When Adriana Saraga and Peter O’Brien were looking to move out of Melbourne, they followed the railway tracks.

“When we first started looking for somewhere to live, we were following the V/Line,” O’Brien says. “We just narrowed down the search based on that.”

Both have roles where they can work from home three to four days a week. They say it was this flexibility that allowed them to move out of the city in favour of a more affordable and balanced lifestyle in the regions.

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The couple and their two young children have now called Ballarat home for almost three years. O’Brien says the regional city had everything the family needed: schools, shops and essential infrastructure. “We got a relatively new house

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