scarroll1888

It's all to do with personal preference and I'm not knocking Boronia or Ferntree Gully but if I were looking in that area I would perfer The Basin which is next to Boronia and FTG.

 

Other suburbs in that area that I would prefer would be Croydon, Montrose or Lilydale.

Great advice Digger thanks!

You seem to know the area well, the missus is working in mulgrave so trying to stay as close as possible

do you happen to know anywhere a little closer to there?

Personally I find some of the outer suburbs very bland, and not what I think of Melbourne. Each to there own though. You do get better value for money for property, to an extent! I have not been to these areas myself but have visited some/many outer suburbs of Melbourne. Some to me have been an eye opener and wondered if I was still in Melbourne, let alone Australia. My own personal opinion which others will probably disagree with.

 

Have you been to these areas or just researched?

 

Commute time to the CBD at those times I think should be fine, but depending on knockoff time could be a bit of a tedious.

 

Try using google maps and put in start location/time and destination, it is pretty accurate.

I haven't been to Melbourne ever haha.

living in Perth wa for the last 4 years and looking for a change.

Would love to spend more on a house and live closer to everything but stamp duty is

to much for me at the moment.

Ferntree Gully is a nice suburb as its close to the Dandenong ranges and has houses on the flat and houses on hills. Good shopping centres, older houses as its an old suburb. Boronia is similar but flatish and a little closer to the CBD. I guess if you are a tradesman you will probably be driving to the city and the freeway is Eastern. Ringwood is a nice suburb as well, very leafy and lots of nice gardens etc. The eastern suburbs are very popular and the price of property does reflect this. I would have a good look around the areas, also try to use the roads in peak traffic in areas you are interested in you will get a better idea of travel times etc. If using the train then take do the train trip and see how it comes up. No-one can tell you if you will be one hour or two hours in the traffic these days in Melbourne as peak tends to have a lot of accidents etc.

 

The Monash freeway is a car park my brother used to drive from Upper Beaconsfield and it sometimes took him 2 hours to get to work depending on what was happening in the traffic.

 

Also have a look at the Bayside suburbs, as a commute its much easier, I have said this so many times. The sea is on one side and no traffic from that side so its definitely a better run and the trains are good as well.

Thanks again petals can you recommend any bayside suburbs?

So i have managed to narrow my search down to these two places.

can anyone advise on me on the positive and negatives of each place please for a family with one 5 year old child.

Also an idea of commute time to cbd for a tradie starting work around 6.30 to 7 am.

thanks

stephen

Thanks for the help so far everyone.

Does anyone know what time building sites open to start work in Melbourne?

Me this missus and 6 year old kid are moving to melbourne in jan.

missus has employment in mulgrave and i will likely be in the cbd so looking

for suggestions of places to live renting at first and then looking to buy with a budget of between 700k -900k.

any help would be greatly appreciated as there are so many option:err: