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Accommodation in Melbourne/Victoria
February 06 2017
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RHP User
9 years ago
Plenty of nice safe places to live - are you needing to travel to the CBD each day?Good to be on a tram line or train line, so close proximity to those modes of transport is good. What about Ivanhoe, Northcote, Fitzroy, Brunswick? Do you like your suburbs leafy and green? and hilly? What about Eltham, Warrandyte? Do you like to live near parks / walking & bike tracks? Hawthorn, South Yarra, Cremorne, Richmond? There's lots of other choices too.
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RHP User
9 years ago
Having lived in places like Ivanhoe, Northcote and Richmond I can thoroughly recommend them all...they all have great access to the city. Of course they can be a premium price due to proximity to the city. I also lived bayside in Elsternwick which is a great spot. The further out you go the more you get for your money
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RHP User
9 years ago
Hi Sweetgem, we'd love to have you in Melb. As cruiser has asked, do you need to be near the CBD or are you prepared to travel if you do need the CBD? What do you like to be around, beach, mountains, leafy semi rural, food, inner city? We have it all and mostly all safe. I'm a single woman living alone and I feel safe, like everywhere...there are spots I'd say don't go to but hard to say without a bit more of what you really like. 😄 - Posted from rhpmobile
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boobsandbusted
9 years ago
tell us a bit more about your likes and dislikes in an area that you would or wouldnt like to live in ,,is public transport important ,do you like trams and a built up area ,or more of a country feel , best you write more of what your ideal is and then we could suggest some matches ,
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sweetgem
9 years ago
Cruiser and boobs_or_bust for your responses and helps 🙏🏼😊 I would hope to live in an area where there is a tram line and can conveniently access it as well. I won't be having a car and so public transport would be my only mean of transportation. Considering that I would be living on my own, I do want to be in an area where the neighbourhood is a safe and friendly environment. I do like the nature, so somewhere about 20-30 minutes on the tram and away from the city would be nice. I had been to visit a friend in Albert Park many moons ago, it was nice and quiet, yet not too far away from the city. However, I only went there to visit a friend, so I don't know if it's an ideal area for a single woman to live in terms of safety. I don't mind a new built up area as long as the environment is safe and friendly 😊 a friend of mine has mentioned Footscray, which I would like to get a bit of info on that area too if possible please? Please be informed that I am only making plans at the moment, as part of my preparation for the time when I become orphan/parentless 🙃 - Posted from rhpmobile
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AnnieWhichway
9 years ago
Not the safest. Still a drug hotspot. You'll need to spend sometime here when the time comes. Your pie friends down here will certainly help you out and take you around to get a good idea. Pie friends are amazing
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sweetgem
9 years ago
Makes me look arrogant in this case 😝 Thank you bignjolly and Misskez_2 for your responses too 🙏🏼🙏🏼 your comments did not yet come through at the time I made my second post. Hence I was not ignoring you 😛 Auntie Annie, as always, I love you xx I used to live in a drug hotspot up here, don't want to relive the scary experience again! 😬 so Footscray is crossed off my list now. Thank you Auntie xx - Posted from rhpmobile
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boobsandbusted
9 years ago
I'm sure some pie friends,would help out with a try before you buy in an area,when the time is right ,we have Victoria covered and yes Footscray is a no for me as well,no questions - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Eltham is also a nogo zone ... it is fast becoming an APEX gang haven .. they are moving out asap. - Posted from rhpmobile
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sweetgem
9 years ago
Mr & Mrs b for your help 🙏🏼 Things are happening fast and unexpected! So, I am just exploring my options at the moment, in preparation for where to from the point when my current first priority no longer exists. Life will be another big phase of changes when I lose the one purpose that I'm currently holding! 😢 but life must go on and so options and plans must be drawn early on, instead of waiting unto the time comes. - Posted from rhpmobile
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sweetgem
9 years ago
Uneventful for the info. I certainly do not want to go near any troubled zone again! Had lived in one for half a decade and that was enough! 😬 - Posted from rhpmobile
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sweetgem
9 years ago
May I ask, what are the suburbs on the #75 tram route please? Any recommendation for that tram line please? One of my top favourite restaurants is out that way, so it would be good to live on that route 😛 yep, eating good food is my favourite time 😜 - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Time to let that go. I live on the border of Seddon/Yarraville which are the suburbs, backing onto the notorious Footscray, which I admit in the past, had a past, but no longer. I encourage all to take a walk on the wild side which is Footscray. Apartments are going up rapidly, divine award winning restaurants like Copper Pot and Up in Smoke are opening up, roof top bars are now the norm (Back Alley Sallys) , intimate wine bars in Barkly St, and the best awarding winning pub meals are on offer at the Plough Hotel just down the road from the Whitten Oval, home of the current AFL Premiers, the Doggies. I have in the past, lived in Brunswick, Fitzroy and Collingwood. All beautiful suburbs, but horrendously expensive now rent wise as they are beyond trendy. All three suburbs, I was robbed at and my car broken into, several times. I also encountered heap of drug issues in these suburbs as well. Drug use or dealing knows no imaginary borders. I've been living in the fancy end of Footscray (Seddon) since 2001 and I've never had any probs whatsoever as a single woman. I feel totally safe. I bought my little 2 bedroom miners cottage (renovated) in 2001 for $102,000 and now's it worth in the 600's, not a bad return. The real estate agent told me this would be the best buy of my life and he was bang on back then. Seddon , Yarraville, West / Middle Footscray and Footscray are the boom suburbs for now, and will be the "Fitzroy of the West" in less than 5 years. Rent is still affordable here, you wont need to share a residence. Footscray of which you could also encompass the suburbs of Seddon, Yarraville and West Footscray are only 8 kms from the CBD (you can ride a bike like I do to work in the CBD, lots of bike paths) , serviced by 2 train lines plus the Vline from Geelong and endless trams to the CBD and other shopping precedents like Highpoint . There's two Uni campuses, nearby offering excellent facilities to the Public (Victoria Uni gym, library etc) The shopping is cheaper than the CBD with the terrific Footscray markets offering up cheaper and more varied fresh food than Vic markets. There's also the option of popping down to the beautiful seaside suburb of Willy (Williamstown) which is only a quick train, car drive or ferry ride away from the CBD, offering stunning views across the bay to the CBD and again as is the case in Melbourne, more endless restaurants and cafes to whet your appetite. Yarraville is very much a village suburb, with the community embracing the new little mall built outside the famous art deco Sun Theatre, and is home to the best Indian and Italian restaurants I've ever eaten at and way way cheaper than the overrated tourist trap of Lygon St (although one cannot beat Brunettis cakes) Yarraville is where they filmed the "The Wrong Girl" tv series, which recently screened on Channel 10. Lots of retro and antique shopping. Yarraville rocks. As is always the case, the West of most cities has/had a stigma attached to it, as it did in Sydney (think Newtown and Glebe ) and what one wouldn't give to live in places like Balmain or the other suburbs I just mentioned now which 15 years ago people would have frowned at. For variety, upbeat, cheap, accessible and safe place, West is Best, but we just don't want to tell too many more people. We are still trying to hang onto this gem for ourselves. I've heard West Brunswick is also the go, but again, get in quick cause its all changing. But wherever you settle Sweet Gem, I'm sure you will make it your home. Good Luck with it all.
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boobsandbusted
9 years ago
And look at the route map ,it goes through some suburbs that are very nice including hawthawn east ,and camberwell which are safe and have some great restaurants And plenty of them - Posted from rhpmobile
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boobsandbusted
9 years ago
Certain Tram lines link to others pretty easy ,Malvern or Malvern east is only a skip away from from that route or may even have one that goes that way ,not sure on price or Budget but along the same corridor could be Armadale And Sth Yarra , public transport in That whole area is as good as it gets anywhere .imo . There's a brand new building complex going up of apartments on the corner of Burke road and Malvern road , that's where I'd go if I was starting out in Melbourne ,near train lines ,2 different tram lines to the best food places and suburbs and near the entrances To the freeway in and outbound from The city if you want to use a Taxi - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Would I think you arrogant Sweetgem, time delays factored in to replies so all good here. I don't really know the area on tram route 75, I live bayside, Albert park/ south Melb are nice areas, I feel they are safe. I grew up in that area, my parents are still in Sth Melb and they rarely have trouble, I think rental prices would be rather high. - Posted from rhpmobile
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ArtsyLusttty
9 years ago
Goes from CBD > Richmond > Hawthorn > Camberwell > Burwood > Vermont South. s3d :-) - Posted from rhpmobile
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ArtsyLusttty
9 years ago
I suggest you look at the Tram route map. Look at it under Public Transport Victoria. s3d - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Frankston and Footscray are twins ..... Both fucked lol Shepparton is too don't worry....but it's 2hrs north lol - Posted from rhpmobile
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sweetgem
9 years ago
For the useful info on route 75 🙏🏼 I always have that line on my mind, as I always go down that route at least once each time I visit Melbourne. So, I think I know where to start searching for accommodation now :) - Posted from rhpmobile
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sweetgem
9 years ago
Too funny 😂😂 I'll sure avoid any areas that start with letter F lol - Posted from rhpmobile
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sweetgem
9 years ago
For the info and your direction for where to check out the tram route map 🙏🏼 - Posted from rhpmobile
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sweetgem
9 years ago
For your detailed response with so much info to take note of. Your comment is truly appreciated 🙏🏼 Perhaps what I need to do, like what Auntie Annie has suggested, is to wait until the time comes, then I get there and check out the places myself before deciding where to stay, etc. and I will go and check out Footscray and feel it myself, when the time comes 😊 - Posted from rhpmobile
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tall60
9 years ago
Hi Sweetgem...always like reading your civil forum comments. If u want some more specific info about melb suburbs ...realestate dot com.au and the other similar sites usually have suburb profiles,average rents etc etc...google throws up similar suburbs in different cities. Of course nothing beats on the ground investigation...good luck
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RHP User
9 years ago
Footscray west. Western suburbs 4 life. Inner east suburbs for pussies. - Posted from rhpmobile
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