Milton

We have just renewed our lease for the second time, meaning that we have committed to staying in our townhouse for another year and will be in this location until at least July 2013.  We had thought that it would make sense to try another neighbourhood, as we have lived here since September 2010 and it is really the only part of Brisbane that we really know, but there weren't any places that we liked in any other neighbourhoods, plus we really like where we live.

Home sweet home

Our suburb is Milton and, unlike in Canada, our address is for our suburb, not the city.  We don't live in Brisbane, we live in Milton.  If someone were to send a letter to our street address with "Brisbane" as the suburb, we probably wouldn't get it.  We have noticed that different suburbs will have same street names, so it is really important to get the suburb right.  It is second nature for us now to get in a cab and say our suburb name, not just the street.

Milton is a great place for us to live.  We can walk to work in about 35 minutes, and walk both ways when the weather is amenable.  In the summer we have a 7 minute train ride and 3 minute walk to get to work, but we still walk home.  It is important to us to have a train station close by and the Milton Station is about a 2 minute walk.

Electrical Station painted in honour of the suburb's namesake, John Milton

Milton was named after the English poet John Milton, writer of Paradise Lost, which means we have a pretty classy suburb!  As you can imagine, people are always walking around and busting out random verses of poetry.  It's quite inspiring.

Park Road Restaruant District...our own little piece of Paris!

The XXXX Brewery, suburb landmark

Milton has two areas that are full of restaurants, Park Road and Rosalie.  We can find almost any type of cuisine we like within about a five minute walk.  We are also quite close to suburb called Paddington that is full of shops, restaurants and pubs that are good for a weekend stop-in.  We have movie theatres, grocery stores, 2 butchers, a baker, a fish monger, 3 dry cleaners and at least 3 wine stores within a 15 minute walk.  With all that to offer, how could we leave?