davep

Lived there for 5 years, has been a great place and met many good people, most who come form either Perth or interstate, overseas (UK and South Africa)
Plenty of work prospects in industries up the hill and south, can commute to Perth if you can hack the travel (1.4 hours eachway)
Plenty of schooling and local doctors, unlike the rest of bunbury it is easy to get an appointment for kids at local GP. Hospital is only 5 minutes away and the beach and surf club is great.
Can still take 4WD onto beach and drive as far as Busselton.
10 minute drvie into bunbury CBD.
lots of bush retained (25% of delveopment) local district centre to be built in next year or so, is very overdue.
Lots of money being invested into the schools this year (29 million allocated by the state goverment).
Lot of silly hype regarding Homeswest housing which is in nearly every suburb and the percentrage of homewest is under 1 in 25, only one in every 3 or 4 streets and only limited to fornt and centre of estate.
The rural section (half to one acre bush blocks fully serviced) and the beach side are certainly the best parts and tend to hold good value.
In an nutshell you can do a lot worse than live in Dalyellup,