Bri Abb

We have lived on this street for almost 2 years and really hate it here. The transport links (buses) are great, but everything else is unpleasent. Aside from the continuous noise 24/7 (and we used to live on Burke Road in Balwyn!) there is rubbish on the side of the road; teenagers in the evenings who graffiti fences, and a stream of late night cars speeding through honking horns and shouting. Not to mention the North-East link project which will further negatively impact the area. We really do not enjoy living here and consequently are moving our family to another suburb. Also watch out for some of the estate agents in this area (we dealt with Barry Plant Manningham)... they are really just unpleasent to deal with and only care about your money : (

We are a family of 4 living on Manningham road in Bullen and although I hate to give a 1 star review our experience of this suburb has been really bad. We previously lived in Northcote for 2 years, then spent 2 years living in Kew East, and 5 years living in Balwyn before moving to Bulleen in 2019. Our experience of Bulleen compared to these other suburbs is not good to say the least. Just a few examples, where we live on Manningham road there are small gangs on teenagers roaming about who have repeatedly graffitied ('tagged') our front fence. We then have to paint over it, but the graffiti then appears again within a week. Around 10pm-1am you often get cars speeding down Manningham road honking horns and shouting. When I go jogging at the weekend about 1 in 4 times I get shouted at out of the car window from some hoon coming down the main road (even though I am just going about my business). I catch the bus to/from work from Heidelberg station, the school kids on the bus are *horrible* discussing buying drugs and other things which I will not post here. I used to catch the bus with the school kids in Balwyn every day for 5 years of about the same age and though they were not angels there was nothing like this. In addition, we take pride in our house, but rubbish is continually thrown in our front garden and on our nature strip, I am out picking it up every weekend. Finally, the estate agents in this area are absolute sharks; we bought our house from Barry Plant Manningham (Mark Di Giulio) and they fabricated information both on the advert and in person at the auction. They then refused to talk to us about their error (which has reduced the price of the property significantly) and have forced us into expensive legal action against them. Whilst other areas of Bulleen may be much nicer than Manningham road; I believe (from what I have seen) that Thompson's road may be similar. If you do read this review and are set on moving to Bulleen, stay well clear of the two main roads, the crime statistics don't necessarily show all of the low-level criminal activity, but these are really not nice places to live (not to mention there is development happening everywhere). Moving to Bulleen has been the worst descision ever, luckily we have just managed to sell (for a loss) and get out of this suburb...