hionlife

Maude is a family friendly community. It has access to good primary schools, and is only 20 minutes away from Geelong, 5 minutes to the ring road, and if you catch the train into melbourne for work, it is 10 minutes to Lara train station. I love waking in the morning to the open space, and the moorabool valley. At the moment the moorabool valley is covered in mist, and as the sun rises it lifts to see the green valley, that is lines with huge red river gum.Once you have lived country you can never go back to living in town. Maude is a great place to live, surrounded by vineyards, wildlife, and friendly people with out being too far from the convience of a major town.

I love to go for walks, and do so along the moorabool river and walk to a few reserves in the area. I find that the Bannockburn is the base town that I use the most. It has a doctor, dentist, pharmacy, supermarket, plus the other conviences such as a great school, a few local pubs and bistro's that serves good meals, and are very friendly. I find when I go up into town I always find it takes half an hour longer because you are always catching up with friends.

I have lived in major towns closer to melbourne, and in rural area such as Deans Marsh, but Maude has the best of all worlds. You can have your seclusion of living in the country, if you want privacy you can just enjoy the space of living in the country. If you want to become a recluse then Maude will let you. Then if you want town, and shops Geelong is not far away; though it is not a bustle town like inner melbourne, and does not have the trendy, quirky cafes.

Maude is a great place to raise a family, and a great place to experience a change of country life. Something I recommend if the glitter of the hustle and bustle has lost its charm.