We have an 3bed ex govvie house there rented by an ANU lecturer and his family - his salary is over 80k per year. Guy next door is an public servant EL2 - similar sort of salary. We have done very well out of our Charny investment and would happily live there too, the parks and trees everywhere are great and its handy to everything. It used to be rough 10 years ago as there were heaps of govvie housing, crime, drug problems etc but most of these places have been sold off now (we bought one of them - very dodgy looking when we got it) and the govvie tenants moved further out. The suburb seems fine now and there are a lot of renos going on. I noticed on my last visit the other week they are building a brand new med centre near the shops. Would definitely buy there again.
(Interestingly, we used a Canberra Broker for the purchase in 2009 and he tried to talk us out of it when he heard it was Charny! But thank god we ignored him as now the place is worth 24% more.)