Dean_L

Growing up here from the age of 8 into my mid 20's was great. As a child we raced Billy karts down the gradual slope to from around number 7 Forest St to around Number 10. I can't answer for the number of children living on the street now but it was ideal in the late 80's and into the mid 2000's for me.

You can walk out of Forest Street and up the steep Moxhams Road to the main street. The street is private so the residents split the cost of re-gravelling it every now and the once the pot holes get too bad. Houses here often have tall over-hanging trees, some neighbours had issues with trees falling on their property, we weren't so unlucky with our place, until just before my parents moved out and one fell on the carport (luckily not the house).

This side of hill seems fairly safe against fires. Not that the amount of forest isn't a fire risk, just the way the slope faces is fairly good in case of a fire. There haven't been any big fires in Monbulk (that I know of).

I moved to Monbulk in the late 1980's before moving overseas for a number of years around the mid 2000's. Monbulk is quiet, the kind of town you live in to escape and enjoy life with your family.

During the 1990's Monbulk College didn't have the best reputation so I went to Emerald Secondary College. I was associated with Monbulk Scouts as well as a youth group at St. George's Anglican Church. There's also sports clubs in Monbulk (although the youth group kept me busy).

Monbulk might not have many eat out options, by car it is near other hills towns. I can't imagine growing up in Monbulk without my Mum being my stay-at-home Mum \ taxi... lol. If you don't drive then Monbulk isn't the place for you.

That said, I had a great time living in my family home there. I did spend much of my time in other places though, like Emerald, Belgrave, Knox City and surrounding areas.