’m a great believer in fate and what will be, will be, so onwards and upwards and continue with the search.

Over the course of the next few days between us we visited about 12 different properties, some awful and some which we quite liked. We also discovered that the letting agents down here are a wiz with Photoshop, as the advertised photo’s quite clearly had been doctored to enhance the property.

Now we had decided on Coogee, we wanted to make sure it would happen, so decided to play the numbers game and make offers on 3 apartments. Hopefully at least one of them would be accepted; otherwise it would be back to the drawing board and we’d have to start preparing for all the new viewings on Wednesday.

We’ll let you know if we had any luck soon (hopefully)……………..