Sydneysider Moving To Vic

[RCHOO]

Berwick..a touch of country with a city feeling..

[RON JEREMY]

Nothing wrong with Frankston, Seaford, Carrum etc still reasonable and you have the beach lifestyle, nothing beats a walk along the beach, whether in winter or summer. There's also easy freeway access into the city more so with Eastlink rumoured to open up early in first half of 2008, as there will be times you will want to get into the city, to watch a major sporting event NRL game, theatre, whatever your cup of tea.

Don't go to prefab suburbs like Berwick and further out, too boring, too much sameness they are like mass non descrip suburbs from America with no capital growth as thats where young couples who can't afford anywhere else are suffering from mortgage stress.

Edited August 26, 2007 by RON JEREMY

[-R32GTR-]

awesome thanks guys

Im gonna have to print out a map and mark out all these areas so i know what Im looking at.

I've lived in what is generally considered a "bad" part of sydney my whole life and never had an issue so i guess bad suburbs are all relative to experiences.

Like i said i dont need to be within close distance of melb CBD.

Yes will be looking to move back to sydney within 3-4 years so growth would be nice... thats why i want an el cheapo house in Melb, so my mortgage hovers around 1k/month allowing me to save for an overpriced sydney house.

Im not a fan of new housing developments either, there are plenty here and the value will never go up.

Im heading to VIC at the end of the month to check out prospective living areas

[adznight]

If you have more money to spend you could start looking at Frankston, although I haven't heard good things about the suburb.

I'm not sure if the northern suburbs of Melbourne have similar prices to what your looking for...

Frankston gets a really bad wrap. I've worked here for 8 years now (not lived) and the place us really changing. Mark my words Frankson and it's surrounding areas will be worth a mint one day. I'm considering buying an investment property in the area. It's close to the beach, the local council is pouring money into the place and there are many new developments including high rise apartments and a new marina going in. Admittedly there are some bad areas and drugo's around but it's slowly being cleaned up and every area has it's down side.

[RON JEREMY]

Frankston gets a really bad wrap. I've worked here for 8 years now (not lived) and the place us really changing. Mark my words Frankson and it's surrounding areas will be worth a mint one day. I'm considering buying an investment property in the area. It's close to the beach, the local council is pouring money into the place and there are many new developments including high rise apartments and a new marina going in. Admittedly there are some bad areas and drugo's around but it's slowly being cleaned up and every area has it's down side.

WOT HE SAID

Frankston is a bit like Richmnond or St Kilda once was, has its seedy druggy side, skanky hookers in skanky brothels. But look what happens on weekends in Richmond and St Kilda, people from all over Melbourne swarm in for the restuarants, cafes etc. I was down by Frankston Pier outside Sophia's on Sunday it was packed and had a great vibe going. Every suburb has its bad pockets in isolated parts but it gives the suburb a real edge. Frankston is definitely on the way up.

[CEF11E]

I will also be moving to Melbourne in around 6 months and will be buying. I have done quite a bit of research and looking around.

I am looking for a quiet suburb within a reasonable distance to the city that I can buy a 3bd house for between 300~350.

I have come up with a shortlist of Reservoir, Rosanna, Preston around that area. nice quiet area and if you can get a place on the train line you are 20 min from the city. even closer if you drive.

Really keen to get down there and buy a place. I lived in Sydney for 5 years and really liked it even if it is a bit of a SH*^FIGHT.

[Kaz200]

haha quiet.. Rosanna is quiet.. Preston/Reservoir.. not so much Burnout, commodore, P plater area..

Not good security around there either.

From memory, Preston is in the top 5 or maybe top 10 for most car thefts etc.

In the last 6 months before I moved from Thornbury (right next to Preston), there was 3 cars put up on bricks and their wheels were stolen, and one burnt out car.. on my street alone! This was about 2 years ago, they were pulling down alot of houses and building tiny units in their place.

Epping is alright. Lots of new housing areas are available for building on now. Easy access to the freeway.

House prices will only go up in the next 5 years, especially now they have redeveloped Epping plaza and fixed the bottleneck on the freeway.

It takes maybe 25-30min to Exhibition St via citylink and across top of the city... depending on time of day. Takes longer to drive across the city than it does to go down the freeway!

On Monday I went from Swanston St at 5pm to Thomastown in 15mins via citylink

[abu]

Give you a few areas where not to move to;

Laverton

Sunshine

Cranbourne

Boronia

Footscray

Noble Park

Doveton

Pakenham

Werribee

Frankston

[Kaz200]

also saff_cossie is right about geelong.. if you need to drive to melb every morning.. forget it!

However if you're not driving to the city.. Norlane and Bell Park are nice areas, locals are nice as well.. more of a 'country' attitude compared to city suburbs.

And yes, anything West in Melb is the same as Western suburbs of Sydney.. not recommended...

Bayside is equivalent of the north shore with prices to match

Werribee smells like the abattoir...

[N1GTR]

Well sydney house prices are hitting me hard and i think its time to get out of here for a few years.

Once you get out of the sydney market it will be harder to get back in

[RON JEREMY]

Give you a few areas where not to move to;

Laverton

Sunshine

Cranbourne

Boronia

Footscray

Noble Park

Doveton

Pakenham

Werribee

Frankston

Dude agree with you on some of these, but how about adding a line or two after each suburb enlightening us all as to why you have come to your conclusions.

[ferni]

If you can work from anywhere and you just want a nice bit of land and house for your dogs - then why not consider something further away? Out country, or up in the hills somewhere..... just another idea.

[allblitz]

Give you a few areas where not to move to;

Laverton

Sunshine

Cranbourne

Boronia

Footscray

Noble Park

Doveton

Pakenham

Werribee

Frankston

You forgot Broadmeadows

[W0rp3D]

Give you a few areas where not to move to;

Laverton

Sunshine

Cranbourne

Boronia

Footscray

Noble Park

Doveton

Pakenham

Werribee

Frankston

Thats a lot of suburbs, you must move around a lot, if not you are purely going on reputation and the only thing that proves is your ignorance.

[dmr]

I have come up with a shortlist of Reservoir, Rosanna, Preston around that area. nice quiet area and if you can get a place on the train line you are 20 min from the city. even closer if you drive.

unfortunately, these are my hoods.

like Kaz180 said.,

rosanna is nice n quiet. unless you live near the west heidelberg side.. which you don't want to, beleive me!

reservoir is expensive and you don't get alot of dickheads coming out at night. one side is all older and settled in families, the other is a whole lot of italians and so forth.. the community is pretty easy going

preston is f**ked. on average 1 car per day is stolen from Northland, the local shopping centre

expect a whole lot of bogans and commo's. you get the picture.

hope this helps

[dmr]

You forgot Broadmeadows

what he said

[_Ryan_]

hills, or areas like warburton, woori yallock, lysterfield, beaconsfield...

[-R32GTR-]

And yes, anything West in Melb is the same as Western suburbs of Sydney.. not recommended...

I live in sydney western suburbs and have never had a problem. Just depends what sort of street you're in, there are some bad ones here and some good ones like mine. I doubt melb's western suburbs are any worse than here.

As for getting out then coming back.. yeah i know. prices will rise here whilst Im gone but Im hoping by buying cheap elsewhere i'll be able to save. And i plan for my income to increase substantially whilst Im living away from everything that distracts me here

I was looking at Your Mortgage magazine today and they had an article about some of the cheapest suburbs in Melb (no mention of what they're like though).

This is whats listed:

Melton - median price only 185k! Looked on domain and found some decent looking homes there.

Deer Park

St Albans - whats bad about this place? Seems to get a bad wrap? Is it like Bankstown in Sydney? If so i'll give it a miss, otherwise could be ok?

Broadmeadows

Cranbourne

Sunshine West

Werribee

Rosebud

Carrum Downs

Rye

Most of the above were showing growth over the past 12 months and all had average annual growth of over 8%.

I've increased my budget to 240k max as well. I'll get a better home for that price and its not a huge difference in repayments from 200k.

I've been looking at Adelaide as well but Melb seems to be the better choice (though i do like Adelaide) as far as return on investment when it comes time to sell.

Edited August 31, 2007 by -R32GTR-

[inark]

Out of that list the only ones i would consider would be Rye, Carrum Downs (forgetting the shooting not long back) and Rosebud.

Werribe is a sh*tfarm... literally.

Scumshine takes after its name... and is west

the rest.... not even worth mentioning

[adznight]

Give you a few areas where not to move to;

Laverton

Sunshine

Cranbourne

Boronia

Footscray

Noble Park

Doveton

Pakenham

Werribee

Frankston

Yeah I'd also like to know what your reasoning is there...

Some of those area's will be very big money makes, the problem is everyone thinks short term and want's a palace in Toorak as thier first house, it's just unrealistic.

Boom suburbs I can think of over the next 5-10 years will be -

• Frankston
  
• Croydon
  
• Ringwood
  
• Footscray
  
• Seaford
  

And where are you from might I ask? Toorak?

I'll start with some reasons for you that I can think of -

Laverton - ?

Sunshine - ?

Cranbourne - Too far away

Boronia - ?

Footscray - Drugo's/scum bags (but this area WILL boom, check the property reports and financial figures)

Noble Park - Yeah that's easy

Doveton - Easy too

Pakenham - Too far from anything

Werribee - Long way away and it smells

Frankston - Drugo's/ scum bags (but this area WILL boom, check the property reports and financial figures)