Um....I think your statistics speak for themselves...Western region has 28% more crime than Eastern, North-West has 53% more...growth rate is irrelevant with those statistics.
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Um....I think your statistics speak for themselves...Western region has 28% more crime than Eastern, North-West has 53% more...growth rate is irrelevant with those statistics.
I don't quite understand your logic here Deltaberry.
Box Hill is currently @ $600k - by the time the Western Suburbs reach $600k Box Hill will be $1.2M. How do you compare the 2 areas when one is double the price?
Also what about the people who work in the Western Suburbs, or have grown up there and enjoy that side of town? They won't want to live in Box Hill. There will always be buyers in the West which will help drive up prices.
BTW I live in the Eastern Suburbs and have IP's in both the SE and Western suburbs of Melbourne. I think your comments are extremely simplistic and elitist to be honest.
As they say you don't necessarily buy IP's where you would like to live.
Haven't I been saying Altona will go up in the thread?
Why are my comments elitist?
I'm saying that Box Hill has peaked out and soon western suburbs will reach the same price once people realise there's no difference between Box Hill and Altona
Apologies then as I have misread your post.
Still am very doubtful that Box Hill has peaked in price considering what prices Surrey Hills, Camberwell, Mont Albert, etc. now command.
Prices in the next suburbs out will continue to push up via purchasers who cannot afford to buy into these areas.
And although I think that the Western Suburbs will do OK (Altona, etc.) I don't think that they will catch suburbs such as Box Hill. Too much of a stigma attached.
Not sure what you are trying to prove with those links. We can equally find recent crime news in the eastern side too.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/mo...otel-in-st-kilda/story-fn7x8me2-1226202038706
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-hunt-after-dead-body-find-20111205-1odv8.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/mo...mpted-abductions/story-fn7x8me2-1226202684525
http://www.theage.com.au/execute_search.html?text=melbourne+east+stab&ss=theage.com.au
A lot of the negativity has to do with the stigma attached to the west by the people who grew up and live on the eastern side, despite rarely visiting the west and not having first hand experience. I notice people who move here from interstate or overseas are more open to the western and northern suburbs and can appreciate the pros and cons better rather than default to the brainwashed 'the west is no good avoid at all cost' mindset.
i think there are both bad and good suburbs in the west and the east.
but statistically, there are more bad "high crime" suburbs in the west than in the east. there is growth no doubt but there are also certain risk factors as well.
but statistically, there are more bad "high crime" suburbs in the west than in the east. there is growth no doubt but there are also certain risk factors as well.
As i said, I'm new to Melbourne but in other cities i have lived in i have seen "bad stigma" areas change for the better over time, and seen there values climb relative to "better areas". Usually due to there proxcimity to the CBD.
There are a lot of people you are going to need to convince on this one...
You do realise he's being sarcastic...
[No brainer. Who would choose to pay $600k for Box Hill when you can live in Sunshine or Altona for the same price?[/QUOTE]
You are kidding right??? Box Hill is lush, with great character-style housing, big old street trees, great gardens etc and has been middle class forever... I'd live there in a heartbeat if I ever come back to Melbourne.
Sunshine and Altona may have improved a bit in the 23 years since I lived in Melbourne but not enough to ever overtake Box Hill in the desirability stakes.....I stand to be corrected though...
You are kidding right??? Box Hill is lush, with great character-style housing, big old street trees, great gardens etc and has been middle class forever... I'd live there in a heartbeat if I ever come back to Melbourne.
Sunshine and Altona may have improved a bit in the 23 years since I lived in Melbourne but not enough to ever overtake Box Hill in the desirability stakes.....I stand to be corrected though...
He sounded serious from his posting, the joke must have flown over my head
Doesn't matter. You and Savanna proved DB's and my point anyway.
And the food
Longer term, next 30 years they will both be great investments.
I don't buy the fear/crime arguments. It's a very eliteist attitude even if the stats show higher crime. Very Brightonian (I qualify to comment with family and friends living in the area). I'm still trying to convince some of them the stolen generation occurred.
But we all sponsor and donate to overseas charities because our own indigenous communities are doing fine.
The food is definitely 100 times better in Box Hill.
Longer term, next 30 years they will both be great investments.
I don't buy the fear/crime arguments. It's a very eliteist attitude even if the stats show higher crime. Very Brightonian (I qualify to comment with family and friends living in the area). I'm still trying to convince some of them the stolen generation occurred.
But we all sponsor and donate to overseas charities because our own indigenous communities are doing fine.
The food is definitely 100 times better in Box Hill.
Id say both suburbs would be a vast improvement on Canberra. Doesnt Canberra have XXX shops on every corner with legalised weed and everyone works for the government or is that just an old bias?
edited to correct the slur on the real workers out there
Where can you get a house in Box Hill for 600k. You are looking at around 700k as a starting point (and even this might be lowish).
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