Our Australian Dream

We moved to Australia five years ago and just like any migrant here, it's been our dream to have our very own home sweet home. Fulfilling our dream has not been an easy job for us considering the rising property prices, the changes in the government grant and the fact that, Elmer and I needed to take turns in studying and working part-time as we plan our career changes to secure more stable jobs in the health industry.

We persevered and worked hard to keep on saving for our ultimate dream and so five years later, the dream is slowly becoming a reality. We can almost touch it and feel it and very soon we will be able to actually see it!

I really wasn't keen on owning a new house. I prefer to buy an old established one with a big yard and a nice garden and there wasn't a day that passed that I did not check domain.com.au for new properties on market. I religiously kept a shortlist of properties that I was interested and on days that Elmer and I are not busy, I would request him to drive me around to check out the properties which are usually in Delahey, Burnside, Burnside Heights and Caroline Springs. There were a few that we liked but not enough to make us fall in love.

Elmer was more interested in a new property being the picky and meticulous person that he is. We visited Atherstone, Modeina, Aspire and Infinity but we always find something that we did not like about them. 

And then, we decided to visit Woodlea and we were hooked!  On the day we went, there were a few lots that were available which was a big surprise as we heard how hard it was to register and purchase a land from them. It was not just any land, it was a land that ticked all our checklist : good sized, in front of a park or reserve and facing east. I really have a feeling that we were meant to have this land, we were there at the right place, at the right time with this land waiting for us!

There's just one hurdle that we needed to go through before we finalised our purchase, the land has a big frontage that tapers off at the rear and we needed to make sure that the house that we want, Amberley 27, will sit properly in the land. 

As they say, if something is right, everything will fall in place. After a couple of emails and meetings, Carlisle Homes confirmed to us that Amberley 27 just fits perfectly. It was literally a "just" fit mainly because Woodlea allows the porch to sit half a meter on the front setback. With a big relief, we paid the full down payment and so here we are and moving on with our dream!