I would say the inner west and williamstown is much more appealing than Point Cook

Looks more like a Potemkin village. Eerie. Pretty, but eerie…

You must be joking

Its melbourne

I lived in Camberwell for 2 years but in other similar suburbs my comments are the same. Let me say this as a summary of inner city, or near inner city. If I walked out to the balcony of my apartment with moistened paper towel pieces and rubbed my external windows with them, the paper towel was .. black. So air pollution and health dangers are a massive issue in these suburbs. Second, the traffic noise is horrendous 24/7 so you have got massive noise pollution. Add to that, Come say from Thursday night to Sunday nights in particular, the smart arse well to do roar down the roads in their lambos, mercs, Ferraris in their v12s and v 8 to show off their latest purchase and these exhausts totally invade every room in the house. The EPA told me that if the police pull them up ( never ever seen that) they sticker the car and the owner is required to fit the car with approved exhaust. However, he told me that soon after many owners put the massively noisy exhausts back on. THERE IS ALSO THE POOR HEALTH FROM THIS, THE HEADACHES, ETC ETC ETC and the unhappiness from living in a hell hole. I moved out to Werribee into a new estate into a brand new Townhouse,with massive open parklands , massive buffer zones, FRESH AIR, LOW LOW NOISE LEVEL, VERY VERY OCCASIONAL LOUD MOTOR BIKES, BUT NO SOOT ON THAT PAPER TOWEL. Blue wrens have recently arrived, cormorants, ducks , and many more as the trees pass the 2 metre heights, and the shrubs protect the birds. One month ago a new shopping centre opened just a 2 minute drive or 9 minute walk. What I am ashamed and what infuriates me are things like over filled garage bins in houses ( we are frightened to tell these people as you don’t want a beer bottle thrown at your home) , dog poo not picked, dogs not on leads littering everywhere… we must do a lot to dissuade this, employ LG enforcement with powers to heavily find offenders after an education program. I DONT HAVE AN OLD HOUSE, WITH LOTS OF PROBLEMS. You scoot over all this. A lot of these homes are massively over vegetated. In Camberwell, it’s a gold mine for plumbers trying to deal with houses that have major issues with roots of trees. The costs are horrendous, and many are just beyond fixing. So no, many of these old homes are in poor states.

Having lived in the northern edge of melbourne i can say the outer city urban planning is good actually. The big department stores have to exist somewhere and are generally out of the way. There are more small shops scattered through residential areas than you might think. The only issue is the modern architecture, which is just an inescapable fact of the times we live in. I think its still better than the awful stuff they put up in the 70s and 80s.

I agree with you on the modern design of houses, so sick of seeing the same grey colour bricks and walls on these houses but it's the only colour they seem to build with now. It's the last colour i would choose for a house, they just look like depressing jail boxes

This represents unscientific prejudice, because by your definition and out of suburb such as Lilydale, Warrandyte, Park Orchards etc must be pretty crap… well mate, they definitely are not!

Berwick is quiet diverse in that aspect. The north main street retained the old style. However come south near minta and alira estate you'll get the same feel as western suburbs. Come a little more south to lets say near the berwick side of "berwick springs" you'll see plently of green again. I found that to be a balance of old school peace and new school suburbia.

Bro is comparing Eastern Suburbs with hoppers and PC, go figure.

It's not hard to plant trees.

Whilst it is true that Point Cook Road has barely been upgraded since it was built for access to the RAAF base and farmland, and it does have traffic problems at peak times, it is unfair to criticise the whole of Point Cook on that basis. Point Cook is a big suburb and there are two other major north-south roads giving access to the Princes Freeway and to suburbs north of the freeway, Palmers Road and Boardwalk Boulevard. Both of those roads are four-lane divided roads and give good freeway access to the majority of Point Cook residents at most times.

We moved to Sanctuary Lakes from altona. Point Cook road is far less of a problem than millers road. Plus, you can easily and quickly get to the M1 from Dunnings road so cut Point Cook road out completely. Sanctuary lakes is such a fabulous area. The whole area is patrolled by security. Houses have built in monitored alarms and panic switches that bring the security guys to houses in a couple of minutes. There are several additional gated areas to boot. They are doing major work to the Sneyes road intersection, increasing lanes and puttingin lights.

But it's good to know the type of incidents as well. For instance, what if X suburb in the north has 10.000 incidents and Y suburb in the west has 8.000, but of those numbers, only 40% of the incidents in the northern suburbs are serious (let's say break ins, assault, car theft, etc) while the western suburb, 80% of those incidents are serious? So, those numbers can be misleading if we can't have a break down of the data. But good video, anyway. Just find a better AI voice for the next videos.

i lived in the west Suburbs for over 20 years i went to school in the west i grew up in the west since i was 11 years old to the age of 31 it was one of the best places i lived all my life if i would go back if i would its not even as bad as so many people make it to be in summer i use to live my front door open nothing ever use to happen

This is the issue that King Charles tackled in the UK when he made a town called poundbery. A protest against modern urban planning l.

I mean, not everywhere needs to be bustling 24/7. Some of us just wanna escape the rat race and jump on an MMORPG

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Yes, it is a wonderful street to live in... except in Autumn when we have all the leaves to clean up! :-) I wish I had tidied my garden a little more before you filmed this! Hahaha.

The western suburbs is known for prisons, heavy industry, the airport, being flat and wind prone. Not sure of this is relevant but their are many heavy pollutants in the soils their over the years, cancer cluster suburbs. If kids are exposed could effect their inteligence and crime rates in future years in these areas.

This voice over was definitely AI generated! Bit hypocritical when the video theme is on authenticity and character

Places like Brunswick and Fitzroy Sure do you have millions of dollars to spend on a tiny little apartment only Plus hundreds of dollars for a tiny little coffee This dude is a complete moron

I used to live in a smaller than behind Chadstone and I used to walk through a park to get to Chadstone shopping Centre only to find I had to come home and get the car to go and pick up good s

Isn't this everywhere in Australia in general?

Thanks for the video, but it was 10 months ago, can we access more recent statistics?

The things you mention are irrelevant or are positives. 1. Getting no return on your investment doesn't make it a bad place to live. You don't want to live where you have low body corp fees, nothing will be maintained properly. You don't want people hanging laundry on the balcony, it looks awful. Being windy near the waterside? maybe other waterside locations are less windy but really, it's not that bad. It is a lot quieter than Melbourne. Not everybody wants children. Less children is a positive. I didn't read any negative comments here from people who live in Docklands. Docklands is alright.

Suburbs grow along with the people in it. They all began with the one house you naive *****.

It does not happen only in the west side of Melbourne

seriously ?, old rundown tiny shops and houses, congested narrow road, hectic tram lines and electric poles everywhere. Do your research properly, those suburbs that you are discrediting have long kilometers bike trails to the city, with great scenaries from bushes, creeks, beaches, lakes, without need to cross the roads. You can't see them, because you are in the wrong spot.

a lot of shops and restaurants closed, Gold Leaf, Costco, and car park really expensive.

I couldn't agree more about the boring architecture. I find Wyndham Vale thoroughly depressing.

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I’ve lived here around 25 years and while I love the inner north and some other spots I’ll never be a Melbournian. People who grew up here are tone deaf to the fact the 90%+ of this city is a car centric, flat, grey, sprawling suburban wasteland. The parochialism is something I’ll never understand.

Even Brunswick fiztroy and st kilda are boring. They look better but they are boring.

Wherever u go and do in melbourne...u find boredom. Australians have such a small mind.

I could sit there all day

I lived in docklands for 1.5 years. I loved it !

But for Werribee!!

Would you take your kids out at night , in any suburb in Melbourne . No , so it's not safe anywhere .

Thanks for making these videos, it's very helpful for people to understand the suburbs better!

state the obvious, not everywhere has trees and development takes time , Rome wasn't built in a day. I remember ads on TV selling blocks in Melton.

Why would you produce something like this?

Sidewalk???

a very stupid video , you compare old suburbs from hundreds of years ago to a commercial shopping home maker precinct.

I’ve been to Werribee river it’s beautiful

Living in a modern day prison with no walls

Thank you fir this informative video

Not sure why the ABS reports punjabis separate from Indians. Punjabis are a subset of Indian nationals. I'm confused here..

This has always been the case. I remember when people started moving to areas like Nunawading, Wantirna, Croydon, Ringwood, Donvale, Springvale, Noble Park, Carrum Downs, etc in the 70s, people used to say "how can you move to those areas so far away! Same when people started moving to Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, St Albans, Taylors Lakes, Epping, Thomastown and Lalor. Look at those suburbs now! I remember when a friend bought a house in Hampton Park in the 80s, we joked that they gave him a dog and a shotgun with the house. Now it's nowhere near the outer suburban edge.

Build it quick, we have 7 children to feed and house! Is not how we like it. We are brining millions of people from Asia who do not understand Australian expectations or desire. We deserve and expect high standards, privacy and quiet.