Where is the best suburb to live in melbourne, australia?

Question

I'm looking into emigrating to Australia and Melbourne seems the best place to move to based on my job prospects (graphic design), I have a wife and 2 kids, 1 of school age.

Answer 1

G'day,

Most Melbournians are looking around the East, South and Southeast side, so the price of the properties on those sides are pretty expensive. Lilydale, as the first answerer mentioned, is in one of the those area.

The inner suburbs are old houses, pretty dense and small, with expensive prices due to their closeness to the CBD.

I used to live in Collingwood and Clifton Hill (the inner suburbs) with my parents. When I got married in 2000 and looking for our own place. The obvious path will be to look around the area that I have been lived in. However after searching for awhile we realised that with our budget of about $300K, we could only find a run-down house that we need to renovate extensively. We were looking further and further towards East and South East area, until we reach Rowville and felt that it becomes ridiculously too far, not to mention the peak-hour traffic report that you usually hear from the radio on the M1 freeway.

We finally settle in Point Cook, west of Melbourne. It is about 20min from the city via Westgate Freeway with plenty of new estates being opened, affordable price, close to the sea and infrastructure that aimed for young families. Just try and have a look yourself if you are interested to find out.

I am enclosing 2 websites that lists available property around Melbourne. The 3rd website is one of the main real estate in Point Cook area, if you are interested to see around the area. The last link is the article from The Age, one of the main newspaper in Melbourne in regards to criminal rate around Melbourne suburbs.

In regards to primary schools there are 3 choices: Public/Government, Christian/Catholic and Private. Public schools have pretty much the same standard wherever you go and they are the cheapest alternative. You usually just enrolled to the one closer to where you live. The list of government schools are here: http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/schoolsonline/Browse.asp
Private are the most expensive, since on top of the tuition fee, you will still have to buy books, uniform,laptops etc. The list for non-government schools are here: http://www.isd.com.au/.

I am also enclosing some job websites as well if you need it. They are as follows:
www.seek.com.au
www.mycareer.com.au
www.careerone.com.au

Good luck and welcome to Melbourne. I've been living in Melbourne for 16 years, visited some other capital cities in Australia and still giving Melbourne 10/10 for the best city in Australia :)

Answer 2

I lived in Lilydale for 4 years. It was a great place. It was on the edge of beautiful wine country and some of the best driving and motorcycle roads in the world. Nearby entertainment and shopping was easily accessible and housing prices were good. It was also easy to travel to the bay and the Melbourne.

I also lived in the Geelong area. This was a bit further to Melbourne but that area offered easy access to the Great Ocean Road, surfing and resort beaches. Geelong is a growing city with a good small town feel.

I highly recommend them both depending on your lifestyle goals.

You can go to www.australia.com for more info or www.letsgotoaustralia.com to get a free e-book that has great info on Melbourne and Victoria.

Answer 3

anywhere really public transport is really good in oz so its easy to get from place to place if u have money toorak is good malvern is alittle less pricey but still not cheap but the outer suburbs especially eltham and montmorency have good pricing and good public transport. i would advise you send your kids to public school but thats just me.

i hope you love melbourne it is the worlds most liveable city

love from melbourne