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You didnt mention how far from the CBD you would prefer to be, but what about:

Ferntree gully
Upwey
Lilydale (just over an hour to the beach)
Belgrave/Tecoma

About an hour travel to the CBD.

All have stations with excellent access to the CBD, good schools, plenty of open spaces, play areas, etc etc.

Large shopping centres close by, and you can find something quite nice for the max 500k bracket.

heres one in Upwey

http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...pwey-106484658

and this one is down the road from us to give you an example of moving just a bit further out.

http://www.realestate.com.au/propert...bulk-106505224

It is Monbulk, so you would need to have 2 cars, but you get a lot more bang for your buck up this way, and this house is 2 minutes from the primary school.

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Originally Posted by ozzieeagle (Post 8592894)

I've lived in the Northern Subs for 30 years now, Broadmeadows is nowhere near as rough as it used to be. Between St Albans and Broadmeadows are places Like Maribyrnong, the Maribyrnong river part of Avondale Heights, Essendon Strathmore, Oak Park and then Broadmeadows.... of which Oak Park is part off. Tullamarine and particuarly Niddrie are both OK suburbs as well.

I've got friends that live in Sunshine, we got out there a lot, never seen these Vietnamese gangs that your alluding too. I do agree St Albans is bad though.

The worst suburb in the North is either Dallas or Coolaroo, although the Worst Suburb in Melbourne is either Noble Park or Doveton .... they probably all interchange.

I'd give the title of the worst places to live in Victoria to places like Moe and Benalla. Benalla has close to the worst school in Victoria.

There's no more than 20,000 Somalians in the whole of Australia, so the 100,000 that you quote is hopefully a typo.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1111118108007

I'm just going on what I was told. There is over 20 000 in Perth now so considering Melbournes size of almost 5 million including greater Melbourne its reasonable I think. But a alwasy I'm happy to be proven wrong.

Also comparing the suburbs to listed to the suburbs of the OP is ludicrious and totally different to living in that Area. It's a different world

Secondly how can you possibe reccommend these suburbs to anyone.

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Originally Posted by Weebie (Post 8592994)

Sunshine has definite potential for substantial capital growth over the next 8-15 years.... by that I mean greater than most suburbs on a pro rata basis. Being only 15k's out really helps it's cause there though.

Altona is missing off of the list as well, if you can get as close to the beach as possible then thats not a bad area either.... try around Cherry Lake.

Niddrie is almost an upmarket suburb... especially for the North, and geographically smack in the middle of St Albans and Broadmeadows.

Thanks all for your comments, certainly given us plenty to look at.

The areas we have found are basically (following train line):

Newport to Werribee
Sunshine to Melton
Sunshine to Sydenham
Glenroy to Broadmeadows
Coburg to Uppfield
Reservoir to Epping
Rosanna to Greensbrough
Heatherdale to Lilydale/Belgrave
Noble Park to Dandenong
Carrum to Aspendale

Might be worth having a look at South Frankston or Mount Eliza?

Try Taylors Lakes and surrounding suburbs.

Very nice suburb, peaceful and quiet with a huge shopping complex- Watergarden Shopping Mall.:)

See link:
http://britvics.org/topic/97121/?author=18180
http://localvoices.realestate.com.au...lakes/overview
http://www.*************/forum/victor...melbourne.html
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question...3031435AAX1vwp

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Originally Posted by Weebie (Post 8592994)

Doveton is bad due to it's low socio-economic status. It's not necessarily the unsafest suburb if that makes sense.

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Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack (Post 8597704)

Doveton is bad due to it's low socio-economic status. It's not necessarily the unsafest suburb if that makes sense.

Gets a special mention on the MVictory forums as being dodgy, for some reason Badge.

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Originally Posted by knn (Post 8597698)

We lived in Sydenham for three years which is an adjoining suburb to Taylors Lakes. We liked it alot and it would seem within budget. Watergardens Shopping Centre is big,clean and modern. There is plenty of parking at Sydenham train station and being the first stop on the line you always got a seat - definitely not the case by Albion /Sunshine etc. It was only a 20-25 min drive into the city via Citylink. Plenty of open spaces and Keilor Park - which is huge is only a short drive away. No idea regarding schools though I'm afraid.