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Originally Posted by kempster1
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He's referring to an area in Hoppers known at the birdcage or birdsville, where walking the street at night and having the wrong clothes or wrong colour skin will get you beat half to death by the local homies.
I work in Lavo North as well in one of the logistics companies, and live in Laverton itself. The old RAAF area that Dave XR6 "bagged" at the start of the post.
Oh, and I cant hear the power station at all. In fact, when it was first being built, stuffed if anyone knew exactly what it was.
The surrounding suburbs are nice. If you like the beachy / older type areas, Williamstown and Altona are the way to go. Altona meadows is just as nice, although a little cramped for my liking. Point Cook / Boardwalk estates are by far the newest and best looking of the lot. Same with Wyndham Waters, etc, estates on Sayers Road . Any one of these places will get you to work within 20 mins. Geelong will see you 30 mins from work on a good run, but upto an hour on peak, specially when there is an accident.
Any one of the above suburbs will see you looking at the $250k+ mark for a home, more likely in the $300k area if you are looking at the Point Cook/Boardwalk area.
But if you are looking on a budget, as crummy as Laverton may be, its a bargain. I purcahsed a 13sq double story, fully renovated on a 550sqm block 5 years ago now for $165,000. Now its value is hovering around the $230k mark. You can get a common 15/16sq home in the same area on a 800 to 900sqm block for around the $200k mark. May require some work and some new paint, but a bargain in comparison. Its only 10ish mins to the outskirts of the cbd, with schools and transport in walking distance, and a grammar school down the road. Plus its only 5 mins from your work site. And when the development of the area is complete, values of the properties will skyrocket.