Where should we live in Melbourne??

[~Trish~]

Yep, I'm in the eastern 'burbs and love it . It's lovely and leafy and there is heaps of public transport available.

[Nai]

Cheaper with beach and public transport - look Altona area

[anney]

Yes, we are directly east. The lilydale / belgrave line basically runs directly east from the city. We are nowhere near the beach but now with the Eastlink ie. the road that goes from Nunawading to Frankston, we can get to the beach in 35 minutes so it is fine for a day out but not if you want to walk on the beach every day
Nai may be on to something with the beach and Altona.
Friends of mine wanted to live near the beach and moved to Mornington, which is just past Frankston, and loved the lifestyle but it was a 1 hour and 20 minute commute each way at least for her DH so they moved back to melbourne as he was getting so tired.

[feeb]

Western suburbs!!!

Near beach is:

williamstown (nice but expy)
newport
Altona
Werribee
Point cook

[LimeSlice]

Hampton, Cheltenham, Mentone, Parkdale, Highett

[Tinks]

I've heard Altona is a great place to buy atm.

I live in the eastern suburbs now but am originlly from the Western Suburbs. I much prefer Eastern even though it takes longer to get the city by train.

[Kailani]

If you want beach you could also look at south-east suburbs towards Frankston: Mentone, Parkdale, Mordialloc, Aspendale, Edithvale, Chelsea

eta, good public transport here too

oh and chelsea is about 45min train ride to city. that's the furthest out of the list.

[Sammiejane]

We are sort of South Eastern...

Near to Chadstone, but bot too close that its expensive. 15 min drive.
Similar to the beach on a good run, great doggy (if you have one) beach that is open all year round in Brighton that is also not to far away, about another 5mins
Loads and loads and loads of parks in our area.
We have one at our back fence which is soon to be wetlands, another one 5 minutes away (walking) and another 3 large park/grasslands within walking distance (15-20 mins)

Depends how much you want to spend. Average house price is 350-400K now.
Hasnt aways had the best name our suburb, but i have never had an issue and i think that the same with many suburbs, there can be trouble, most of it has gone now with the increasing house prices (was 230K 7 years ago). Public transport (bus) walking distance less than 5 mins in 2 directions and train station 20 min walk (probably less than that) or a 5 min drive (at 5.30am the heater doesnt even start to pump hot air!!!) Cranbourne/Pakenham/Dandenong lines run through our station so trains run frequently. takes 35 mins to the city stopping all stations

Same as other people, i am biased as to where to live cos i love where we are.