Thinking of buying a home in Brisbane? Here's what your life will look like

You will love staying in Brisbane just as so many others.

The city of Brisbane has an ample supply of sunlight and clear skies that will make you feel happy and contented to live in such a clean and modern city. Here you will find the people living happy, always ready to befriend and to help you. There is nothing to compare between the serious and intense looking people seen on the streets of any other city to the happy and fresh looking people in Brisbane.   

There are various reasons for the happiness of the people of Brisbane. The people who have migrated to this place from Asia and the Far East have introduced Brisbane to an array of heavenly food that are readily available or can be taken home for cooking at your leisure. The banks on the side of the river Brisbane flowing through the middle of the city are filled with food stalls on Sundays where you can enjoy yourself.

You can even barbeque your food in areas provided in the lovely parks here. It is unthinkable in a place like Glasgow, where vandals would lay waste to such facilities. You will feel happy to live in a place where there is an appreciation for this type of facility and no urge to destroy them.

You can find wonderfully clean beaches where you can enjoy throughout the year as the climate is sub-tropical. Living in Gold Coast which has places like the Dream World, Movie World, Sea World, Wet & Wild and commuting to work in Brisbane, which is only an hour away, can be very enjoyable.

The man-made beach of South Bank beside the river Brisbane makes the city one in a group of selected cities in the world where there is a beach smack in the centre of the city. It attracts large crowds in the day time and offers entertainment to children free of cost. You can leave your kids here, both young and old, and go for shopping as the lifeguards are there to provide them safety up to late hours of the evening.  

Due to the sub-tropical nature of the climate, Brisbane has only a cold and dry winter season instead of a freezing winter. Scottish summers are as warm as they come but last for only a couple of days if you are in luck. The winter temperature in Brisbane may be a little higher than the summer temperature in Scotland while the summer here is a bit humid.   

Some of the inhabitants in Brisbane or Brissie, as it is fondly called, feel that the summer is a bit too steamy. But you may not feel too bothered about it as:

a.      The office, car and the house are all air-conditioned.

b.      The months of January, February and March are the most humid and hot. You can be at the beaches on weekends by as early as 7 am to avoid getting sunburn though it gets a bit warm. You can leave the beach by 10 am for a shopping mall which has air-conditioning. From there, you can go back home and enjoy a glass of fruit juice and a book on a seat under the shade of the verandah.

c.       On the other hand, in UK, you can get stuck inside your home for days because of bad weather. The “bad weather” in Brisbane occurs only in summer when it is hot and sticky, and it frequently rains  during afternoons. But even during this " bad weather" you can enjoy on the beaches and go for jogging sessions in the lovely parks in the early morning. 

d.      Most of the year, excluding the three months of “bad weather” , is fantastic in Brisbane.

e.     The novelty of growing pineapples and bananas in your garden may have been unthinkable earlier and may make you wonder when it will wear off.  

If beaches do not attract you then you can find a large number of 50m long swimming pools which are twice the size than most of the swimming pools you can find in Scotland. 

Another beautiful thing about Brisbane is that the sun rises early at 6.30 am even during the middle of winter. During the winter in Scotland it would be still dark when you get up from bed at 6.30 in the morning, wash your face, have breakfast and go off to work. You can rise with the rising sun here, go for a jog if you are in the mood to, and have breakfast without any hurry and go off to work in the refreshing sunshine. The contrast between this place and any other the place where you come from may quite amaze you.

Even two years after immigrating to Brisbane, you would feel lucky to be living under such a lovely blue sky. Currently, home prices are being held down by a high Australian interest rates, which means that if you're moving in from outside of Australia, there are some real bargains.