Mandurah - no longer a retirement village
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Mandurah - no longer a retirement village
From this week's Mandurah Mail (sorry can't find online link):
"Mandurah is a youthful city, according to the latest figures.
Young people under the age of 25 make up more than 30 per cent of Mandurah's population, which is surprising given the popular perception of the city as a retirement destination. Mayor Paddi Creevey said the figures were very exciting for the future of the city. She said it was a common theme in declining communities for their youth to move away, but Mandurah had embraced its young people and taken steps to accommodate them in the community. Over the past five years the council had made it a priority to engage young people and work with them as well as those that provide services to then, from schools and community groups to employers.
'This is a community that celebrates children', Mayor Creevey said."
"Mandurah is a youthful city, according to the latest figures.
Young people under the age of 25 make up more than 30 per cent of Mandurah's population, which is surprising given the popular perception of the city as a retirement destination. Mayor Paddi Creevey said the figures were very exciting for the future of the city. She said it was a common theme in declining communities for their youth to move away, but Mandurah had embraced its young people and taken steps to accommodate them in the community. Over the past five years the council had made it a priority to engage young people and work with them as well as those that provide services to then, from schools and community groups to employers.
'This is a community that celebrates children', Mayor Creevey said."
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Re: Mandurah - no longer a retirement village
I have always thought - having been there 5 years that it has a big family population. The issue it has though is jobs for these kids when they leave school - there just arent many decent ones about. I believe the unemployment rate is high for young people as well.
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Re: Mandurah - no longer a retirement village
In Melbourne SE, in the burbs, we are starting to see issues there too as the kids who were born in the early 2000s before the building boom grow up.
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Re: Mandurah - no longer a retirement village
Not mentioning the rather excessive social problems associated the growth in younger population. Sadly the more younger the more crime.
Far better when a retirement village perhaps?
Far better when a retirement village perhaps?
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I agree. We looked at a house yesterday (horrible, two bedrooms, 1950s interior, asbestos cladding, 30 mins from the city on a 30 degree slope, 450k) and I was immediately put off by a load of teenagers in the house next door playing basketball. Right now we live in a rental in a street of houses worth between 750k and 1.5 million, so naturally all the residents are boomers, and with the exception of the ubiquitous Australian barking dog, it is mainly quiet and peaceful.
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Never attracted me Mandurah very much for each to their own. Whatever happened to that low cost suburb they had planned to build in the 90s out that way? I don't recall the name but a recipe for disaster if any.
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Not a fan
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Re: Mandurah - no longer a retirement village
It's fun in summer but this timed year it's pretty empty!
Having said that, I'd do feel a great deal of Perth quite similar. Many of the newer suburbs absolutely leave me cold, they lack soul.
Only the older burbs in town do it for me.
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It is though a city in its own right - a small one, but still a city and has the variations in suburbs that every city including Perth has - some are good, some are bad, some are mediocre.
We are in Dawesville on The Cut golf course. The thing that attracted us was that it was good value for what we wanted. Good, 2/3 storey house brand new when we moved in, opposite a decent beach - I can hear the waves while laid in bed and a quiet area. With a rent of $325 a week - wouldnt get anything like what we have for that in Perth - were happy. I only commute once every 8 weeks and Emirates takes care of that.
Very few families where we are - mainly couples in their late 40's / early 50's. A few familes about, but because we are a treck to a school it probably puts them off.
We are in Dawesville on The Cut golf course. The thing that attracted us was that it was good value for what we wanted. Good, 2/3 storey house brand new when we moved in, opposite a decent beach - I can hear the waves while laid in bed and a quiet area. With a rent of $325 a week - wouldnt get anything like what we have for that in Perth - were happy. I only commute once every 8 weeks and Emirates takes care of that.
Very few families where we are - mainly couples in their late 40's / early 50's. A few familes about, but because we are a treck to a school it probably puts them off.
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Re: Mandurah - no longer a retirement village
It is though a city in its own right - a small one, but still a city and has the variations in suburbs that every city including Perth has - some are good, some are bad, some are mediocre.
We are in Dawesville on The Cut golf course. The thing that attracted us was that it was good value for what we wanted. Good, 2/3 storey house brand new when we moved in, opposite a decent beach - I can hear the waves while laid in bed and a quiet area. With a rent of $325 a week - wouldnt get anything like what we have for that in Perth - were happy. I only commute once every 8 weeks and Emirates takes care of that.
Very few families where we are - mainly couples in their late 40's / early 50's. A few familes about, but because we are a treck to a school it probably puts them off.
We are in Dawesville on The Cut golf course. The thing that attracted us was that it was good value for what we wanted. Good, 2/3 storey house brand new when we moved in, opposite a decent beach - I can hear the waves while laid in bed and a quiet area. With a rent of $325 a week - wouldnt get anything like what we have for that in Perth - were happy. I only commute once every 8 weeks and Emirates takes care of that.
Very few families where we are - mainly couples in their late 40's / early 50's. A few familes about, but because we are a treck to a school it probably puts them off.
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Re: Mandurah - no longer a retirement village
It is though a city in its own right - a small one, but still a city and has the variations in suburbs that every city including Perth has - some are good, some are bad, some are mediocre.
We are in Dawesville on The Cut golf course. The thing that attracted us was that it was good value for what we wanted. Good, 2/3 storey house brand new when we moved in, opposite a decent beach - I can hear the waves while laid in bed and a quiet area. With a rent of $325 a week - wouldnt get anything like what we have for that in Perth - were happy. I only commute once every 8 weeks and Emirates takes care of that.
Very few families where we are - mainly couples in their late 40's / early 50's. A few familes about, but because we are a treck to a school it probably puts them off.
We are in Dawesville on The Cut golf course. The thing that attracted us was that it was good value for what we wanted. Good, 2/3 storey house brand new when we moved in, opposite a decent beach - I can hear the waves while laid in bed and a quiet area. With a rent of $325 a week - wouldnt get anything like what we have for that in Perth - were happy. I only commute once every 8 weeks and Emirates takes care of that.
Very few families where we are - mainly couples in their late 40's / early 50's. A few familes about, but because we are a treck to a school it probably puts them off.
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It is a bit limited for the restaurant / bar things. The golf clubs ok. But, given the scene is pretty limited in Mandurah anyway, we didnt mind that. And to be honest, when i get back from 5 weeks away, i am happy to just spend time chilling out.
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Hi there, I am from scotland and me and my wife and 2 young kids are in the final process of immigration to WA..I am a wall and floor tiler with 25 years experience, we are looking to settle in or around mandurah and was wonderng if you could help out by telling me good suburbs for families, with schools and stuff and also how is the work around that way for someone in my trade? any info would be greatly appreciated...thanks, neil