Melbourne Suburb Frankston

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Frankston is the gateway to the Mornington Perninsula and is a designated transit centre. This means it has facilities which are used by the wider community around it and people travel into Frankston from all directions.

 

The electrified train line starts at Frankston to the City. Its a regular service although with the curren operators it does get a lot of cancellations. Being the beginning of the line you will always get a seat going into the city in peak hours but probably not coming back for quite a few stations. In peak times there are express trains which do not stop at all stations and therefore the journey is quicker (one hopes so sometimes its not the case though as they all sit outside Flinders Street waiting to go in). Some trains go through the city loop and some do not. You can purchase tickets at designated shops around the place and also from the manned station at Frankston and there are ticket machines. Our transit police are not friendly and its a good idea to read the signs on the train. Putting feet on the seats will get you a heft fine if you are caught. Also not validating tickets. I do not find the trains comfortable but modern stuff is uncomfortable.

 

Frankston is a mismatch of places to live. North Frankston is not considered desirable by lots of people considered roughish but this is not entirely true because it is flat so that anyone who needs to live on flat lives there. Its close to everythng and property is cheaper there.

 

South Frankston is desirable as is Olivers Hill and Gould Street. Expensive housing. Anywhere near Frankston High School is desirable as its a good school and people need to live in the zone for their children to be able to attend it. There are other high schools as well and I believe a lot of children also do very well at them. Lets face it it all comes down to what God gives us to use for a brain anyway.

 

Housing off Heatherhill Road, is ok as well especially at the top. Back of Karingal is quite steep and there are a lot of houses up there that have magnificent views of the bay. Also Whistlestop Estate has houses with great views of the Bay from one of the Courts in there and large houses have been built to take advantage of it. Peninsula Gateway is a nice estate all half acre properties in there. Tahnee Lodge has very nice houses but will be close to the new Frankston Bypass which might cause noise problems in the future.

 

Station can be a bit rough due to the people who use it from everywhere and there are druggies around but now they have a police shop across the road this has helped to keep undesirables away. Also the classical music they play in the subway deters them for some reason they do not appreciate this music.

 

The shopping is good in Frankston and its the second busiest shopping centre in Melbourne although not one of the largest, its just the catchment around Frankston is very large. There are over 100,000 people in the City of Frankston and the population of the Mornington Peninsula also uses its facilities.

 

A lot of British people live in Frankston and its not a lot of eastern or asian people have chosen to settle there.

 

Plenty of churches, schools, private schools, private hospitals, main public hospital for the area, Monash University and TAFE college are in Frankston.

 

There is a large bulk billing doctors clinic in Frankston on the corner roundabout where the library is situate.

 

Frankston has a wonderful support service for pensioners and people who need help and they are lucky to have great amount of staff to carry out these services. My mum used to live in Frankston and had weekly cleaner but since Moving to the Mornington Peninsula its fortnightly as there are not enough people wanting to do this type of work. Frankston is really great for the elderly.

 

There are many gyms in Frankston, swimming pool, cricket club, tennis club, footy club, baseball club, croquet club, bowls, golf courses. It has everything.

 

Lots of places to eat out. The Arts centre is very good and has lots of overseas stars, opera, ballet, plays etc and is very very good.

 

If you have a child who plays an instrument the Peninsula Youth Orchestra is very good, my daughter played with them for several years.

 

Anyone who needs to know anything else about Frankston kindly ask.