smilingsenthil

We migrated from Singapore to Melbourne last year. As I did not have enough time and started work in the CBD as soon as we arrived we rented an apartment in Port Melbourne. The rental is pretty high and the rooms are small. I have 3 kids who find it difficult to play around. As my job contract ended and I'm now working from home (Forex Trading) we are planning to move to a suburb that has new big houses and we shortlisted Point Cook. We went to Alamanda Estate and really liked the new houses, Alamanda K-9 College, Alamanda Club (free access to GYM, pool etc) and wanted to move there for the new year. However, I just happen to hear that point cook and few other western suburbs have lots of snakes and that information really scared us. Those snakes seem to be poisonous ones. When I researched more in the internet (see the links below), it does seem to be true. The only question is how life threatening is it. How does people move in there without worrying about the snakes ? Having come from Singapore, the concept of spotting snakes in a garden or garage or backyard is extremely scary for us that too poisonous snakes. Please help with your feedback as it would really help us deciding. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/west/reported-rise-in-the-number-of-eastern-brown-snakes-found-in-wyndham-backyards/news-story/638b4952bc2e44a39be89aa3a9b5e330 https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/29807186/snakes-invade-melbourne-suburbs/ http://www.thecitizen.org.au/news/reclaimed-snake-habitat-putting-pets-risk-say-experts