crumpledoor

My family moved into the area 12 months ago. We have great neighbours, no problems with noise or crime and it was so cheap to buy our first home. We have lived in far worse suburbs (i.e. Smithfield Plains) and moved from Andrews Farm to here, we had far more noise and crime in Andrews Farm. Now I know there are issues within sections of the area but EVERY suburb has drugs, crime & graffitti and to think they dont is delusional at best. Most of the problems are on the Eastern side of Peachy Road, we live on the Western side close to the new development. People making comments regarding the same houses being $30k less than a few months ago is irrelevant, given this has happend state wide. If they actually did correct research they would notice the the median hosue price for the area has increased in the last few months! Our cars have never been graffitied and to be honest we have left cars unlocked on the front lawn several times and they have never been touched. These are not cheap cars either. Its close to 3 major shopping centres, 30kms from the city and close to Barossa. The only one issue we have is the lack of decent schools but with St Columba college being only 10 mins away it was a no brainer to send our kids there and given our mortgage is so low we are able to spend the extra on better education. I would not send my kids to any of the state schools in the area. Watch this space as this area will be cleaned out of all the low income earners in the next 5 or so years due to the increasing demand for the area (currently 12 people per house looking to buy) and the property prices and rents will increase beyond affordability for the low income earners. Much like Hillcrest and other suburbs went through the same transformation Davoren Park will be the same.