knightrider10

We moved from our townhouse in Camphill to our first house in Chalfont St 2 years ago.

Without knowing a great deal about the area we where a bit nervous about all the industrial areas to the West and North and the potential for a lot of traffic being generated by those industries (along both sides of Evans Road) but after a very short time where very surprised by actually how quiet and traffic free it is even on week days, most of the businesses close in the evenings and weekend the same as any other suburb.
We are relatively high and have a high set house which gives us sprawling Westerly views as well as Tooheys Forrest to the East, and is enjoyable to sit outside in the back yard or the front deck with a cold beer and enjoy the serenity

The surrounding area is, is leafy green (with the exception of the industrial areas) with several parks and ovals, Tooheys forest, reasonable street scaping and even a dog park. Getting around is easy with the M1 about 5 to 10 mins drive (it takes us about 10 to 15 mins to drive into the city – not peak hour traffic) Ipswich road about 10 mins away and Beaudesert road 5 mins away, Salisbury train station and various buses there is no trouble getting where you need to go.

Shopping isn’t bad, there are several local of shops, one group sort of centrally located opposite the bowls club and parkland within walking distance of anyone living west of orange Grove road and another group on Lillian avenue. At the junction of Tooheys road and Orange Grove road you have the Salisbury Hotel, a café, Subway and a Food works, with the closest Woolworths or Coles either at Annerley which is fast turning into a little multicultural hub, Sunnybank (Brisbane’s new Chinatown with all the food outlets, restaurants, cinemas etc) or Mt Gravatt (very hard to get to from anywhere)

Most of Salisbury is covered with post war houses some great and some not so great, and with a mixed population of elderly, fanilies and young people Salisbury has generally kept the status quo over the previous years however with the increasing number of younger people/families moving into the area and renovating these great old, solid homes (trust me I’ve tried to hammer a nail into a stud several times – they are solid) and some new developments, the area is starting to look the part.
(note: the adjacent industrial areas have almost everything you could want to renovate a house from cabinet makers to plumbers and furniture manufacturers & suppliers to kitchen appliances – a lot of which I will be making use of very soon)

Salisbury is a great pocket of green 10k’s out of the city, relatively unknown and for the most untouched since the 60s