LAUNCESTON is the most family-friendly city in Australia with cheap housing and good education outweighing low incomes and high unemployment, a new report has found.
The Suncorp Bank report, titled the "Family Friendly City Index", found that Launceston was the No.1 city with Hobart coming in at seventh spot out of 30 of Australia's most populous cities.
Former Hobart man Brendan Vince says he is the biggest convert to Launceston.
"I used to bag it out when I lived in Hobart, but now I love the place," he said.
Mr Vince, a teacher, and wife Joanna, a university lecturer, moved from Hobart about eight years ago.
They have a son Zachary.
"It is a great place for kids, everything is so close and housing is much cheaper than Hobart," Mr Vince said.
The index looked at 10 indicators including education, health, crime rates, income, connectivity and unemployment.
Canberra was the top capital city, in second place, with Perth and Adelaide equal fifth.
Of the big three, Melbourne was ranked 14th, ahead of Sydney (23rd) and Brisbane (24th).
Suncorp Bank executive manager Craig Fenwick said the survey found that increasingly the larger, stressful, crowded urban jungles and under-serviced eastern seaboard capitals were being upstaged by regional cities.
"The results reveal for the first time that many regional cities have a better balance of job opportunities, housing affordability, income, school sizes, health services, broadband access and lower crime rates," he said.
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