Settle in Victoria?

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Batako

G'day,

Most Melbournians are looking around the East, South and Southeast suburbs, so the price of the properties on those areas are pretty expensive.

The inner suburbs mostly are old houses, pretty dense and small, with expensive prices due to their closeness to the CBD.

I used to live in Collingwood and Clifton Hill (the inner suburbs) with my parents. When I got married in 2000, we were looking for our own place. The obvious path will be to look around the area that I have been lived in. However after searching for awhile we realised that with our budget of about $300K, we could only find a run-down house that we need to renovate extensively. We were looking further and further towards East and South East area, until we reach Rowville and felt that it becomes ridiculously too far, not to mention the bad peak-hour traffic report that you usually hear from the radio on the M1.

We finally settle in Point Cook, west of Melbourne. It is about 20min from the city via Westgate Freeway with plenty of new estates being opened, affordable price, close to the sea and infrastructure that aimed for young families. Just try and have a look yourself if you are interested to find out.

I am enclosing 2 websites that lists available properties around Melbourne. The 3rd website is one of the main real estate agent in Point Cook area, if you are interested to see around the area. The last link is the article from The Age, one of the main newspaper in Melbourne in regards to criminal rate around Melbourne suburbs.

In regards to primary schools there are 3 choices: Public/Government, Christian/Catholic and Private. Public schools have pretty much the same standard wherever you go and they are the cheapest alternative. You usually just enrolled to the one closer to where you live. The list of government schools are here: http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/schoolsonline/Browse.asp
Private are the most expensive, since on top of the tuition fee, you will still have to buy books, uniform,laptops etc. The list for non-government schools are here: http://www.isd.com.au/.
I am also enclosing some job websites as well if you need it. They are as follows:
www.seek.com.au
www.mycareer.com.au
www.careerone.com.au

Good luck and welcome to Melbourne. I've been living in Melbourne for 16 years, visited some other capital cities in Australia and still giving Melbourne 10/10 for the best city in Australia.

MarvelousMelbourne

My vote goes to South Melbourne / St Kilda Road!
Plenty of transport, restaurant and amenities abound, including of course our magnificent Royal Botanical Garden!
Btw, where are you coming from if you don't mind me asking this?

TonyB

Yeah, the previous answer is correct. Move to Qld and live with normal people like Pauline Hanson and the Corby family.

Gotta love those Qld'ers. Weird one day, Totally bizarre the next.

skye

Geelong is a lovely town, only 70km from melb, close to beach good shopping and food. Good night life, cheaper housing and nice schools for the kiddies

tarz

If you have a 12 year old I would suggest looking at a outer suburb more than Melbourne itself. I have always lived in the outer eastern suburbs and love the areas. Ringwood is a great suburb, the eastern freeway is being extended out to ringwood, plus when the ringwood bypass and scoresby/frankston freeway is completed it will make it really easy to travel around the eastern suburbs quickly.
There are a great mix of schools out in the eastern suburbs as well, plus a great train network. Depending on if you want to send your child to public or private schools there are a few that I would recommend. Around Ringwood there are (public) Ringwood Secondary College (yes there was the teacher who slept with the student, but that is the only negative thing that I have heard!!!) Parkwood Secondary is also a very good school. (Private) will take your pick, Yarra Valley Grammer is a fantastic school, they have a really high focus on sports and the arts which is good, also there is Tintern Grammer (girls) or Southwood Grammer (boys) really good rep's for both.
Housing is beautiful in these areas, depending on your budget you can move into the upmarket area in Ringwood (Wonga Park or Warrandyte) or Ringwood North is nice for families, so is Croydon Hills.
I could keep going on for ages, but I recommend just take a drive out and spend a day having lunch and looking around the area and see if you and your family like it.

leb&proud

come to roxburghpark i love it n i live there too its close to everything n theres lovely houses u can take a look am sure ull like it

FORKY

head west very affordable and on the up,and forget queensland 10 years behind the times and a little bit of a red neck city,if you you don,t like melb try sydney

Darcy R

Go for the eastern suburbs - there are plenty of good schools, lots of public transport and it's close to everything and the people are great. Mitcham and Mont Albert are both very nice

idontlike_idiots

they are a strange mob in Victoria i recommend you move to Queensland

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