Perth. the north south divide
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Perth. the north south divide
I have been looking at this forum for a few years to get info about coming to Aus' and have now started to browse it once again to read up on the saga's of others wanting to move over here. The one thing I seem to notice is that most potential migrants look to move to suburbs north of the river, and by this I mean those suburbs around the Joondalup area down to say Kingsley. These are the newer areas that have been developed over the 10/15 years or so. No one ever seems to look to the south where there is currently billions of dollars being spent on infrastructure for the expansion of Perth. For those who are still in the UK or haven,t visited Perth for a while there is a train line being built from the city to Mandurah, extensions to the Roe And Tonkin Highways, a bypass to Bunbury due to start in 2007, and a de-salination plant to be built at Kwinana. Also, for someone who has only seen Perth as a holiday maker or on a brief 'reccie' the majority of industry is south, areas such as Welshpool, Kewdale, Canning Vale, Bibra Lake, Kwinana, I can just keep going on. The Mitchell Freeway coming south every morning is a nightmare, and for those looking for a lifestyle change won,t find one. The northern beaches are lovely I admit but so are those in the south, and anyway the beach euphoria soons wears off when you live here, and visits will become more infrequent for the 4/5 months that you can go. I think people should take a long at the whole city before making a choice on where to settle and not be so influenced by the amount of expats in the north.
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Re: Perth. the north south divide
Originally Posted by delia
I have been looking at this forum for a few years to get info about coming to Aus' and have now started to browse it once again to read up on the saga's of others wanting to move over here. The one thing I seem to notice is that most potential migrants look to move to suburbs north of the river, and by this I mean those suburbs around the Joondalup area down to say Kingsley. These are the newer areas that have been developed over the 10/15 years or so. No one ever seems to look to the south where there is currently billions of dollars being spent on infrastructure for the expansion of Perth. For those who are still in the UK or haven,t visited Perth for a while there is a train line being built from the city to Mandurah, extensions to the Roe And Tonkin Highways, a bypass to Bunbury due to start in 2007, and a de-salination plant to be built at Kwinana. Also, for someone who has only seen Perth as a holiday maker or on a brief 'reccie' the majority of industry is south, areas such as Welshpool, Kewdale, Canning Vale, Bibra Lake, Kwinana, I can just keep going on. The Mitchell Freeway coming south every morning is a nightmare, and for those looking for a lifestyle change won,t find one. The northern beaches are lovely I admit but so are those in the south, and anyway the beach euphoria soons wears off when you live here, and visits will become more infrequent for the 4/5 months that you can go. I think people should take a long at the whole city before making a choice on where to settle and not be so influenced by the amount of expats in the north.
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Re: Perth. the north south divide
Originally Posted by Steve&Clare
we are moving to Rockingham, close to the end of the new train line and really reasonable house prices, it's also right on the shore so you get the best of both worlds.
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Re: Perth. the north south divide
Please can you keep quiet about south of perth as we're hoping to head that way and dont want house prices to end up out of our reach!!
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Originally Posted by bridiej
Please can you keep quiet about south of perth as we're hoping to head that way and dont want house prices to end up out of our reach!!
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Hope we get there before that too......
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Its a hard one north? south? south? north?
I will be looking at the north as i like the area but know that the south is great too !
Still will be nice to have to choose which lovely area will do for me
I will be looking at the north as i like the area but know that the south is great too !
Still will be nice to have to choose which lovely area will do for me
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I always get these images of Poms walking around in Man U tops and labels for some reason, whenever I hear about Joondalup and the north.
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Re: Perth. the north south divide
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I always get these images of Poms walking around in Man U tops and labels for some reason, whenever I hear about Joondalup and the north.
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I always get these images of Poms walking around in Man U tops and labels for some reason, whenever I hear about Joondalup and the north.
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I heard that Rockingham was with place populated with most Brits.
It would be interesting to do a poll on this cos there are heaps of people on here or used to be on here that were from the south.
We went to Mandurah for the weekend recently and it was lovely. i would like to live there when I am an oldie.
It would be interesting to do a poll on this cos there are heaps of people on here or used to be on here that were from the south.
We went to Mandurah for the weekend recently and it was lovely. i would like to live there when I am an oldie.
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I was just going to say, Mandurah and Rockingham are full of 'poms' too.
But the rest of the south has less 'poms' than the north probably, not sure.
There was an article about it in the West a while ago, with %'s of british in the different suburbs, some were around 30%, and I'm quite sure Rockingham was one of them....
But the rest of the south has less 'poms' than the north probably, not sure.
There was an article about it in the West a while ago, with %'s of british in the different suburbs, some were around 30%, and I'm quite sure Rockingham was one of them....
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Re: Perth. the north south divide
Something else new migrants might want to consider are the hills to the south east of Perth, from Kalamunda through to Jarrahdale, and especially Rolystone in the middle of these. I went looking at blocks at Churchmans Brook and the Araluen Resort where you can currently buy a 2000/3000m2 block with city or valley views build a house surrounded by other magnificent homes and not have to worry about listening to your neighbour's tv, for about 450,000 dollars. It sounds a lot, but a decent deposit from the house sale of a 30 something couple from the uk who have been on the property ladder for a few years and it is very achievable. If you saw the areas and the homes, and did the maths, you will then have the lifestyle change I'm sure many people are looking for. I live in the hills myself in a town called Byford and its a lovely place to live, people know me at the shops, the neighbours come and say hello, kids having fun in streets. It's worth a look.
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Re: Perth. the north south divide
Originally Posted by delia
Something else new migrants might want to consider are the hills to the south east of Perth, from Kalamunda through to Jarrahdale, and especially Rolystone in the middle of these. I went looking at blocks at Churchmans Brook and the Araluen Resort where you can currently buy a 2000/3000m2 block with city or valley views build a house surrounded by other magnificent homes and not have to worry about listening to your neighbour's tv, for about 450,000 dollars. It sounds a lot, but a decent deposit from the house sale of a 30 something couple from the uk who have been on the property ladder for a few years and it is very achievable. If you saw the areas and the homes, and did the maths, you will then have the lifestyle change I'm sure many people are looking for. I live in the hills myself in a town called Byford and its a lovely place to live, people know me at the shops, the neighbours come and say hello, kids having fun in streets. It's worth a look.
But one of most serene places I know is Langford Park - out of school holidays, that is! Alcoa surely did a mgnificent job of re-afforestation, after they'd strip-mined it in the 60's, 70's.
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