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Eden N.S.W a small seaside town i visited here once and could easily have stayed,also a must visit is Tasmania i would recommend the wonderful small city [i believe]of Luanceston,this place and it's parks has some unforgetable memories for me and the people are very friendly......lastly it's a long way but Alice Springs,at night this lovely place is like an star gazers paradise,again nice people, very small but in my opinion well worth the time
as for NZ this is a very nice place and fairly safe as well ,i would recommend wellington this is one of the nicest city's i have ever visited [i lived in new town near the zoo for a while]but in winter it IS extremly wet and VERY wind.But there are many good places to visit such as Nelson [north of the south island] keri keri north
island, waiheke is worth some time lots of nice beaches, Auckland is a nice clean city but it is very small by many standards,the only thing i found with NZ [and to some extent Australia]is that after a while i started to feel rather a long way from any where NZ is really in the middle of know where and some like this and others never get used to it
Probably a spam-bot, a dead giveaway is somebody giving both a first and surname - no normal person does that on an internent forum.
The English is also very poor, suggestive that English is not the first language of this clandestine bot - despite the Anglocised user name.
Everything on your list except skiing is available in Coffs Harbour on the NSW Mid North Coast. It's about halfway between Sydney and Brisbane and has plenty of direct flights from Sydney.
It's beautiful, the weather is perfect, in the 70 and 80s all year round, only January in the middle of summer has high humidity but the rest of the year is great.
Coffs Harbour is a city, not a town. It has about 80,000 inhabitants. Hardly any high-rise (mostly houses and some blocks of up to 3 storeys).
There's 60 miles of beaches and coastline, around a dozen national parks including the stunning Dorrigo National Park with world heritage rainforests and many hiking trails, there are several cinemas, there's a theatre, national touring bands and musicians, an airport, a university (Southern Cross), loads of award-winning restaurants and cafes for casual or fine dining, many with water views, boutique shopping in the city centre and some surrounding villages (Sawtell, Bellingen, Woolgoolga), a large shopping centre on the edge of the city,
I'm European and have lived all over, but been in Coffs Harbour for the last 5 years and absolutely LOVING it - it's got everything we want and we're into hiking and biking too.
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Both Coffs Harbour and the other big Mid North Coast town, Port Macquarie, fit most of the OPs bill. There are a couple of campuses in PM now.
I am interested if any of Australian towns are similar to North Conway in New Hampshire in the US. Can you help please?
North Conway is a town of less than 2,500 people, there is no way any Australian is going to know anything about it unless they have lived in New Hampshire.
On the original question, the OP is long gone from the thread ,but Mid North Coast towns in NSW are very good.
If you don't mind a bit of cold weather, Armidale in the New England area of NSW is a beautiful old world university town of about 25,000 people.
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