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We've lived in a parkside bungalow in Winthrop for 10 years and love coming home to the sun setting over the grass and tall pines. A leafy green suburb within a few minutes drive of good eating, shopping, and the south side of the river, the kids need only step across the road to be in a huge, tree-lined park. Winthrop is a quiet and leafy place (if you avoid the main thoroughfares of Jackson and Winthrop Ave, and properties that back onto Leach Highway) with large undivided blocks, that provides better value than suburbs north of the city with equivalent housing and travel time to the CBD. The northeast corner of the suburb, overlooking and in the immediate vicinity of Piney Lakes is a much more exclusive and expensive area with larger blocks, mainly architect-designed two-storey housing, and occasional (distant and IMHO rather overpriced) views of the city.