Highgate if you like hanging out with drunks and hookers as part of that bohemian greens agenda.
Perth is a good bet but a very small suburb.
Mt Lawley is chockas with champagne socialists - you see them out every day walking their babies in their mountain buggy prams and some kind of cloth nappy bag in tow proclaiming to be "green" on their way to the upmarkets to buy something made here with chinese produts.
Leederville is a nice spot. Pity about the constant detective busts and house raids, but it's a nice spot. you can get any number of overpriced burned coffees, stodgy fish and chips or something called "fusion" food, which tastes an awful lot like my nanna's attempt to cook black bean beef in her new, unseasoned wok. There's a pub, but that's shut during the day and opens on Wed-Sun night as a club, there's a chemist and a photo place, the TAFE has turned into a sport institute and there's a number of schools in the area.
Just up the road is Mount Hawthorn. I like Mt Hawthorn. It has an ACTUAL pub - no really! apparently it's "melbourne comes to perth", but they dont serve a great deal of alcohol and make judicious use of a DJ. oh, and a bakery - one that uses monks as slave labour an hours drive north of Perth is a sh*thole called "New Norcia" - it's an awesome place to get married (and i bloody mean it!) but i don't know about a town that uses monk labour to run everything - how is that productive? anyway, Mt Hawthorn has nurseries and shoe shops and a small shopping centre called "the mezz" whereby you get to pay a 20% premium on your dried apricots just because you're in Mount Hawthorn! awesome! if you dont want to pay a premium, you could always buy your chicken feed - sorry, fruit and veg - at the corner Four Square...sorry, Supa Valu.....oops, i meant IGA and while the teenager bags your groceries you can go next door and get a manicure while-u-wait.
Fremantle would suit most people quite well, especially considering you can actually classify yourself as bohemian AND a champagne socialist - Freo is a diverse populace of people who fit into no category at all, who don't mind sitting on dirty pavement and grotty chairs drinking burnt coffee and digesting the thick stench of the cattle ships with their chicken caesar watching bogans from Hammie Hill drop bog laps and the odd number 11 up the main strip in their hektik XF wit de sterios pumpin mut! and while you're bespectacled by the stupidity of painting a mid 80s family saloon in hyundai purple, some snot will nick your bag from around your ankle as you sit and watch the world go by. but that's okay - they probably needed the cash for their meth program.
If that's a bit too extreme, you could go live out the middle of bumf**k nowhere. Yep, South Yunderup is about as sterile as it gets and nice and "safe" for families, as long as you're happy being safe from anything - culture included. There's the odd school and 7 day IGA...oh and the estuary...which still stinks even after the channel.
Margaret River is the ideal spot for tourists and raising a family. Your child could become a pot smoking communist hippy who enjoys a surf and would one day like to own a skate shop in town, like his mate, and his mate, and his mate, and his mate, and....well, they ARE all individuals as part of mother gaia, you know.
so that's Perth. Clearly it's got nothing to do with what you make of it, it's just some backwater joke for people flying over from Victoria.
funny.....the eastern staters never seem to leave once they're here, though. maybe i should invest in that future beach front Wiluna landbank.