Mart888 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Anyone live in (or know) Lara or Clifton Springs? Would you recommend them as nice places to live for families? Are the schools good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 My brother in law lives in Lara, they seem happy enough. Their kid went to Geelong College so they opted for private, don't know if that says anything about the public school there. They always said they wanted to live in Anakie though, probably more to do with the name than anything else I suspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 We're in the process of building in Lara, and have spoken to a lot of people about the place, and visited a lot. Heard nothing bad, and a lot of good. Quiet, friendly, no major problems - in fact we've heard so much positive we think we might be walking into some sort of weird twilight zone... It's a small town, but has supermarkets etc, and is growing fast, with lots of new housing releases. Flat as a pancake there, but hills and coast nearby. Our daughter will be past school age by the time we get out there, so don't know too much, but whilst the local secondary in Lara is no great shakes on paper, there is a secondary in Corio (a working class suburb on the north of Geelong, so just south of Lara), that has seen huge recent improvements in its results. The worst thing you could say about Lara is it might be too quiet for teenagers, but Geelong is close, and accessible by car or train, and the centre of Melbourne is 45 minutes in the other direction. Geelong is a nice city, and one of the big advantages for Lara. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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