What's good about Cairns plus my cost of living in my adopted city 

Great post thankyou Doug. Very interesting. In case my comment is being read by others I worked at Cairns Base Hospital for two years and yes I can attest that it's a top notch hospital. To get technical for a moment spinal, severe neuro trauma, neuro surgery, severe burns, some Oncology treatments etc do require specialists in Townsville to treat and occasionally in Brisbane but that would be quite rare on a case by case. I worked in Rehabilitation and it's a great hospital. Doug mentioned Trinity Beach and I lived there for 2 years. It is one of the northern beaches suburbs, an area stretching from Machins Beach up to Palm Cove. You would probably want a car to be living in these suburbs......they are serviced by regular bus routes but for instance on the couple of occasions I caught a bus from the centre of Cairns to Trinity Beach it took about 45 minutes.

Doug, are you sitting in 2.floor looking out? Such a beautiful view into the tropical scenery. love it ❤❤🙏🙏

Awesome thanks. We also love Vietnam but seriously thinking of returning to cairns to retire.

Cant wait to get there again out of horribe Victoria.

Great info! You should head up to Ravenshoe on the tablelands during summer. At an elevation of 930m it's a lot milder climate. Cheers

Safe & Sound ..Work & Study....😍

‘‘It never really gets cold‘‘ sold me

Hi Doug, I recently on dec 2nd got to spend a week in Cairns when the borders finally opened. My wife is Thai and we have 2 boys 3 and 6. We have looked at cairns as a place to live in the near future as Sydney where we live now is very expensive. I do gardening/ handman work and my wife dies Thai massage. I am hopefull we could re establish in cairns but need to investigate the schools etc. Thanjs for your videos as they are very informative.

Thank you for this video. Very informative

Thank you, Doug! I'm want to go to Australia next year to study/work and I'm trying to decide between Cairns and Adelaide. Your video helped me a lot, just hope to find something similar about Adelaide and I will be gtg haha

It was great thank you 🙏🏻

Hey Doug. You should go onto RU-vid and watch “Life in Australia: Cairns.” You will see what our city was like in the 50’s when the population was 25,000.

coles BBQ chicken tastes way better then big city supermarket ones

Covered quite a lot of ground in this video! Are the fruitbats really under some control up there?

Hey there Doug. I’m a Canadian looking to head out to Australia this winter on a working visa. I am hoping to get a job in construction as that’s what I’ve done for years so I can make some decent money and stay there a full 6 months. Would you say there is good opportunities for work out there at the moment? Also, obviously the ocean is beautiful there, but I know Queensland has a lot of other interesting wilderness and wildlife. Is it fairly accessible to get out into the bush for things like hiking, camping or maybe even hunting if I can swing it? I live near the mountains here in Canada and love all those activities, was hoping to see what Australia had to offer in those areas as well.

Hi Doug thank you great informative video! Are you still in cairns? 2 years on, how is the crime now? Have you encountered much? Considering moving but coming from a very safe rural town where crime is non existent, I read you shouldn’t walk at night in cairns?

Port Macquarie NSW according to google has the best climate in Australia, have you ever been there? Very informative flog👍 Are you pricing in AUS$?

Cairns suitable for a young family? Is there alot of work up there

Bring back the bats at the library!

What? People in Melbourne don't say hello, don't know what part of Melbourne you came from mate.,your paying way too much in that flat,better off in your own off grid home

What’s the availability of jobs like mate? I’m thinking about relocating there next year from Bangkok with my Thai missus. Also mate, what’s it like driving scooters around there? Can you drive on all the roads or only certain roads? Thx pal