Cobar

Being a beginning teacher, I decided to apply to come to Cobar. I thought I would just come here, do a little stint of teaching and then go back to the city, I’ve just loved it so much, you just feel like you belong. 

The community has been really welcoming, really friendly, everyone is willing to help you out, everyone is always trying to get you involved in different activities.

Once a week we have park run on a Saturday morning, on a Sunday morning we have the women’s swim club, then we go out for coffee afterwards.  I really like the calm, community vibes here and I can definitely see myself staying rural.

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Cobar offers a lot for the families and they've got a small hospital, entertainment centres and they've got clubs as well. There's good sports activity going on all throughout the year and they've got coaching classes for kids and they've got all the co-curricular activity that kid can enjoy, and as well for the adults as well another for the elderly, so I feel like living up here is a great opportunity to be in the bush. Now what sets Cobar apart is basically its diverse culture, mining town, its topographic situation and the resources that Cobar has is to establish a family, that's what sets it apart.

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There are many things that set Cobar apart from other regional towns in the area, we've got a large range of community activities, so we have festival of the miners ghosts and lots of markets on the weekends, we're really lucky in terms of an educational perspective that our teachers have the opportunity to get to know our students apart from the four walls of a classroom,  so a lot of our amazing teachers are part of you know coaching football or the soccer teams and really get involved in the community and we get to see our students as a whole person, not just you know within the school setting and that really helps us to provide more of a quality education when we get to know the students on a deeper level and know their families and it's just a really special feeling.

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What sets Cobar apart is that it's a really fantastic little community, it's like a big family really, so we've lots of good sporting activities for the kids in the summer and in the winter, as well and everybody gets involved. The parents come down and get involved, the kids get involved, lots of fun - you don't have to get in your car and travel for an hour through traffic in the morning to get to the sport on a weekend, or in the evenings, whatever, you can jump in five minutes before you have to be here and you can get here and I guess the other thing is a little bit more value for money I think here with a lot of that stuff because it is a bit cheaper basically, you know we're not paying all the extra fees that from what I understand from all my relatives and friends in the city it's a lot more expensive, so great value for money.

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Cobar is a very different out of many of the small country towns that you come across. I think Cobar is very multicultural town, it's got a lot happening here for a small town. You've got the mining industry and lots of families that it brings, we've got great stuff for families to do, I think it's a really family friendly town.

Let's say I've lived in lots of different places, we've lived city, we've lived in suburbia, we've lived interstate, overseas, obviously and Cobar the place that we've chosen to be.

We've been here for 10 years and we have no plans to leave, it again it all comes back to that community - it is a really good community here and I can't, I don't, we've no reason to live anywhere else.

On the weekends I normally I'll hang downtown with my friends, you know we'll go to a cafe or something have lunch and then we normally walk around town. I will go to the pool which is a really good facility.

I play netball on Fridays I do dance, I do contemporary at ballet - point and I also do more in Villa voices which is run through school so they'll come out to Outback towns and so they'll want to run a workshop and then if you're lucky enough to get in it's a really good opportunity. You have to do singing you get to do Tycho's which is Japanese drumming and you get to do fan dancing which is amazing and you get broadcasted everywhere so it's a really good thing to care what I have

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