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Moe
5th February 2022

"I’ve finally found an affordable home in a safe town"

I’ve spent 18 months trying to find an affordable home (house, not a unit) on a train line (I don’t drive) within 2 hours of Melb CBD. I’ve found it - a very solid, high ceilinged, 3 bedder w 2 bathrooms for under $400k, 5 mins walk from everything. And when I need Melb (Vic) CBD, Flinders St station is faster by train from Moe (<2hrs) than Sydney (NSW) Central is from Katoomba (where prices are double those of Moe). The biggest driver of my stress is now gone. Moe is an incredibly safe, calming, open town, full of honest and reasonable people who support all of us in reducing housing stress and living more happily as a result. A friend grew up in Traralgon and he checked the location and house for me. If only more places in Australia were this affordable (and safe), more of us would get to be home owners and be less stressed. I am very grateful. Thanks to many locals who have helped me secure my future, in a town near enough to the CBD and which is also flood & bushfire free. Rural and Regional Victoria is incredibly affordable compared to other states. Moe (and Gippsland in general) also has brilliant soil & rainfall (great for garden lovers and foodies). The town itself is also fully provided (whatever is necessary) without any of the “add 40% costs because of postcode” we get subjected to elsewhere. It truly is a joy-maker for me, after many years of $ydney housing stress. I encourage everyone to put it on your “considering” radar ✅✅✅

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Woodend

"Exquisite, genuine country town 60 mins from CBD"

Thanks so much everyone for your posts. I’m 48 & hoping very much I can use my SMSF to get a town house here (can’t afford the houses) to retire at 60 and rent out until then (in the process; all phalanges crossed!). Woodend is divine. I don’t drive, yet I can be in Melb or Bendigo in 1 hour by train - and wander about safely & happily in this truly lovely place every other night and day. It is perfection. After 25 years living in Sydney (which I’ve also adored, but it is 2 hours any which way from the CBD before you see any form of nature, and nothing comparable to the Macedon Ranges), I cannot wait to retire here. Divine place for single LGBTIQ people like me to retire to alone, safely, with local friendliness (everyone is intelligent and very kind and welcoming) and still know that all your city, suburban, and rural friends (from Uni days & since) are merely a train ride away (in Victoria you get both - in Sydney it can take over 2 hours just to see friends in other psrts of the metro area, much less in the countryside!). Woodend is pure bliss for all ages, and it is “indescribably right” for me in what I plan to be very happy retirement years. I hope the ongoing madness of the Oz property market doesn’t prevent people who really appreciate this place from getting to live here (which sadly it will). It is a place of bliss.

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