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Anyone here local @ Doncaster/Doncaster East???

Me & Mrs thinking to get a property there... mainly attracted due to people saying lots of options for good reasonable schools.

I know transport can be a pain with no train except just bus or car, but apart from that, what about other things?

Security? Local amenities? Parks, gardens? druggies problems?

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Anyone here local @ Doncaster/Doncaster East???

Me & Mrs thinking to get a property there... mainly attracted due to people saying lots of options for good reasonable schools.

I know transport can be a pain with no train except just bus or car, but apart from that, what about other things?

Security? Local amenities? Parks, gardens? druggies problems?

We've lived in the area pretty much all our lives, templestowe, doncaster, doncaster east, mitcham, and now we're building a house in box hill north. Doncaster in general is pretty good, from what I know fairly low in crime rate/theft. Shoppo is of course huge. Nearest train is blackburn, laburnum, box hill stations, and the nearest tram goes to box hill too. Ruffey lake park off george st is quite nice - best overview is to go to google maps and check out everything from that view. There are of course a few slightly dodgy areas/streets but I won't name them in a public forum in case I offend anyone!... but these areas are quite small.

We were going to buy an old house, demolish and build a new house in doncaster to templestowe, but ended up doing that in box hill north, just over the eastern fwy from doncaster. Walking distance to a primary school, 2 secondary schools, laburnum station, about halfway between box hill central and shoppo.

Worst thing now for buyers is the prices have gone massively haywire in the last 12 months (recently a knock down development 2 streets away from us sold for $350,000 more than we paid for our almost identical development site), but with the recent change in foreign investment laws and increasing interest rates, may stay stable for a little while?

Tim

rs73 Grand Master

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Oh and is the Doncaster park+ride any good/safe? We past by but looks like the parking space is not that large and would guess it would be packed quite early... but I could be wrong - if it could be bigger than what it looks...

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I'm in donny east. Good area in my books. We got broken into in 2000 but you have those risks everywhere.

I went to school in blackburn but don't have kids so I haven't looked at that side of thing.

I know people that use doncaster park and ride. Seems like a good thing if you get there early.

Good luck finding a place for a decent price though. I read that last year East Doncaster had the highest growth in melbourne for the last part of 2009.

Check out this: http://www.realestateview.com.au/propertyd...east/index.html

Average prices is over 700k now!

rs73 Grand Master

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yeah I know... if it wasn't in preparation for future kid's school, I wouldn't wanna move again...

wife says move now, while we can still find price circa $700k, if we wait another 3-5 years it may all be too late...

look at Camberwell, I saw what I would literally consider a run down dog shack asking for $1million.

all cos those parents who wanna send theirs to Melbourne Grammar or PLC.

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I'd look at areas around Doncaster East. Donvale, lower templestowe, box hill north, blackburn, nunawading etc.

Although they are starting to get drug money for those areas too. There is a big influx of asian money coming in which is driving prices up. (Not being racist here, just the facts)

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hopefully the FIRB decision can kerb that. I'm asian but like the rest of you white boys/girls, africans, afghans, indians, lankans, lebs, viet, jap, chinese, arabs, etc... I'm a local working pop/mom who paid our taxes and I don't like the ideas of overseas fellow who doesn't even live in australia or doesn't pay tax here, coming in and stock piling houses and cut us all out of the market, be them asian or not.

that issue apart... I don't mind asian monies but....

when you say drug monies... r u serious or just joking ? pm me if u don't wanna elaborate here... we're about to look at a few place in doncaster east but dun wanna walk into a 'trap'...

maybe i'm a bit too paranoid but with a toddler to raise.... hope you'll understand where i'm coming from.

oh yeah, it looks like it'll be donny east, doncaster is now getting a bit way too expensive...

rs73 Grand Master

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I was only joking about drug money. I just mean really expensive haha.

I thought Donny East was more expensive that the donny area? What's FIRB?

Oh thank's god... you got me really worried there....

saw 4 places around east donny today.... impressed, close to school, quiet / peaceful surroundings

not to mention INFORMATION OVERLOAD from all those places, etc...

still have to look around a lot more places...

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didnt read many of the posts, but ive lived in donny my hole life, and its a great place to live, great shops great people...cops arnt too bad, the pines area of doncaster is a really nice area...anyways goodluck with what u do

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