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What Suburb?

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My family and I want to move to Melbourne and we would like some info on what the best suburbs are?
We don't want to be right in the busy city, but we would like to be within 20 minutes of it. We would like to be within 20 minutes of the beach. We want to be really close to parks with bike trails, like the one that runs along the Yarra River.
I was thinking somewhere like Kew but I really have no idea what each of the suburbs are like. Any information would be great. Thanks.

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Hi and great decision to move to the best city in the world ( I have lived in a few)

To help with your question, we sort of need a budget per week for housing, what sort of house, how many kids, ages etc??

Try www.realestate.com.au for rental properties, and to find them, look the suburbs up on www.whereis.com.au

To live in a suburb like Kew, you will be looking at around $300-$600 per week for a 3 - 4 bedroom house. Source(s): email me with specifics and i will do my best to help
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go to
www.melbourne.com.au - for further information
or try
www.realestate.com.au - for a search on the homes in all the suburbs
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.

The inner suburbs are old houses, pretty dense and small, with expensive prices due to their closeness to the CBD. This includes Kew (close to Yarra river, but not very close to beach as well). To check the suburbs in Melbourne, I suggest to use www.whereis.com.au.

I used to live in Collingwood and Clifton Hill (very close to Kew) 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.

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.

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.
www.realestate.com.au
www.domain.com.au
www.pointcookrealestate.com.au
http://www.150.theage.com.au/view_bestof...
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