If you wanted to stay in Victoria (lol, don't), but wanted to move somewhere more... Sane, and also with good job prospects - I would recommend Warnambool, hey?

Good place, doesn't vote Labor, has everything you could need in a small city... That'd honestly probably be my pick, for your state. Or Mallacoota, but job prospects there almost certainly aren't as good. But really almost anywhere out of Metro Melbourne (excluding Daylesford/Hepburn, which is like, gay central, now...) has to be better than what you've currently got, with Andrews... :-/