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Once a suburb filled with acreage properties and at the edge of lower-income rental residences, Tarneit is now becoming a place in which many middle- and upper-income families are choosing to live as the prices of the eastern northern and inner western parts of Melbourne are increasingly out of reach for many Victorians.

By the year 2020, Tarneit will be a major suburb of Melbourne, with a new rail line due to be completed by that year, and in the interim several state schools being built and a local private school expanding to secondary (2011), taking advantage of the increasing population.

Being so largely made up of residential estates, those building in Tarneit have been working hard to create a place where people - families, in particular - will want to live. Of course, Tarneit is not a hub of commerce and major industry, which means the majority of people living here, of middle- and upper-income, have to go a bit of a distance to the CBD. And the public transport infrastructure at the moment is not 'crash-hot', which means you must have a car to get to the nearest railway stations to catch trains that take around 45 to 50 minutes to get into the city. However, don't despair; the future Tarneit Station will be a part of a faster rail link to the centre of Melbourne.

Night-life is limited, but then again, this is suburbia. However, it's not far from RSL-styles clubs, to which many residents of Tarneit go for a meal and/or a nightclub.

Tarneit's close proximity to both Melbourne city and Geelong make it an overall good place to live, with none of the over-crowdedness of the eastern side of the metropolitan area, and no trams to congest the roads. Roads tend to be wide and are constantly being upgraded to allow for better flow of vehicles, and regional centres such as Bendigo and Ballarat are close enough that a day trip to either place is more than easy, instead of the weekend trips that people in other parts of the city must consider.