Suburb Liveability in Adelaide

[Dissident]

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 26,00.html

I thought bundling Modbury in with St Peters, Grange, McLaren Vale and Prospect was high praise for it. I've lived in the area all my life and love it here.

Here is the article on Modbury:

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 27,00.html

I'm looking forward to seeing what the next 5 are. Any thoughts?

[The Yetti]

Suburbs
McLaren Vale where they grow the grapes that get turned into Grange and bought by the residents of St Peters and Prospect.
Modbury just settle for the Coopers.

[Dirko]

My thoughts are most people would rate their own suburb other wise why live there ?

Personally I love where I live, and I wouldn't live anywhere else, but people's opinions are different.

[GWW]

My thoughts are most people would rate their own suburb other wise why live there ?

You've got a point, but affordability comes into things quite a bit. I'm sure a lot of people in low socio economic areas would prefer to be living in richer areas of the city.

[Dissident]

Familiarity and locality is important too.

Where your friends are, where you work, play sport etc.. can come into the area you choose to live.

[Dissident]

Also, choosing individual suburbs is a bit vague I think. It's TOO constrained.

Some people don't even know what suburb they are driving through, let alone where it starts and finishes.

Modbury is an interesting one, in that it's a weird shape and not really defined by borders.

The attraction to Modbury, for me, is more so the surrounding suburbs.

Golden Grove, Greenwith and Wynn Vale.
Modbury North/Heights
Fairview/Redwood/Banksia Park

The area honestly has some real beauty to it - being set in the foot hills with so many trees.

[dedja]

My thoughts are most people would rate their own suburb other wise why live there ?

Personally I love where I live, and I wouldn't live anywhere else, but people's opinions are different.

hang on , apparently in another topic you want to move to Melbourne (during the week anyway to hang out with Sticks?)

[Footy Smart]

Also, choosing individual suburbs is a bit vague I think. It's TOO constrained.

Some people don't even know what suburb they are driving through, let alone where it starts and finishes.

Modbury is an interesting one, in that it's a weird shape and not really defined by borders.

The attraction to Modbury, for me, is more so the surrounding suburbs.

Golden Grove, Greenwith and Wynn Vale.
Modbury North/Heights
Fairview/Redwood/Banksia Park

The area honestly has some real beauty to it - being set in the foot hills with so many trees.

Agreed i have lived in Redwood Park my whole life until purchasing my first house in Banksia Park.... I wake up every morning to the the birds chirping and the sun shinning through the trees. Its close to rhe O bahn to get to work i play cricket at TTG and footy at Modbury so im set.

[mick]

I used to live in Prospect, it was a nice area generally and very convenient to the city etc, but on the downside we were regularly burgled the worst was three times in a year, even with deadlocks and alarms. After 7 years we moved to Walkerville, where the biggest plus is the reduced crime rate. I can walk to work and to Prospect Oval, there is almost no need to own car.

[Sojourner]

The North Eastern Suburbs are just going through a normal upward swing in the property cycle which happens to various areas across Adelaide - Hindmarsh and Burton were two suburbs that you could hardly give the houses away and yet now they are high value real estate. Modbury / St Agnes / Ridgehaven all are dotted around the end of the soon to be extended oBahn and are a short trip into the city as well as having significant business investment packing into North East Road. If people are looking for a first home, its my opinion that Fairview & Banksia Park would be a good way to go if you can stretch the coin that far as those areas are also likely to growth spurt with the others. Considering the newer investment of homes are going in at Smithfield and Buckland Park, its a good opportunity to get into the older suburbs if you are prepared to do some renovations yourself on a home on a traditional 1/4 acre block!

[Dirko]

hang on , apparently in another topic you want to move to Melbourne (during the week anyway to hang out with Sticks?)

shhhh

[Psyber]

The North Eastern Suburbs are just going through a normal upward swing in the property cycle which happens to various areas across Adelaide - Hindmarsh and Burton were two suburbs that you could hardly give the houses away and yet now they are high value real estate. Modbury / St Agnes / Ridgehaven all are dotted around the end of the soon to be extended oBahn and are a short trip into the city as well as having significant business investment packing into North East Road. If people are looking for a first home, its my opinion that Fairview & Banksia Park would be a good way to go if you can stretch the coin that far as those areas are also likely to growth spurt with the others. Considering the newer investment of homes are going in at Smithfield and Buckland Park, its a good opportunity to get into the older suburbs if you are prepared to do some renovations yourself on a home on a traditional 1/4 acre block!

To think that my sister, who was in real estate, chided me for building the first house I had built on a block "way out at Klemzig" in 1972.

[Strawb]

I miss living in Adelaide because it is so easy to get around in the car. Living in Melbourne is different, you can still get around but most things here are near by so you don't really have to travel. I miss Adelaide mainly for SANFL football and the chance to catch up with people on this site for a bit of banter and stuff.

[JK]

I miss living in Adelaide because it is so easy to get around in the car. Living in Melbourne is different, you can still get around but most things here are near by so you don't really have to travel. I miss Adelaide mainly for SANFL football and the chance to catch up with people on this site for a bit of banter and stuff.

The changes they made to the road system with the freeways and e-tag routes has improved it a fair bit from 10+ years ago I've always thought

[Strawb]

I miss living in Adelaide because it is so easy to get around in the car. Living in Melbourne is different, you can still get around but most things here are near by so you don't really have to travel. I miss Adelaide mainly for SANFL football and the chance to catch up with people on this site for a bit of banter and stuff.

The changes they made to the road system with the freeways and e-tag routes has improved it a fair bit from 10+ years ago I've always thought

Cp i travel by train most of the time as all i seem to do is work home and a lil bit of shopping. I very rarely go to the other side of Melbourne. I prefer to go to Geelong than Melbourne.

[BenchedEagle]

Live in Gulfview Heights, at the bottom of the hill. Love it. have a bike/walking trail from nearly my doorstep that goes right up to Golden Grove Village

[Psyber]

I've moved around a bit: R = rental.

Childhood - Bowden[R] and West Croydon
1st marriage - Firle [R], Vale Park, Klemzig.
Alone during and after divorce- Enfield [R], back to Klemzig.
2nd marriage - Prospect, farm outside Hahndorf, West Lakes.
Melbourne - Malvern [R], Mt Dandenong, Olinda.
Temporary stay back in Adelaide for family reasons at Wayville [R], between the Mt Dandenong and Olinda houses
Now - Aldgate.

Least successful locations [for health reasons] - Prospect and West Lakes
Best and most enjoyable Hahndorf and Olinda
I'm still deciding about Aldgate...

[Dirko]

Read in the paper is criteria in weeding out suburbs. The best bit was the top ten. After he got to the ten suburbs who ever had the lowest car theft record, that's how they were ranked !!

Good way to decide.....

[Ronnie]

A bit of a pointless and subjective exercise, especially seeing the best suburbs are excluded anyway because they are not affordable.
Walkerville for example is a pretty special area and has a great feel to it for a few reasons but no go.
Also, not particularly clear why 'diversity' of ethnic background contributes to desirability of an area. It can of course but it can also work against an area. There is no absolute here but that was a criteria apparently.

[Wedgie]

If I could move Happy Valley to around Henley way and could press a magic button to eliminate the hills temporarily when going for a bike ride I'd be in my perfect suburb.
Oh and swap the McDonalds with a Hungry Jacks and perhaps add a fully fitted out JBs and a good pub nearby too.
Bugger it, I should just move!

Mind you if I didn't have a young family I probably would have moved interstate probably Qld by now.